My friend and colleague Dr. Don Sweeting, former President of Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando and now President of Colorado Christian University, recently wrote an important and timely article called The Pastoral Debt Crisis. It is a topic that should concern all church members. The load of educational debt is having an impact of seminarians, seminaries and future ministries (and thus the churches). 1. Students are bringing historically high undergraduate debt (north of $30,000) to seminary with them, and then are going further into debt…
My friend and colleague Dr. Sean Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Church History at Reformed Theological Seminary and Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, MS, has just made a major contribution to the history of Presbyterian and Reformed denominational life in North America. His book For a Continuing Church: The Roots of the Presbyterian Church in America (P&R, 2015) is the fruit of more than a decade of careful historical research and reflection. It was my privilege to write the foreword to this book, which I include…