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An accreditation primer for boards

Just an administrative issue? On the contrary! Accreditation touches the board’s work in significant ways

By Jay Blossom

Accrediting standards have recently changed, and seminary and theological school board members should understand these changes as well as their own role in the accreditation process.

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Equipping those who spread the Gospel

An interview with Northwest Nazarene University's president, David Alexander

By Jay Blossom

Northwest Nazarene University has been offering online ministry degrees for years. Why are they now pursuing membership in the Association of Theological Schools?

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Dancing on the edge

Facing bankruptcy, a New York seminary sells buildings, reforms governance, and chooses life

By Jay Blossom , Holly G. Miller

An interview with The General Theological Seminary's turnaround president, Lang Lowrey.

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The theological library in the age of technology

By Melody Layton McMahon , John B. Weaver

Libraries remain vital to seminary education, say the librarians at Catholic Theological Union and Abilene Christian University.

From the president

Lessons from a crisis

By G. Douglass Lewis

In Trust interim president G. Douglass Lewis enumerates the lessons all theological school leaders can learn from one seminary that faced down a financial crisis.

Interview

Board members and the art of saying thanks

By Jay Blossom

Board members have two crucial roles to play in seminary fundraising: Augmenting the development office's information about current and former donors, and call donors to thank them.

Tool box

Teach the governance you want

Orienting new board members about the “governance triad”

By Rebekah Burch Basinger

Orienting new board members about the “governance triad”

Field notes

Intercultural competence: Not just for missionaries anymore

By Holly G. Miller

Intercultural competence is one of the best measures of spiritual maturity, say Bethel Seminary researchers who have been using a tool called the Intercultural Development Inventory

Books

Explorers in a foreign land

When MBAs join a nonprofit board

By Karen Stiller

A review of Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know by Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan. Plus: an interview with co-author Marc J. Epstein.

Changing scenes

By Jay Blossom , Matt Forster

Recent news from the world of theological education

Books

Extra oxygen for your 20-mile march

With an array of new metaphors, Jim Collins reveals findings about businesses that thrive in chaotic times

By Kita McVay

A review of Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck -- Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen

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