Michael Ray
Gender: Male
Industry: Communications or Media
Occupation: Film Reviewer
Location: Colorado
About Me
Michael is an artist with a background in directing and acting. He holds an MDiv. from Denver Seminary and a B.A. in English and a minor in Theatre from Colorado Christian University. He's been a musician, preacher, artist, puppeteer, editor, and writer.
Favorite Music
The Cars Fountains of Wayne The Strokes U2 REM and anything 80s pop.
Favorite Books
Authors: Steinbeck Baum Lewis Tolkien N.T. Wright.
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Preview free - or buy - the DMin paper.
Church and Chicanery Bigshot John Parlow, who worshiped with Ski at Northpoint Babtist in Atlanta, picked up a DMin at Denver Seminary. Here is his thesis, linked:
Dramatic sketches in weekend messages to increase cognitive retention of the main point and suggested application
by John M Parlow
Type: Thesis/dissertation : Manuscript Archival Material; English
Publisher: 2007.
Editions: 2 Editions
Dissertation: Thesis (D.Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2007.
OCLC: 183071617
Find a church where Denver graduates are serving:
St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Church
2066 Lawrence Dr.
De Pere, WI 54115
920-336-2485
Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary. The school changed its name again in 1998 to Denver Seminary to reflect its growing appeal to a wide-spectrum of evangelical students, most of whom were no longer from the Conservative Baptists Association. This book gives a comprehensive overview of Denver Seminary’s history as it developed from a small denominational school to a major evangelical seminary under Grounds leadership. This statement was first used by Grounds to stake out Denver Seminary’s theological position in the midst of conflict between moderately conservative and ultra-conservative factions of the Conservative Baptist Association that eventually led the ultra-conservative faction to withdraw from the CBA and found the Conservative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Craig Williford, 2000-present Denver Seminary is accredited by Association of Theological Schools, North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and the prestigious Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP). Denver Seminary’s flagship training and mentoring program, started by former president Clyde McDowell, has distinguished the seminary from similar evangelical schools and led to a significant increase in student enrollment since it was launched in 1998. Denver Seminary Magazine, published quarterly since 1981, addresses current topics in the church and ministry and is distributed primarily to Denver Seminary alumni and other financial supporters.
That was from Wikipedia. The current version says this:
The school changed its name again in 1998 to Denver Seminary to reflect its growing appeal to a wide-spectrum of evangelical students, most of whom were no longer from the Conservative Baptists Association. Yet, the Seminary maintains its Baptist roots by requiring all full-time faculty to sign a doctrinal statement that is baptistic in nature. Students, staff, and adjunct faculty, however, are only required to sign the statement of faith used by the National Association of Evangelicals.
According to Ski, who blogged about worshiping at the Drive Conference (hosted by gay Babtist activist Andy Stanley), John Parlow was one of the 8 WELS participants. The photo above was taken at the Drive conference.
1 comment:
- Craig Blomberg said...
- "Dumped" sounds fairly pejorative and inaccurate. And it had little to do with marketing, since the reality beginning with the hiring of Haddon Robinson in 1979 as a non-baptist president was that the school was becoming thoroughly interdenominational/evangelical. There seems to be an incomplete sentence in your partial comment about Craig Williford. And it should read 2000-8; he resigned last June. Our president-elect is Dr. Mark Young, who begins July 1. Please try to be more careful about your facts, and please try not to impute motives where you don't, and can't, know them.
