by Mark Hamilton | Jun 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
After teaching all last week 8 hours a day, I don’t have the energy to write a long post. Or maybe it would be more honest to say that I don’t have that much to say. But I have read a book many people would enjoy, called The Bible and the People by Lori...
by Jeff Childers | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
The other day I was reading the Didascalia Apostolorum (DA), like people do on a bright May morning. Chapter 12.4 has an instruction for bishops in the worship service: If, after you are seated, some other man or woman should arrive who is honored in the world,...
by Mark Hamilton | May 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
An important feature of life in most established churches in America today is the graying of the flock. Increasingly, the average age of participants in church is rising, with the age of leadership rising faster still. No friend of the church can regard such a trend...
by Mark Hamilton | May 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Does the Gospel sell itself? That’s how I began this series of posts, and that’s how I’ll end it. If we are on a road alongside of which are exits to narcissism, self-indulgence, and self-promotion, and the Heavenly City seems further away in our...
by Tim Sensing | Apr 28, 2010 | Students
Profiles of Ministry is an assessment given to all first year students who are enrolled in one of ACU Graduate School of Theology’s formation degrees (MDiv, MACM, MAMI). The assessment asks the participants to read several case scenarios and to respond according...
by Mark Hamilton | Apr 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ours is a time in which all the old truths have seemed questionable, all the old habits indefensible, and all the old passions unthinkable. Since Christianity is no longer a new religion and since Christians are often leaders in the power systems of the world and...
by Mark Hamilton | Apr 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
How do we get off the road? How do we join the earliest disciples in their journey, for which a single change of clothes and the greatest possible trust in God was enough? How do we do this together, so that we don’t play generations or theological stances or...
by Mark Hamilton | Apr 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Like many other people, I read the other day about the big church that was giving away cars, big screen tvs, and other spiffy consumer goods to draw folks to their Easter service. [youtube jd-F8Lay9m8] Also like many others, especially smart-alecky professor types, I...
by Benjamin Berry | Mar 30, 2010 | GST Events
GST PREVIEW EVENT 2010 April 1, 2010 7:30am – 8:00pm Come for an in-depth experience of ACU Graduate School of Theology. The GST Preview Event gives you the opportunity to engage ACU’s world of theological graduate education in ways you’ve never...
by Stephen Johnson | Mar 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
I spend a good amount of time these days thinking with students about contextual theology – this notion that theology is enacted in practice in particular times, places, and people. Not only do I spend time thinking with students about these things, but also...
by Mark Hamilton | Mar 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
“What kind of a people do they think we are?” Winston Churchill asked in his speech to Congress just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fascist dictators, steeped in notions of blood and land, full of racial pride and therefore racial hatred, believed the democracies...
by Mark Hamilton | Mar 17, 2010 | Students
Every Wednesday, we meet for worship together in the Chapel on the Hill. Sometimes students speak. Here is a sermon by one of them, Ben Fike, who is the preacher for the Maryneal, Texas Church of Christ. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Matthew 2:1-12 –...
by Mark Hamilton | Mar 9, 2010 | Podcasts, Uncategorized
What is justice? How can we be more just people, and a more just church? These questions seem acute in our time, as American Christians have access to unprecedented wealth and power while so many of our brothers and sisters sometimes lack even daily bread. As this new...
by Benjamin Berry | Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
We know it’s been a long time in coming, but we’re excited to finally launch the ACU Graduate School of Theology Blog where professors and students alike can contribute and interact around a multiplicity of fascinating and significant subjects. Of course...
