Today TGC carries my article on the challenges facing theological education:

How we got into this mess is a long and complicated story. One of the biggest problems is the 19th-century German research university model of education, with its emphasis on abstraction, fact/value distinction, and scholarly specialization. That model is now the only model of what counts as “knowledge” in the Western world, and theological schools are not immune from its dominance. Theological educators are professionally evaluated and promoted based on whether they produce scholarly books and articles (judged by the 19th-century German research university model of “scholarship”) much more than on whether they produce disciples.

I’m honored to be spearheading a new event, Karam Forum, March 2-3, where theological educators will collaborate and equip one another to meet these challenges. If you have the exciting privilege of being a theological educator, consider joining us!