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Yesterday we looked at the first 2 of 4 pressures seminary presidents are faced with.   3. Pressure from Faculty Publish of perish is the mantra of academia. When new faculty are trying to build a respected reputation in the academy, they may be tempted [...]

I felt like I had discovered a stray bag of coins next to a well-stocked vending machine. I kept feeding Dr Paul Negrut a long litany of questions while his lunch got cold. After the story about how he lost $15mill in a half-hour telephone conversation [...]

Starting 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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]