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On September 11, 2014 over 220 students, faculty, staff, friends and family gathered to celebrate the installation of Reverend Jessica LaGrone as Asbury Theological Seminary’s first woman Dean of Chapel. Reverend LaGrone is formerly an Associate Pastor of the 10,000-member The Woodlands United Methodist Church near Houston, Texas, where one of her key responsibilities was […]

Bringing New Life to Existing Churches: A Revitalization Roundtable with Dr. Mark Jobe Friday, September 12, 10:00-11:00 AM in SH230 The church of the future will exist in urban contexts. But many churches in those contexts are now aging and dying. We need a vision and a plan for how to revitalize the church in […]

August 31, 2014, would have been the 100th birthday of Asbury Seminary’s third president from 1962-82. A graduate of Asbury College (1934) Dr. Stanger attended Asbury Seminary for one year (1934-35). After receiving his graduate degrees from Temple University, he pastored Methodist churches in New Jersey for several years before accepting the invitation of Dr. […]

Dr. Santiago-Vendrell, Assistant Professor of Evangelism at our Florida Dunnam campus, will be speaking at the Methodist Congress for Evangelism in Puerto Rico, August 22-23. The lecture is titled, “Walking in the Spirit: Towards a Holistic Evangelism.”

Dr. Fred Long, Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary, and Dr. Michael Halcomb, graduate of Asbury Seminary, have co-authored a new illustrated resources for studying the Greek narrative of Mark’s Gospel. The GlossaHouse Illustrated Greek-English New Testament (GIGENT) is an innovative resource that will allow readers of Greek to have a more embodied […]

July 9, 2014, Wilmore, KY – Asbury Theological Seminary is pleased to announce a grant of $204,170 awarded by the Kern Family Foundation, the second grant in as many years awarded to support the integration of faith, work, and economics into the Seminary curriculum and culture.  This grant will continue funding the Office of Faith, […]

ASBURY INN AWARDED 2014 TRIPADVISOR CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE Recognised as a Top Performing Hotel as Reviewed by Travellers on the World’s Largest Travel Site WILMORE, KY –  June 5, 2014–  Asbury Inn (a facility of Asbury Theological Seminary) today announced that it has, for the third year in a row, received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of […]

June 11, 2014 In recent years, debate within the Church in America has intensified around what the appropriate Christian position should be on any number of cultural issues. As disagreements escalate, arguments tend to move away from the underlying fundamental questions to focus instead on shifting points of view. While cultural standards may change, Asbury […]

Dr. John Oswalt has published a new book, The Holy One of Israel: Studies in the Book of Isaiah, through Wipf and Stock Publishers. A book description follows: Growing out of the work that the author did in preparing two major commentaries on Isaiah, these essays range from comprehensive to specific, and from popular to […]

Authors: T. Michael W. Halcomb and Fredrick J. Long, Speak Koine Greek: A Conversational Phrasebook Speak Koine Greek contains over 240 sayings, expressions, phrases, idioms, and figures of speech from ancient (Koine) Greek. This work has been strategically arranged into simple categories (Getting in the Conversation, Staying in the Conversation, Ending the Conversation) with each entry […]