Written by Dr. Joe Thomas Welcome Back to Urbana Theological Seminary for the 2012-13 school year! We want to invite you to celebrate Urbana Seminary’s 10-year anniversary this year! The last 10 years have brought many God-filled moments and we want to give all praise and glory to God! In April of 2002 God provided…
By Joe Thomas This week I hope to raise a few questions about A Common Word between Us and You that will help us dig deeper into our dialogue with our Muslim friends. So far I have praised the writers of A Common Word for their moderating voice for peace, for their attempts to find…
By Mike Shea John 1:15 John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’” If John the Baptist was like Elijah, and Jesus is the one who comes after him but who surpasses him, then that…
By Mike Shea I don’t like people telling me how to pray. So I don’t want to tell anyone else how to pray. But I’ll describe some practices that have been helpful to me lately and perhaps they will be helpful to someone else. When I pray, I almost always make use of the psalms….
by Todd Daly Medical darling one day, death threats the next. What began as Kaiser Permanent’s triumphant story of Nadya Suleman’s eight ‘healthy’ newborns has quickly disintegrated into a dystopian nightmare when it was discovered that Nadya was already a single mother of six living on food stamps, seeking a book deal, and that her…
by Joe Siegel One could point to St. Anselm’s prayer to “know Thee, to love Thee, that I may rejoice in Thee,” as foundational to theological enquiry. We ask questions so that we may understand God. And yet, with St. John of Damascus, we simultaneously acknowledge that “[God] exists, but what He is in essence…
By Mike McQueen “The mission of Urbana Theological Seminary is to provide graduate theological education which prepares people for Christian ministry and leadership, equipping them to love, know, and serve God.” When we chose this mission statement for Urbana Seminary, I was at first a little concerned we’d gotten part of it backward. We say…
By Todd Daly Why so little humility in the academy? In a chapter entitled “Pathology of the Young Theologian’s Conceit,” Helmut Thielicke wrote that Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the…
By Mike Shea As of just a few weeks ago, we do. My name is Mike Shea and I have been teaching Hebrew here at Urbana Seminary since 2001. I also pastor the Community Evangelical Free Church in Champaign. What is a chaplain? I had to look it up myself. A chaplain is “a member…
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