(JACKSON, MS) – July 9, 2014 – Reformed Theological Seminary’s Board of Trustees has appointed five faculty members to fill vacant faculty chairs at the recommendation of Chancellor Ligon Duncan and Dr. Bob Cara, chief academic officer. They are as follows (left to right): Dr. Mike Kruger, president of RTS/Charlotte, has been designated the Samuel […]
Dr. Ligon Duncan, chancellor of RTS, has a new website. Visit www.ligonduncan.com to hear Dr. Duncan’s sermons and podcasts, read articles and view social media posts. This new website will be a resource for expository sermons, articles on key theological matters, biblical commentary, and links to material addressing current issues and historical theology. […]
Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC is pleased to announce a new full-tuition scholarship program for qualified Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) seminary students who are enrolled as full-time students in the Master of Divinity program. These scholarships are made possible by the generous gift of Glenwood ARP Church upon the sale of its church land […]
At least 15 tornadoes were on the ground in Mississippi on Monday, April 28. One of them went through Louisville, Miss., as an EF-4 with winds of about 200 mph. There was much loss of life and possessions. According to Sherry Lanier, MNA disaster response and short-term missions facilitator, a team of RTS trained counselors […]
Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC is pleased to announce that a new counseling degree program will begin in fall, 2014. The primary degree is the 66 credit-hour MA in Christian Counseling (MACC). There will also be options for an MDiv and MACC dual degree, an MATS/BS and MACC dual degree, and an MDiv with […]
Join us on Thursday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m., in the library of RTS/Jackson, for a short presentation on a new scholarship fund in honor of Dr. J. Knox Chamblin. A reception will be held along with music from his daughter, Claire Holley, who lives in LA and is well known for her folk rock […]
(JACKSON, Miss.) – December 17, 2013 – Dr. Charlie Wingard has been elected as a regular faculty member at Reformed Theological Seminary’s Jackson campus. He will begin as assistant professor of practical theology on Jan. 1, 2014. Wingard’s dad, a Presbyterian minister, worked in orphanages in Arkansas and Missouri and adopted him into their home in 1958. Wingard […]
(ORLANDO, Fla.) – December 16, 2013 – John Frame, professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, was recently honored by his peers for his just published work Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief. This 1,115 page volume represents a lifetime achievement for Frame and, if you read all the pages of endorsements, is […]
(JACKSON, Miss.) – Dec. 12, 2013 – Dr. Sean M. Lucas, while continuing his role as senior pastor of the historic First Presbyterian Church in Hattiesburg, Miss. (since 2009), has been elected as a regular faculty member at Reformed Theological Seminary’s Jackson campus. He will begin as an associate professor of church history on January 1, 2014. […]
Reformed Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael G. McKelvey as assistant professor of Old Testament at RTS Jackson. He will begin on January 1, 2014. McKelvey is the pastor of Crosspoint Church of Asheville, NC, and previously pastored in Pennsylvania. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Theology (Old […]
(HOUSTON, TX) – August 26, 2013 – Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church (CEPC) of Houston and Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) announced today a significant advance in the strategic alliance they began in 2010 to bring graduate theological education to Houston. After careful scrutiny of RTS’s operation at its campus in CEPC’s facility, RTS has been granted […]
(Charlotte, NC) – August 26, 2013 – Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) announces the inauguration of Dr. Michael J. Kruger as the fourth president of the Charlotte campus of RTS. The ceremony will be held on October 20, 2013 and will begin at 5:00 p.m. at Uptown Church, 926 Elizabeth Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28204. A reception […]
RTS: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD A message from Dr. Luder G. Whitlock, Jr. on Aug. 21, 2013, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of RTS/Orlando. I want to thank Dr. Sweeting for the invitation to be here for this Convocation as RTS begins to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Orlando campus. He epitomizes the […]
(JACKSON, MS) – August 18, 2013 – The RTS Board of Trustees has elected Dr. J. Ligon Duncan, III, as chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary. Duncan is currently the John E. Richards professor of systematic and historical theology at RTS in Jackson, Miss., and the senior minister of historic First Presbyterian Church (1837), where […]
Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte announces the appointment of Chaplain (COL) Mack Griffith as the Director of the Chaplains Ministry Institute (CMI). The purpose of the CMI is to prepare students to serve as chaplains in military, hospital, and corporate settings. As Director of the CMI Chaplain Griffith will mentor those in the program, will […]
Dr. Ligon Duncan, Senior Minister at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, MS, Dr. Derek Thomas, Minister of Preaching and Teaching at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC, and Dr. Sean Lucas, Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Hattiesburg, MS, teach Historical and Systematic Theology from a pastor’s perspective. Their work from the pulpit and […]
