Ryan Burge, who is Professor of Practice at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, and who co-authored “The Great De-churching” with Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando grads Jim Davis and Michael Graham, has released an article called “What’s Happening with America’s Seminaries?” on his Substack that has gotten a lot of attention on X. I love to read Ryan’s work. His article has tons of helpful and accurate information and analysis. What he has…A Word about Stats for the Growth and Size of…
Ryan Burge, who is Professor of Practice at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, and who co-authored “The Great De-churching” with Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando grads Jim Davis and Michael Graham, has released an article called “What’s Happening with America’s Seminaries?” on his Substack that has gotten a lot of attention on X. I love to read Ryan’s work. His article has tons of helpful and accurate information and analysis. What he has…
in relation to First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS; Belhaven College (now University); and Reformed Theological Seminary (as well as the OPC and ARP, and RUF) The Presbyterian Church in America turns 50 years old today. We are very young and relatively small in the family of theologically conservative Protestant denominations, but, by God’s grace, the PCA has had an outsized influence in the larger evangelical world from its beginning. Indeed, today the PCA is the largest Bible-believing confessional Reformed denomination in the US and…
Current Facts About RTS (as of the 2023–2024 Academic Year) RTS has eight campuses in the U.S.A. (in order of their establishment: Jackson, MS, Orlando, FL, Charlotte, NC, Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, Houston, TX, New York City, and Dallas, TX), in addition to our Global (online distance education) program, as well as a joint DMin program with the Andrew Jumper Center of Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo, Brazil. RTS also partners with the Yayasan Pendidikan Pelita Harapan (YPPH) in the Center for Reformed Theology at…
1. Holy Scripture1.1 The necessity of Scripture1.2 The contents of Scripture (positively stated): canon1.3 The contents of Scripture (negatively stated): “apocrypha”1.4 The authority of Scripture1.5 The authenticity of Scripture1.6 The…
This year (2019), I plan to work my way through a devotional treasure called Prayers on the Psalms (published by The Banner of Truth Trust). This little book contains prayers meant to accompany the reading of the 150 canonical Psalms. Over the first…
The great B.B. Warfield once said that “Calvinism” (which he described as as “that sight of the majesty of God that pervades all of life and all of experience” and by which he simply meant that system of theology that joyfully…
I want to wish you a blessed Easter from all your friends at Reformed Theological Seminary. Easter Sunday gives us opportunity to reflect on what motivates and enables us to worship the living God every Lord’s Day. Christ is risen! He is risen…