Jared Hood, lecturer and librarian at the Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, left a comment here yesterday. He commended his new blog/wiki Bibliopedia. What’s Bibliopedia? Here’s Jared’s introduction from his own blog: Bibliopedia is the most exciting development to come to the web, like, ever. It has bibliographies for various theological subjects, especially for use …

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Michael Bird describes (tongue in cheek, it must be stressed) a ministry training course entitled ‘Discovering Your True Calling’. Nathan Campbell has discovered some video that demonstrates that reality is again stranger than fiction and embedded it in his post ‘If I Fail Greek’. It was the contrast between these two posts that I found …

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I published a transcript of comments by John Piper about the value of pastors getting PhDs a couple of days ago. Dane Ortlund (who has, like Piper, earned a PhD) offers some complementary and complimentary comments on Piper’s comments that make something of a case for the intensive further study that a PhD represents. Here’s …

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Transcript from the video post on the Desiring God blog. Question: Having been through PhD studies, would you recommend other pastors pursue this course of education? Piper’s answer: You mean, already-pastoring pastors or planning-to-be pastors? I’ll answer both. If you’re already a pastor, I wouldn’t get a PhD. It’s a lot of work, and the …

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