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Weighing in on faith and life.
B.H. Carroll faculty members, students, and those who support its mission desire to create dialog and stoke critical thinking about important topics which relate to faith and life in this world. Below are posts from diverse authors, whose views contribute to the ongoing discussion of these areas. The positions of the authors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of B.H. Carroll Theological Seminary, its faculty, and its governors.
Trading Spaces: Reflections on My Journey from Fundamentalism to Evangelicalism
I grew up in a small, Southern Baptist church in a small town in Arkansas. I didn’t know it then, but my church was a fundamentalist church. I use a lowercase “f” because I don’t think any of us knew that we were fundamentalists. We...
Churches Are In Need of Qualified Pastoral Candidates
The lack of pastors is driving churches to desperation. Some turn to head-hunters. Others turn to high-risk candidates, even ignoring background checks. In frustration, some turn to total mismatches in: experience, theology, and polity.
A Different Perspective on Sin, Part 2
We must account for the ways in which negative experiences impact our thinking and behavior, but we cannot use those negative experiences as an excuse for the wrong things that we have done.
Supplying Needs, Overflowing with Thanks
From the President January 2019 Supplying Needs, Overflowing with Thanks Sometimes when I write a note of thanks to those who give to the mission of B. H. Carroll, I add the verse reference 2 Corinthians 9:12 under my signature. It reads,...
A Different Perspective on Sin, Part 1
I am convinced that this way of understanding sin has wide-ranging consequences for those of us who want to proclaim the message of Scripture accurately and live its message faithfully. We will tease out some of those implications next week. For now, I want us to think about what this way of understanding sin means for the gospel.
Making Transitions Successfully in Christ
This “race” has two distinctive features. First, we do not get to design its course. That has already been done for us. We simply have to volunteer to run the race as it is. Second, it is not a sprint. It is a marathon, and this means that it will obviously require endurance.
Dr. William Tolar
Advent Reflections: Love
God sent His one and only Son into a broken, reckless, and evil world to experience all that such a world can dish up, and because God graciously offers His Spirit to anyone who will place their ultimate trust, loyalty, and love in Jesus.
Advent Reflections: Joy
We take it for granted that God loves us. We take it for granted that God forgives us. We take it for granted that God wants to be with us and in us. And so, we no longer experience the joy that is so near to us and that we so desperately need.
The first graduation of Carroll students in Vietnam
The first graduation of B. H. Carroll students in Vietnam was held on Saturday, December 8, 2018. Drs. Dao Tran, President of Vietnam Baptist Theological School, and Gene Wilkes, President of B. H. Carroll Theological Institute, along...