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    The Beauty of Theology (an Advent Call)
    (art: "Saint Jerome" by Caravaggio) [This article is based on parts of the manuscript for a message I gave on "Beauty" at Epiphany Fellowship. On my personal blog and the webzine I run you can find the audio, manuscript, and full blog series inspired by the message.] We all know, as I’ve mentioned before, that there is a potential risk of seminary becoming...
    by Paul Burkhart at December 2nd, 2009 at 09:12 am
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    Don’t be this guy…
    How many of us will come out of seminary, just to relate to our friends “out there” “in the world” in this way? Don’t. Thanks to my friends at Patrol Magazine for originally posting this video. AKPC_IDS += "2867,";Popularity: 2% [?]
    by Paul Burkhart at November 26th, 2009 at 01:11 am
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    Seminaries & the Nature of Truth
    photo credit: loreshdw I recently wrote an article about letting seminary change you doctrinally. In it, I laid out some broad ideas of Truth, doctrine, and how the seminarian needs to treat these things in order to get the most out of their seminary education. In the present article, I want to get a bit more specific about how seminaries themselves can best effect...
    by Paul Burkhart at September 27th, 2009 at 09:09 pm
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    Letting Seminary Doctrinally Change You
    “I knew perfectly well at that time, as I had for years and years, that the Lord absolutely transcends any understanding I have of Him, which makes loyalty to Him a different thing from loyalty to whatever customs and doctrines and memories I happen to associate with Him.” – Minister John Ames in Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” The second...
    by Paul Burkhart at September 16th, 2009 at 08:09 pm
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    Realizing Seminary’s Not for You
    I think it’s time for me to start the site NotGoingToSeminary.com. It’s almost been five whole months since my last article was posted on this site. Much has happened. As I recently revealed in a recent post on my personal site, I’m not going back to Westminster Theological Seminary next year. I’m a young man. At the time of this writing I am...
    by Paul Burkhart at July 2nd, 2009 at 03:07 am
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    Hobby? Or Passion?
    As usual, I’m going to to take the rhetorical back door to my topic. I’ve spent all week moving. I’m moving from a room in the third floor of a Brooklyn Jewish woman’s house to a house in a slightly “rougher” part of Philadelphia with a couple of guys from my church. The place is amazing, neighborhood not that bad, rent cheap, and...
    by Paul Burkhart at March 6th, 2009 at 10:03 am
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    Lessons from My First Semester
    Semester 1 Stats: Less than 4 months (Sept-Dec) Pages of papers written: 114 Pages of notes taken: 154 Pages read: about 1,900 (+/-100) Total pages written: 268 (I produced just over 13% of what I consumed) Ending GPA: 3.2 Wow. That first semester. Semester 2 began here recently and I’m both excited and hesitant. Last semester gave me wrestlings and questions...
    by Paul Burkhart at February 13th, 2009 at 07:02 am
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    To blog or not to blog, that is the question . . .
    Recently, my family and I made a trip down to Texas to see my extended family. My grandfather is nearing death. Every time we see him could very well be the last. There’s so much I want to ask him. What’s his greatest fear in all this? How is this bringing him closer to Christ? Is it bringing him closer to Christ? I want him to give me advice and...
    by Paul Burkhart at January 30th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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    WARNING: Hymns Can be Damaging to Your Seminary Health
    Words, words, words.  If you’re in seminary, then your world is based wholly on words.  Deep words.  Big words.  In seminary you will hear many words, you will read many words, you will write many words, and you will speak many words.  This being the case, I have a very simple suggestion I have found very helpful.  When you need to relax and unwind,...
    by Paul Burkhart at January 28th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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    Confessions of a Preachless Preacher
    I don’t know about you, but I live in a strange tension. I’m a preacher at heart. Every conversation no matter how casual somehow turns to Christ and his impact on our hearts and lives. Every biblical text I read goes through the internal monologue of communicating it to others. My personal blog posts have too often found themselves in the form of grand...
    by Paul Burkhart at January 19th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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