In God’s Good Time: My first class at Northeastern Seminary

Posted on June 18, 2016 by J Richard Middleton

I’m happy to share with you a blog post by my new colleague Esau McCaulley on his first class at NES. His reflections remind me of my first experience of teaching a course at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology in Jamaica after decades of living, studying, and working in North America. My issue was culture; his is race (which also involves culture).

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The people’s champ must be everything the people can’t be…You must have missed the come up, I must be all I can be. Call me Mr. Mufasa, I had to master stampedes– Chance the Rap…

Source: In God’s Good Time: My first class at Northeastern Seminary

Congratulations, Dr. Josef Sykora!

Posted on April 15, 2016 by J Richard Middleton

Josef Sykora, Director of Northeastern Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry Program and Assistant Professor of Biblical Interpretation, successfully defended his dissertation on Tuesday, April 12 at Durham University, in Durham, England.

His thesis was entitled, “The Unfavored: Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel” and was directed by Dr. R. Walter L. Moberly, professor of theology and biblical interpretation.

Northeastern Seminary is proud of you, Josef, and we are absolutely delighted you’re part of the NES team! Congratulations!

For more on Northeastern Seminary, see my previous blog post, “Northeastern Seminary—A Hidden Gem,” some details of which have been updated, as well as the seminary website links.

Call for Papers for the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association Annual Meeting in Calgary, May 29, 2016

Posted on February 3, 2016 by J Richard Middleton

The Canadian Evangelical Theological Association (CETA) has two theology conferences each year. One occurs at the end of May/early June, in conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada. The other (which was inaugurated in 2012) is held in the Fall (usually in October), in conjunction with a local theological seminary or college.

This year both CETA conferences will be in Western Canada, giving the Association an opportunity to reach out to professors, graduate students, and pastors from the region who are interested in theological reflection for the sake of the church.

CETA Congress Meeting (May 29, 2016)

This year the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences will meet at the University of Calgary, and the CETA meeting will be on Sunday, May 29, 2016.

The executive of CETA have extended the deadline for receiving paper proposals for the Calgary meeting until February 15. You can download the extended Call for Papers here.

CETA Fall Conference (October 15, 2016)

The Fall CETA theology conference will be held in conjunction with the Associated Canadian Theological Schools (ACTS seminaries), a consortium of theological schools located on the campus of Trinity Western University, in Langley, BC. The date for the Fall conference is Saturday, October 15, 2016, and the keynote speaker will be Iain Provan, Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College, in Vancouver, BC. When the Call for Papers for this conference is ready, I will post an announcement.

NES Theology Conference (March 18-19, 2016)

Remember that registration is open for the theology conference at Northeastern Seminary on March 18-19, 2016, with Michael Gorman as the keynote speaker (Gorman will give a public lecture the Friday evening of March 18, and another lecture during the conference proper on Saturday, March 19). The response to the Call for Papers was phenomenal, with the result that there will likely be about forty concurrent papers offered on a variety of topics under the broad umbrella of the conference theme, Participation in God’s Mission. Discounted registration lasts until February 8.