by Rev. Linda Tomlinson Berry (M.Div. ’07) Vicar – St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Chapel – Anglican Church of Kenya Public Affairs Director for Trinity Broadcasting Network in Mississippi I attended WBS shortly after the 9/11 attacks, which wiped out my former classroom at the Pentagon, killing 40 of the US Naval Chief of Operations’...Read More
by Chris Lett (M.Div. ’93) Are you committed to the YES? I remember years ago when I was in my first year of graduate school being asked that very question. It wasn’t the first time being asked that question, though. As a matter of fact, my father would often ask me that in different ways...Read More
by Dr. John Neihof The Heartbreak Outside the Crucible of Community My wife and I met Melissa in the spring of 1995. A high school sophomore at the time, she served our table at a local banquet. Her outgoing disposition, darting eyes, and winsome smile won our hearts. Melissa became one of my...Read More
WBS Alumnus Rev. Ghuna Kumar (MA, ’92) recently stopped by Wesley Biblical Seminary’s Jackson campus while on his US tour. He preached at area churches and shared about the work God is doing in his home country, India. Below, Dr. Friedeman relates a story about Ghuna Kumar’s student days and the lesson he learned from...Read More
by Dr. Matt Friedeman “Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.” (1 Cor. 9:25) At the NCAA Track and Field...Read More
by Dr. Rick Boyd The other day I was driving to the seminary on the first day of the new semester and I drove past an elementary school. I remembered back to my days at Stichter School in San Jose, California and thought about some of the things I learned there like my multiplication tables,...Read More
“Thank You, America, for sending missionaries,” Dr. Paul Tashiro says, “for without your missionaries—the ones who came from your nation to mine back in the 1940’s— only God knows who I’d be or what I’d be doing right now…” Paul Tashiro was born in 1933 to Zen-Buddhist parents running a geisha-girl house in Tokyo, Japan....Read More
by Dr. William Sillings Dr. Frederick Babatunde Odutola is a friend and coworker of mine in Lagos, Nigeria. Fred is the Vice Chairman of the Governing Council for West Africa Theological Seminary. He is also an accomplished barrister and philanthropist. A long list of signal accomplishments and degrees festoon his résumé, including providing food and...Read More
by Dr. John Neihof I watched in wide-eyed wonder as Jesus entered the room for Passover. I had seen him in the temple courts on a few occasions. Once, I even heard him teaching there. All of the talk had raged about him for three years. Now, I am face to face with this mysterious...Read More
