The Church’s challenges include witnessing to the faith and modeling a relationship with God amid a loss of credibility due to polarization and the loss of many leaders due to the pandemic.
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Pray for Christopher and the rest of the SCHOLARLEADERS team as we get to know one another and learn to work together. Pray for God to unite our hearts and minds in discernment and passion for Christ’s Church throughout the world.
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We live in Ukraine: not in “the situation” but in a brutal war in the 21st century on the European continent, in a country with a population of about 40 million. We did not invite this war.
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Please pray for this new course on Latin American Theologies and Hermeneutics.
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Congratulations to Mwawi Chilongozi (LeaderStudies) from Malawi, who successfully defended her dissertation recently! She serves as Secretary General for the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa).
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Our final episode of the House of Wisdom revisits the key question of monotheism and the Trinity in Christianity and Islam. To explore this topic more deeply (and, as a bonus, to hear about how modern Arab Christians think about naming their children!), watch this episode.
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What were some of the earliest languages Christians spoke? How did Christianity become translated into those languages, and what can that teach us today about how we talk about Christianity? Watch Episode 11 of the House of Wisdom to learn about these questions – and about early Christian attitudes toward the cross.
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Congratulations to Gerardo Corpeño (LeaderStudies), who successfully defended his dissertation earlier this spring! He goes to Guatemala to serve as faculty at SETECA (VSI), one of Latin America’s largest seminaries. In Latin America’s violent context, he will help Christians pursue reconciliation rooted in Christ’s cross. You can read a recent essay by Gerardo here.
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Has the Bible been corrupted? How can we know? How can we trust the Bible? Early Arab Christians were much closer to the original Biblical texts than we are. Watch Episode 10 of the House of Wisdom to learn how they answered these questions.
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Do Christians believe in one God or many gods? What do Christians and Muslims have to say to one another about the Christian doctrine of the Trinity? To learn more about this key tension between Christianity and Islam, watch Episode 9 of the House of Wisdom.
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Our March book is Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema by Tekle Belachew (LeaderStudies). This book will give you a fascinating introduction to a key figure in Ethiopian cinema from a Christian theological perspective.
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We rattled along the road to a centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist monastery in a rickety Japanese van. The latest hits on the U.S. charts blared on the stereo. We shouted in a mix of Hindi, Urdu, English, Nepali, and Ladakhi, trying to be heard over the racket of the music and the van bouncing over the …
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A letter from Christopher M. Hays, SL’s new President. To give, please go to our donation page and designate your gift to the Ukrainian Relief Fund. A couple of days ago, our Vice President, Evan Hunter, and our VSI partner, Taras Dyatlik, traveled to Moldova to meet delegates from six Eastern European theological schools as …
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These months, we are in transition: I have already started working for SETECA and we’ll move to Guatemala in June, God willing.
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As tensions increase over fears of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, with 130,000 troops and military hardware having been amassed on its border with Ukraine, we ask you to join us this week in our fervent prayer for peace in our country.
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