Yesterday, Donald Trump spoke at the National March for Life rally, the first President ever to do so. His supporters hailed him as our strongest pro life president in history. In reality, he cares little about protection of the unborn. He is more concerned about getting re-elected. Thus he must keep his “evangelical” base happy.
As David Fitch, professor of Northern Baptist Seminar,y pointed out,
“As a parent of a 14 yr old son, I must fight everything Donald J Trump promotes: pornography (via his flings), marital infidelity, mysogyny, the sexualizing of women, in short a culture which promotes promiscuous sex and objectifying of women, which leads to more and more abortion.”
Trump has been an advocate of abortion rights his entire adult life. His past actions and the fruit of a lifetime speak louder than his few hollow words. Don’t be duped by a man who has little or no moral compass. His words mean little.
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Call for Papers
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Annual Meeting
Baylor University
Waco, TX
The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR) invites paper proposals in any area pertaining to scholarship in Religion. In an effort to develop innovative conversations among scholars, papers that create integration between traditional disciplines or broaden the margins of disciplinary conversations are encouraged. Although many NABPR members work primarily in the traditional disciplines of Biblical Studies, Church History, Theology, etc., proposals are encouraged from any field, including Ministry Studies.
Paper or panel proposals on any aspect of pedagogy related to the teaching of Religion are encouraged.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. Graduate students must register for the meeting, but the cost is waived, regardless of whether a paper is proposed.
Proposals must be received by January 15, 2020. Send a 300-word abstract electronically to:
Dr. Christine Jones
Papers will be scheduled into a 30-minute time period, including discussion.
Proposals will be accepted or denied by March 1, 2020.
Joyce Swoveland
Assistant to the Executive Secretary-Treasurer
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR)
OBP #97284, Waco, TX 76798-7284
Office: 254-710-3758 fax: 254-710-3740
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Excited to be Elected to SNTS
Senior Research Professor of Biblical Theology Dr. Alan Streett is the first professor in the history of the Criswell College to be elected into the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), the most prestigious society dedicated to New Testament studies. The election occurred during the summer 2019 meeting of the 74th annual SNTS society in Marburg, Germany.
The society consists of a select group of scholars with a special interest in the study of the New Testament from a first century point-of-view, and they approach it from a historical rather than confessional perspective. Two current members must nominate a candidate for election based on the prospective member’s scholarly publications, which must meet a standard of excellence at the international level.
Streett’s two monographs, Subversive Meals: Eating the Lord’s Supper under Roman Domination during the First Century (Pickwick) and Caesar and the Sacrament: Baptism as a Ritual of Resistance (Cascade) along with articles and chapters published by Wiley Blackwell, T & T Clark Bloomsbury, and Oxford University Press, were the basis of his election. Peter Davids, PhD (US) and William S. Campbell, PhD (UK) nominated Streett for membership.
Founded in 1939, past presidents have included, CH Dodd, Rudolf Bultmann, Joachim Jeremias, WG Kümmel, Oscar Cullmann, Bruce Metzger, Ernst Kasemann, CK Barrett, FF Bruce, Raymond Brown, Martin Hengel James Dunn, Wayne Meeks, Adela Yarbro Collins, among others. John S Kloppenborg is the current President.
Four years ago, Streett was invited as a guest at the SNTS meeting in Montreal. As he sat listening to papers and scholars addressing their research, answering questions, receiving and offering constructive criticism—all in the spirit of commradrie—he realized his own shortcomings. “I was introduced to a level of scholarship that I had never seen before, all brought together in one place,” he said. “These were people teaching Cambridge and Harvard. I sat in a seminar on the Apostle Paul and the Book of Romans … one person would present a paper that would last an hour. And you would have two hours of interchange with the other scholars.” Streett never imagined that he would one day be elected to the society.
In addition to teaching two or three classes each semester on Criswell’s campus, Streett spends the majority of his time writing and researching, and is presently working on “Songs of Resistance: Challenging Caesar and Empire” (Cascade) and several chapters in edited volumes.
Streett holds degrees from the University of Baltimore (BA), Wesley Theological Seminary (MDiv), and the University of Wales, UK (PhD).
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