The Right Stuff: What it takes to start a seminary
4Starting a club is easy. Any third-grader can do it (and usually are the only ones who do; well, them and redneck Southerners who wear sheets and spell everything with a K). All you need for a club is a secret handshake, a tree-fort facility, [...]
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4 Reasons Why Seminaries Exist
Dr Paul Negrut was instrumental in starting Emmanuel University & Seminary in Oradea, Romania. It started with 50 students meeting secretly in the forest during the oppressive iron fist of Communism. As the iron curtain rusted and disintegrated in 1989, the thriving seminary simply popped [...]
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“Start a Seminary” Um, ok.
My lunch with Dr Paul Negrut last week jumped up a rung from inspiring to frightening when, mid mouthful of pasta, he challenged me to start a seminary, and to do so soon. Ok, sure; and is there anything else I should do, like plant a [...]
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Impromptu Prompting: The Spirit’s help in persecution
A member of our flock once invited a fellow believer to visit our church. The reply was an interesting question: “Does the pastor use notes to preach” “Well, yes he does.” [I actually preach from an iPad!] “Oh, then I won’t listen to him, as [...]
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Call me Paul: Meet Sir/Rev/Dr Negrut
My 5 yr old boy wanted to know where the knight’s armor was. I wanted know, do I call him Sir Paul, Rev. Dr. Negrut, or Mr. President? Though he has served as president of the Romanian Baptist Union, is the president of a university, [...]
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Speed Bump Syndrome: The Spiritual Discipline of Staying Out the Way
Some Christians’ vocation is to be a gratuitous speed bump on any and every ministry freeway they stumble upon. Like barnacles on a hull they latch onto any nuance they can disagree with, hoping their minuscule interference can curb the inertia of another’s ministry. Anyone who has [...]
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Friendly Fire: Don’t shoot the sheep
During the Persian Gulf War, on April 14, 1994, while flying their US F-15′s over the smoking wreckage of two helicopter carcasses they had just created using Sidewinder missiles, Lt. May radioed his wingman Lt. Wickson with chillingly inappropriate levity, “Stick a fork in them, they’re [...]
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Guest Post: Why Orthodoxy Must Come Before Orthopraxis
Gareth Palmer is a seminoid who resides in South Africa, teaches high school, studies theology part-time, and serves tirelessly in his local church. He has a penchant for pogontrophe (beard art), and has never been accused of succumbing to herd mentality. It’s a privilege to know him [...]
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