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Shades of Faithfulness

The new Reformed Theological Seminary Ministry & Leadership magazine is out (in print and digital). Mine got to the mailbox yesterday evening. RTS friends: be on the lookout for yours. One of my favorite articles is this one: Shades of Faithfulness. Dave Veldkamp tells about the official RTS colors being named for Bob Bailey (“RTS Bailey Burgundy’), and Polly McReynolds Stone (“RTS McReynolds Stone Grey”). I got to know Amanda Bailey soon after coming to Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson in 1990. Amanda was a regular auditor of courses, and she took several…

When singers cease to sing

Thank you to everyone who has been so kind to our family in the wake of the loss of our matriarch, Shirley Duncan, our beloved mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. Several of you have asked for the text of the sonnet that I quoted, written by my son, Jennings. Here it is. The sonnet is about a group of Singers singing together for the last time, and he wrote it just before his graduation from Mississippi State University, and right before his final time singing with the Mississippi State Singers (he and his roommate Eli Denson have set it to music, by the way). I liked it, and related to it, the very first time I read it, but in the wake of my mother’s death, the lines that especially caught my attention and landed in a different way are “And so…

A Quick Update on RTS Jackson in the midst of the…

So many of you have written or texted me asking how the seminary is doing in Jackson (because you have seen the national news), that I thought that I ought to give a brief report. Short answer: by God’s grace, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson has been able to begin the semester and continue classes on campus through the area flooding and through the City of Jackson water problems. He is the situation. The heavy flooding we have experienced in the Jackson metro area contributed to a failure at the main water treatment facility in the city. Bottom line: water pressure is low or non-existent across much of the city (I understand that west and south Jackson are especially impacted), and the all the water is unsafe to drink (or even to brush your teeth with). We remain on a boil…

Theology of the Westminster Standards

I’m recording a new course for Reformed Theological Seminary, Global Education: The Theology of the Westminster Standards. Here’s the outline: Class Hour 1 Introduction to Background of the Westminster AssemblyClass Hour 2 A Case for ConfessionalismClass Hour 3 WCF Chapter 1 ScriptureClass Hour 4 WCF Chapter 2 God and the Trinity Class Hour 5 WCF Chapters 3 & 5 God’s Eternal Decree and ProvidenceClass Hour 6 WCF Chapter 4 CreationClass Hour 7 WCF Chapter 6 & 9 Fall and Sin and Free WillClass Hour 8 WCF Chapter 7 God’s…