‘Tis the season during which, among other things, you hear from so many mendicants pleading for some measure of generosity that you might be inclined or able to mete out at year’s end. It forces even an amateur fundraiser like me to lace up his kicks in the hope of succeeding at putting a best […]
THE BETHLEHEM COLLEGE EDUCATION SERIES Every college student at Bethlehem College & Seminary is required to learn Greek and either Hebrew or Latin. If they stick around for our M.A., they will get to study all three languages. This might make you wonder why we have such an emphasis on languages. Some students come to […]
“And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month […]
The Bethlehem College Education Series The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy that there were some in Ephesus who conducted studies that only “promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith” (1 Tim 1:4). We do not know the exact content of what was being taught in Ephesus, but Paul claims here […]
As we have just celebrated Thanksgiving Day, I am reminded of the infinite number of reasons we have to be thankful to the Lord for His amazing goodness and mercies to us. One sumptuous feast during the year is simply not commensurate with the thanks the Lord deserves every single day from us. And not […]
The Bethlehem College Education Series The Great Books cannot save your soul. Only the Greatest Book (or rather, the Person revealed in the Greatest Book) can do that. Nevertheless, the Great Books still have great value in training us in ways of being human, in showing us who we are as individuals and as groups. […]
“The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps” (Proverbs 16:9). As our students near the end of the fall semester, we in the admissions department are nearing the end of another recruiting season. We’ve had multiple Preview Days this fall, student visits, college fairs, high school recruiting trips, conferences, and […]
October 31, 2019 marked the 502nd anniversary of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg. Many Protestants celebrate this day as Reformation Day. Every year in our Omnia curriculum, our sophomore students begin learning about Luther and the Protestant Reformation right around Reformation Day. I don’t know […]
The Bethlehem College Education Series The Christian doctrine courses at Bethlehem College & Seminary are central to undergraduate education not because they are, as “systematic theology,” the capstone or goal of each student’s course of study. Rather, these courses are important because it is here that we aim to form students’ habits of theological imagination. […]