Fuller Theological Seminary has announced that it will be closing its regional campuses in Seattle, Menlo Park, and Orange County. It also will discontinue offering the MDiv, MAT, MATM, and MAICS degree programs in Phoenix, however the MFT program at Phoenix will continue to be offered. The closings, pending the approval of the Association of…
(By Mark Labberton, Christianity Today). The “perspicuity” (clarity) of the Bible was real to me before I even knew what to call it. It was an experience long before it became a tenet of my faith. I started to read the New Testament just as I was about to enter college. With very few assumptions,…
Interview by Mark Labberton, Christianity Today Of the thousands of people affected by the ministry of Steve Hayner—the former president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship who died Saturday after battling pancreatic cancer—Mark Labberton was one of the closest. Labberton, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, met Hayner while a freshman and brand-new Christian attending Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington….
On Fridays we pray for our renewal partners within our Presbyterian and Evangelical family. This week we lift up in prayer Fuller Theological Seminary. The purpose of Fuller is: Fuller Theological Seminary, embracing the School of Theology, School of Psychology, and School of Intercultural Studies, is an evangelical, multidenominational, international, and multiethnic community dedicated to…
By Sarah Parvini PASADENA, Calif. — Nick Palacios struggled to get his conservative Pentecostal parents to accept him as a gay evangelical Christian for nearly a decade before his family found a common ground through faith. Now, as an openly gay seminarian, the 29-year-old hopes to carve out a similar acceptance for other gays in…
By Garrett Haley PASADENA – Thirty years after an influential Christian seminary in California specifically labeled homosexuality a ‘concern,’ the school has officially accepted its first on-campus homosexual student group. Since its founding in 1947, Fuller Theological Seminary (FTS) has grown into a leading Christian school, with the Los Angeles Times recently describing it as…
Interview by Melissa Steffan Fuller Theological Seminary announced today that its board of trustees has elected Mark Labberton as the school’s next president (complete details here). Labberton, who currently serves as director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching at Fuller, will take over in June when current president Richard Mouw retires. CT spoke…
On Sunday, Feb. 24, ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians ordained its first pastor into the denomination, Rev. Jennifer Graffius, the Director of Chapel at Fuller Theological Seminary. She joins several dozen pastors who have already transferred into ECO, but Graffius is the first to complete the ordination process in the new Reformed denomination….