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Seminaries in trouble

This is true. The Sem here is in big trouble. Moving more stuff online is not the greatest solution. money sucks.

via usatoday

Sagging endowments and other shrinking revenue streams are challenging the status quo at the nation's seminaries, most of which aren't cushioned by a link to an endowed university.

Among the 175 "free-standing" institutions in the Association of Theological Schools, 39% were "financially stressed," with less than a year's worth of spendable assets, a fall 2008 report says. That's up from 26% a year earlier, and the data don't reflect fallout from the stock market crash in the fall.

Making matters worse, enrollments at ATS schools have dropped 4% since 2006, marking the first consecutive-year decline in more than 20 years. The Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) says enrollments are also down at 60% of Bible colleges, which train undergraduates for ministry.

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Biblicism and other rumanitions

We don't worship the Bible. The Christian church would still be around without it. It is true because it speaks about Christ, not visa versa. The Bible in not the starting place, Christ is.

Also, it seems that main function of apologetics is to build up the Christian church strengthening and encouraging those who already believe.

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I concur.

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I think about traveling in europe.
about greek
about the new perspective on paul
about eastern orthodoxy
about pastoral counseling
about sycz's bachelor party
about the fafsa
about scholarship
about money
about no money
about the righteousness of God
about the holy spirit
about spiritual gifts
about the inpiration of spiriture
about the canon of scripture
about the Word
about preaching
about baseball
about fantasy baseball
about music
about la
about guilt
about suffering
about a new cell phone
about pizza yum.

The coming evangelical collapse

Quite an article (via the Christian Science Monitor)

An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise.
By Michael Spencer

from the March 10, 2009 edition

Oneida, Ky. - We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.

Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously antagonistic 21st century.

This collapse will herald the arrival of an anti-Christian chapter of the post-Christian West. Intolerance of Christianity will rise to levels many of us have not believed possible in our lifetimes, and public policy will become hostile toward evangelical Christianity, seeing it as the opponent of the common good.

Millions of Evangelicals will quit. Thousands of ministries will end. Christian media will be reduced, if not eliminated. Many Christian schools will go into rapid decline. I'm convinced the grace and mission of God will reach to the ends of the earth. But the end of evangelicalism as we know it is close.

Why is this going to happen?

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