Western Theological Seminary announces two key academic leadership appointments following the departure of Dr. Kristen Deede Johnson, who has accepted a new role as Principal of Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. Dr. Johnson will conclude her service at...
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Student Award recipients! We are grateful for each of the students that God has called to Western Theological Seminary, and we take this time to celebrate this year’s award recipients and the ways God has equipped them. These...
When most people hear the word “doctor,” they think about medical doctors. However, lawyers are Juris Doctors or Doctors of the Law, Ph.D.s are Doctors of Philosophy, and Th.D.s are Doctors of Theology. So what is a Doctor of Ministry? Unlike their Ph.D. or Th.D....
Throughout my three years at Western Theological Seminary, I hovered around a few ideas for the half-book-length final project, trying to write about things I feared. One of the cohort’s core books was Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir. In it, Karr asks: What would you...
School has begun again, and each morning starts the same way for me: caffeine first, lunches for my preteen girls next. The transition seems simple, but what seems straightforward is often fraught with turbulence, as is the case here. When the oven glows at 6:15am,...
