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 done is take the ATS ADT (The Association of…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 done is take the ATS ADT (The Association of…
Today (July 7) in 1878, Francis Grimké was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He was born in Charleston, SC to a white father (a slaveholding planter) and an enslaved mother (of European and African descent). He would eventually move North, graduate from Princeton Theological Seminary (studying under the Hodges and other leading Old School Presbyterian lights) and become the Pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. To learn more about Grimké, read Thabiti Anyabwile’s The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing…
Many of us are familiar with the inspiring story of the audacious German monk, Martin Luther, nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. Lots of us know that one of his great concerns was the doctrine of justification by faith alone. And some of us know that this doctrine has been a hallmark of faithful evangelical preaching ever since. But we may not have ever appreciated just exactly how radical this truth is. Getting Ready to Hear a Radical Truth Justification by faith is one of the most stunning…
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (based Psalm 103/150), 1680 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty is one of the very best hymns (thinking of the combination of text and tune) written in the last three hundred fifty years, and it is no surprise that it is a favorite of our congregation. The text of the song is based on Psalms 103 and 150. In the Scottish Psalter and Church Hymnary of 1929, it finds itself aptly located in the section delineated “God: His Being, Works, Word.” The song’s author was Joachim Neander, the grandson of a…
This day in 1962 (July 5) the famous American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr died. He wrote an important book Christ and Culture and in his work The Kingdom of God in America he criticized liberal social gospel teaching, describing its…
My predecessor and friend Dr. Robert C. (Ric) Cannada, Jr., chancellor emeritus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS), is spending a lot of time in Indonesia these days, expanding Christian education and fostering an amazing movement…
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,…
I want to commend to you the free RTS Mobile App. You can get it at Apple iTunes and it is now available on the Amazon App store for all Kindle devices! RTS Mobile, the official RTS App, is also available on Android and Windows Phones. We are…
Here’s some good pre-4th of July reading for you from Historian Thomas S. Kidd. Dr. Kidd is a professor at Baylor, an expert in early American history and is the author of a new biography of George Whitefield that is due out this autumn. Here…