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S ome strategic plans are humanly constructed and are based solely on observable activities and outcomes. Others, within the paradigm offered in James 4:13–17, reflect a faith commitment that all of it is based on God’s providential will and grace. Within the latter framework, my Cabinet colleagues (Patti Towler, VP External Affairs; Kevin Unger, VP Finance & Administration; and Paul Williams, Academic Dean) and I, in tandem with the Board of Governors, have poured countless hours into a strategic plan that provides visionary leadership for the College in these challenging times. It is no secret that our enrollment numbers are down, as they are in theological schools across North America. Since 2003 our full-time equivalent enrollment has decreased from 410 to 280, a dramatic drop that is part of a wider trend. While the reasons are numerous and complex, one thing is clear: the cost of a Regent education is hurting our enrollment. The combination of high tuition, rising costs of living in Vancouver, the strength of the Canadian dollar vis-à-vis the US currency, and volatile global markets that are affecting students’ savings have all led to a steady decline in the number of students enrolled in our graduate programs. After carefully assessing the cost-benefit of a number of different strategic directions (including doing more with less, doing less with less, moving locations, and doing nothing), we have determined that the best way forward at this time is to continue offering world-class graduate theological education and to finance it appropriately. We believe that, more than ever, the world needs Christians who are capable of integrating, embodying, and proclaiming the gospel in all of life for the church, the academy, and society. In line with this belief, our strategic objectives are focused on five areas: Streamline our curriculum to deliver excellence in theological integration and formation for academically able Christians oriented toward service in the church, academy, or society; Improve our marketing and leverage our brand to clearly and unapologetically communicate who we are and what we offer to our target audience and to the wider public; Focus resources on recruitment to ensure that more potential students know about Regent and understand the significance of a Regent education; Recruit world-class faculty and senior staff to deliver the highest quality research and teaching, and to run an effective organization that leverages scholarship for the achievement of our global mission; Re-engineer our financial model to broaden and deepen income streams and provide a healthy, growing, and sustainable financial base. A strategic plan requires strategic investment and over the next season of Regent’s life, we will be putting financial and human resources into recruitment, marketing, and development. We have also decided to reduce tuition by an average of 8.6% this year for credit courses, effective May 1, 2012. These carefully considered decisions will put us in a deficit position over this next phase but we believe the investments and sacrifices we are making today will put us on the road to a better future. At the same time, the faculty, along with the Board of Governors and the Senate, have been reviewing our graduate program offerings and considering curriculum changes that will simplify our programs and make them more coherent. All the programs will also be brought closer in line with our core values of integration and formation. We are hoping to announce some of these changes in the not-too-distant future and we are confident that the changes will help us be more effective in the fulfillment of our mission. My assumption when writing this brief article a few times a year is that all of you who read THE REGENT FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN Winter 2012, Volume 24, Number 1 Rod Wilson

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S ome strategic plans are humanly constructed and are based solely on observable

activities and outcomes. Others, within the paradigm offered in James 4:13–17, reflect a faith commitment that all of it is based on God’s providential will and grace.

Within the latter framework, my Cabinet colleagues (Patti Towler, VP External Affairs; Kevin Unger, VP Finance & Administration; and Paul Williams, Academic Dean) and I, in tandem with the Board of Governors, have poured countless hours into a strategic plan that provides visionary leadership for the College in these challenging times.

I t i s no secret that our enrollment numbers are down, as they are in theological schools across North America. Since 2003 our full-time equivalent enrollment has decreased from 410 to 280, a dramatic drop that is part of a wider trend. While the reasons are numerous and complex, one thing is clear: the cost of a Regent education is hurting our enrollment. The combination of high tuition, rising costs of living in Vancouver, the strength of the Canadian dollar vis-à-vis the US currency, and volatile global markets that are

affecting students’ savings have all led to a steady decline in the number of students enrolled in our graduate programs.

After careful ly assess ing the cost-benefit of a number of different strategic directions (including doing more with less, doing less with less, moving locations, and doing nothing), we have determined that the best way forward at this time is to continue offering world-class graduate theological education and to finance it appropriately. We believe that, more than ever, the world needs Christians who are capable of integrating, embodying, and proclaiming the gospel in all of life for the church, the academy, and society. In line with this belief, our strategic objectives are focused on five areas:

• Streamline our curriculum to deliver excellence in theological integration and formation for academically able Christians oriented toward service in the church, academy, or society;

• Improve our marketing and leverage our brand to clearly and unapologetically communicate who we are and what we offer to our target audience and to the wider public;

• Focus resources on recruitment to ensure that more potential students know about Regent and understand the significance of a Regent education;

• Recruit world-class faculty and senior staff to deliver the highest quality research and

teaching, and to run an effective organization that leverages scholarship for the achievement of our global mission;

• Re-engineer our financial model to broaden and deepen income streams and provide a healthy, growing, and susta inable financial base.A strategic plan requires

strategic investment and over the next season of Regent’s life, we will be putting financial and human resources into recruitment, marketing, and development. We have also decided to reduce tuition by an average of 8.6% this year for credit courses, effective May 1, 2012. These carefully considered decisions will put us in a deficit position over this next phase but we believe the investments and sacrifices we are making today will put us on the road to a better future.

At the same time, the faculty, along with the Board of Governors and the Senate, have been reviewing our graduate program offerings and considering curriculum changes that will simplify our programs and make them more coherent. All the programs will also be brought closer in line with our core values of integration and formation. We are hoping to announce some of these changes in the not-too-distant future and we are confident that the changes will help us be more effective in the fulfillment of our mission.

My assumption when writing this brief article a few times a year is that all of you who read

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Contact [email protected] or 604.221.3355

Do you want to rent to a Regent student?

When Brian and Kaycie Burtchett first began renting to Regent

students, Brian was a Regent student himself. Along with the Burtchetts’ children (now five in total, ranging in ages from eight to twenty), Brian and Kaycie arrived in Vancouver in 1997 for Brian to pursue the MDiv and then the ThM degrees at Regent.

The Burtchetts, originally from California, had just moved from working in ministry in Holland for eight years, and found themselves living in a house near campus that happened to have two extra rooms in the basement. They decided to rent the rooms to some fellow students they had met at Orientation, explaining, “Our motivation was to keep our kids in an international community, to have them know what’s going on in the world because we have someone living with us from Europe, Australia, or wherever.” Little did the Burtchetts realize how large a role Regent student renters would play in their family over the next fifteen years!

But first, here is a little context for the Regent student housing situation. The real estate market in Vancouver continues to be one of the most competitive in North America, and this frequently translates into difficulty securing affordable housing to rent, regardless of whether a student is single, married, or has children. Housing difficulties are consistently near the top of the list of challenges that all but a few Regent students face at some point during their time in Vancouver. Enter the Burtchetts—and many other Vancouver landlords who faithfully rent to Regent students.

Some landlords own property such as a house, or a building of apartment units, that they advertise to Regent students. Some have houses with self-contained basement suites or attics. And some want to live more closely with students and rent out rooms in their own homes, integrating the students into their daily lives. The situations vary widely, and all can be mutually beneficial. As Kaycie

Burtchett puts it, “It not only helped our income, but it helped us to know what God is doing in other parts of the world.”

While not every landlord will have the time or opportunity to know their Regent student renters well, the Burtchetts have had renters who became like extended family members. They have appreciated having so many Regent student “aunties and uncles for our kids because we live so far from home…and sometimes [the students] are missing their nieces and nephews as well.” Whether a renter has stayed short-term for a few weeks in summer, or for several years, Kaycie is convinced that “God always hand-selected people who needed us as much as we needed them.”

Regent College needs more generous landlords like Kaycie and Brian who can provide our students with affordable housing. Do you have a property for rent? Contact us today.

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Senior Editor Dal SchindellEditor Veronika Klaptocz [email protected]

Designer Rosi PetkovaWriter Ahna PhillipsPhotos Wikimedia Creative Commons Photographers Martin Dee, Darin Dueck, Theran Knighton-Fitt Printer Western Printers 5800 University Blvd, Vancouver, Canada

Portrait of Regent Landlords: The Burtchett Family

The Regent World have a vested interest in this community of faith that has had a remarkable impact throughout the world for over forty years. And so at this time, a time of carefully calculated decisions that are bathed in faith but still have risk, I would invite your support in a very special way. Your support may

be expressed in faithful and fervent prayer; encouraging our students, staff , and faculty; commencing or increasing your philanthropic contribution; or linking potential students to this community. If all of you who read this publication participated in two or three of those ways, we would not only be

encouraged but be immeasurably helped in achieving our mission of “cultivating intelligent, vigorous, and joyful commitment to Jesus Christ, His church, and His world.”

Rod WilsonPresident, Regent College

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It is with great sadness that we rec-ognize the death of John Stott, one

of the greatest Christian leaders of the twentieth century. John was known to many at Regent because of his close association with the College from its earliest days. He frequently taught in Regent Summer Schools in the 1970s when the College was just getting off the ground, and his support and pro-motion of the school were much need-ed and appreciated.

His background was one of wealth and privilege. His father, Sir Arnold Stott, was a leading Harley Street cardiologist, and personal physician to King George VI. Raised as a nominal Anglican, John came to faith as a teenager while attending Rugby School, through an Anglican minister’s evangelistic ministry to “public school” boys.

First and foremost, John was a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When he was studying at Cambridge University, he clashed sharply with his father because he was convinced that he, like St. Paul, had been “set aside for the Gospel of Christ” and would not allow anything to divert him from his goal. He was ordained as an Anglican minister upon graduation

in 1945 and began serving at a church in London.

He, along with J.I. Packer, was one of a handful of men who led the renewal of the evangelical wing of the Church of England in the post-war period. He developed a parish-based approach to evangelism as the very young rector of All Souls, Langham Place in the heart of London and his approach was widely adopted. In the early 1950s he began leading “university missions” on campuses in Britain and then in Canada, the United States, and Australia. By the 1960s he was one of the best-known evangelical leaders in the non-Western world and was nurturing people for leadership in their contexts, enabling many of them to pursue doctoral studies in leading Western universities.

In 1954 John Stott was befriended by Billy Graham during Graham’s first evangelistic crusade in London, and the two eventually cooperated closely in developing the Lausanne Conference of 1974. Lausanne was the first global gathering of evangelicals and was of enormous significance. The man working behind the scenes, reconciling different groups, was John

Stott. More than anyone else, he influenced the crafting of the Lausanne Covenant, which gave shape to global evangelicalism.

John was known best through his many books (he wrote 49 of them), perhaps the most widely read being Basic Christianity and The Cross of Christ.

For those like myself whose life was profoundly impacted by John Stott, his passing brings great sorrow. I first heard him preach at the Urbana Missionary Conference in 1967 and then was a student of his at Regent in Summer School in 1975. I met him again a number of times on his frequent visits to Regent in the 1970s and 1980s. A humble and charming man, with amazing single-mindedness, self-discipline, and great powers of communication, he was first and foremost a man whose life was “set aside for the Gospel of Christ.”

Donald M. Lewis is Professor of Church History at Regent College.

John R.W. Stott (1921-2011)

I became a Christian through a friend, who had become a Christian

at the John Stott mission to UBC in 1957. I did not, however, set eyes on this gif-ted British teacher until the late 1960s at the Urbana Missions Convention where he was the chief Bible expositor. I was profoundly convicted by the way he made the Scripture come alive, but what left me speechless was what happened after he spoke. The 15,000 univer-sity students would rise to their feet, night after night, and thunder their applause. I expected he would smile and wave and take it all in. Instead, he would sit down immediately and bow his head, indicating not only

that he was praying for his words to be of help to those students, but also that the praise was not appropriate for him. The only one worthy of praise was God himself. I later learned that this was not some false modesty, but something that came out of the dee-pest core of his being. I realized then, and saw again over the years, that he was ref lecting a genuine humility. I never forgot it!

In 1976, John came to teach at the fairly new Regent College. I signed up immediately and so did well over 150 students, which seemed to put Regent Summer School on the map!

I also had the privilege of knowing John through the work he started, the

Langham Partnership International, <www.langhampartnership.org> which provides literature and scholarships for students from the “majority world” to study theology, as well as workshops in book writing and preaching.

Over the years I caught glimpses of John’s exceptional self-discipline and productivity, a delightful sense of humour, his passion and patience in birdwatching, attentiveness to the many people who always wanted to talk to him, insightful and unfailingly gracious leadership, and...his delight in children and chocolate! I echo what many have said. He was the most Christ-like person I have ever known.

Thena Ayres is Professor Emerita of Adult Education at Regent College.

John Stott, the world-renowned paStor and leader who paSSed away on July 27, 2011, had long-Standing connectionS to regent college. two of our faculty memberS pay tribute to John.

Note: In our last issue of The Regent World we published the incorrect birthdate for John Stott. The correct date is 1921, not 1911. We apologize for the error.

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ur 2012 Summer Programs will feature 40 courses taught by 43 world-class faculty. How to choose from such an impressive line-up? We conducted mini interviews with four faculty members to give you a flavour of what to expect. For full course descriptions and faculty bios, visit the summer website. summer.regent-college.edu

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Ron RittgersErich Markel Chair in German Reformation Studies and Professor of History and Theology, Valparaiso University, Indiana

Evangelicals and Mysticism: The Case of Martin Luther

May 2–25

1. Getting to be part of the Regent community again, even for a week or two.

2. It is cruel and unusual punishment to use the singular here. Because my wife and I were poor graduate students when we attended Regent (1989–1992), my favourite hangouts were (and are) places that accommodated a typical graduate student budget: the Endowment Lands, the nearby mountains (hiking), Granville Island, Stanley Park, and, especially, the kitchens of good friends where my wife and I enjoyed weekly spaghetti dinners!

3. A critical openness to the mystics.

4. Not sure what this means, but I believe I should say keyboard.

5. Captain of the starship Enterprise.

6. [Just after I had asked a question of my students.] “You know, Professor Rittgers, that’s a really good question. What are your thoughts on this matter?”

7. I wish I could say that I have some hip coffee shop where I do my grading, but I don’t drink coffee and am too intimidated by the hip shops where it is served, because I lack all fluency in coffee-speak—you know, that foreign language you have to use to order a cup of joe. So I grade in my office, sipping water, usually taking frequent breaks in order to maintain a clear head and a charitable spirit.

8. “A theologian is one who prays, and one who prays is a theologian.” (Evagrius of Pontus)

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Iwan Russell-JonesAssociate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Head of Christianity and the Arts Program, Regent College

Image and Word: Theological Reflections on Media and Culture

May 28–June 8

1. I’ve no idea—I’ve never done it before. But I’m told there’s a good chance the sun will shine.

2. It’s all still very new to me. But I love the walk along Jericho Beach with its views across to North Vancouver and the downtown area. Stunning.

3. A renewed desire to engage critically and theologically with our culture.

4. All three of the above.

5. Engine driver—steam, of course.

6. What does the Queen like to watch on TV?

7. I don’t believe there is such.

8. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbour as yourself.

Faculty Answers

The Questions1. Best thing about teaching at Regent in the summer?

2. Your favourite Vancouver hangout?

3. One thing you want people to take away from your course?

4. Pencil, pen, or keyboard?

5. Your dream career when you were five?

6. The quirkiest question a student has ever asked you?

7. Your ideal setting for marking papers?

8. Words of wisdom for someone studying theology for the first time?

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1. Christian theological students and colleagues.

2. I am tempted to say the beach, but I can’t abide sand in my shoes.

3. The willingness to try (1) visiting patients on a locked ward of a psychiatric hospital without breaking into a cold sweat; (2) sitting with someone in distress from symptoms of mental illness without fleeing; (3) praying with and for them with compassion but without fear or pity; and (4) shining the light of Christ into their darkest corners without offering platitudes.

4. For writing in my prayer journal, personal letters, documents, and for marking papers I use a pen: Uniball roller in blue .5 mm. For making notes in my Bible and other books, I use a pencil: mechanical .7 mm #2 lead. For my own articles, books, lectures, and sermons: keyboard. Favourite software: Nota Bene Scholar’s Workstation and Accordance Bible Software.

5. Being a female, I was not shaped to expect or imagine a career when I was five, though I do remember wanting to marry Davy Jones, lead singer of the Monkees. I thank the Lord he spared me this. At age ten I wanted to be a mother of four children and drive carpool all day. While I was blessed with two children, the Lord shielded me from the two extra and the carpool. At age twelve I announced my intention never to go to college. The Lord

had other plans for me. At age twenty-one, I handed in my last undergraduate paper and vowed never to write papers again. But the Lord steered me in a different direction—nine years of graduate school. I now pray that the Lord will bless me with the health to write papers until he takes me home. The Lord leads us down paths we cannot begin to imagine when we are only five.

6. One question that took my breath away was after a lecture I gave at a secular university, my own Alma Mater. A student asked: “How do you pray?” Apparently he had no religious training whatsoever. I suggested he might start with the Psalms. When the blank stare turned to a look of complete confusion, I realized that this young man simply did not know what the Psalms were. He said that he did not own a Bible. This was an American-born undergraduate at an elite institution of higher learning, and must have come from a very privileged background. Astounding.

7. A desk with lots of light. My eyes are like Leah’s: weak.

8. Theological study is the intellectual discipline of setting forth Christian teaching for the church and for the world. Therefore, it will entail loving God with the mind as well as with the heart. St. Anselm of Canterbury (an eleventh-century monk) said that theological study is “faith seeking understanding.” It never would have occurred to Anselm that one could study theology apart from the life of prayer, praise, and reading Scripture. Two centuries later, the Dominican priest St. Thomas Aquinas offered the following: “For sacra doctrina [literally ‘holy teaching’] is food and drink because it nourishes and satisfies the soul.” Anselm’s dictum and Thomas’s view of theological study may no longer be taken for granted, but they still remain true. Apart from a disciplined integration with worship, theological study becomes vanity and striving after the wind.

Phil LongProfessor of Old Testament, Regent College

Archaeological Discoveries and the Bible

May 21–25

1. The great students from all kinds of places, the relaxed atmosphere, the beautiful surroundings, and the (sometimes) fabulous weather.

2. Lynn Creek or one of the local rivers, with flyrod in hand.

3. Excitement about how the study of archaeology can add contour and colour to our understanding of the Bible.

4. Keyboard, unless a paintbrush is one of the options (and no, I’m not talking about painting houses).

5. To be a naturalist (not naturist!) or an artist.

6. “Dr. Long, what would it take to make you dogmatic?”

7. I’m tempted to say the beach, or floating in a canoe off the beach, or beside a roaring fire where heresy can be quickly eradicated, but the truth is, my desk is the best place—I like to focus.

8. Remember it’s not just about learning about God (though it certainly is that); it’s about encountering God in his word and amongst his people.

Kathryn greene-McCreightAssociate Priest, St. John’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut

Darkness is My Only Companion: Pastoral Care for the Mentally Ill and their Loved Ones

May 7–18

Get to know more of our faculty by attending a free Evening Public Lecture!

www.regent-college.edu/lectures

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Pastors’ Conference Overflow—Spiritual Rhythms and Practices that Draw from Christ’s Fullnessspeakers May 1–4 Bruce Hindmarsh, Darrell Johnson, and Susan Phillipshost Ross Hastings

For so many pastors in our media-saturated and frenetic culture, “running on empty” seems like the inescapable norm. The demands to produce fresh sermons week after week, to equip and to lead in visionary ways, to counsel wisely, and endless other responsibilities reduce us to a spotty spirituality and to sporadic fullness at best. This conference will help pastors gain new or renewed awareness of rhythms and practices that can maintain spiritual, emotional, and bodily health, especially when practised in the way of the gospel and grace, in union with Christ, and by contemplation of Christ.

We are very pleased to announce a new pa r tne r sh ip w i th

Advisors with Purpose who will offer the College’s friends and supporters with free, confidential, and no-strings-attached estate planning advice.

Advisors with Purpose brings together Christian financial planners, stock brokers, chartered accountants, mortgage brokers, and lawyers who are all committed to the integration of sound financial practices with biblical principles.

This new partnership gives current and potential donors access to inde-pendent, professional, and personal-ized advice, without any obligation to give, and without the direct involve-ment of Regent College. This has two

important advantages for the donor. First, this is an excellent opportu-

nity to learn more about how estate planning works, and how to minimize taxes through your will. And second, this arrangement guarantees the con-fidentiality and independence that are necessary to make the decisions about estate planning that best match the values and convictions of each individual. As a donor, you can take advantage of these resources at no cost and with no obligation to place Regent in your will.

If you are interested in a free telephone consultation with an estate specialist from Advisors with Purpose, we can make the necessary arrangements for you. Please con-

tact Richard Thompson, Director of Donor Relations, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 1.800.663.8664 ext. 314. You can also contact Advisors with Purpose directly, by calling Greta Luimes toll free at 1.866.336.3315 or by emailing her at [email protected].

Will the legacy I leave reflect the life that I have sought to live?Leaving a will is a great gift to loved ones—saving the stress of complicated paperwork and legal issues during a difficult time. Leaving a bequest gift to Regent College is a wonderful legacy statement that reflects your belief in Regent’s mission to cultivate intelligent, vigorous, and joyful commitment to Jesus Christ, His church, and His world.

an Exciting New Partnership with advisors with Purpose

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Conference on aging The Next Great Challenge: Thinking Together about Agingspeakers May 18—19 Margaret Somerville, Maxine Hancock, James M. Houston, and J.I. Packer

More people are living longer today than in any other time in history. Seniors are the fastest-growing age group in North America. Yet neither church nor culture seems adequately prepared to face the needs, the costs, and the moral consequences of this “grey tsunami.” Join one of Canada’s leading public intellectuals and three of Regent’s own gifted and beloved scholars as they think about the implications and the opportunities that this next great challenge offers us.

www.regent-college.edu/legacy

Two Conferences you Don’t Want to Miss

Register online on the conference websites or call 604.224.3245, or 1.800.663.8664.Special rates available for Regent students, alumni, spouses, and seniors.

Register before March 16 and saveconferences.regent-college.edu/pastors

Register before april 20 and saveconferences.regent-college.edu/aging

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Carolyn Watts (MCS Candidate) is the winner of Dalhousie University’s prestigious Christopher J. Coulter Young Alumnus of the Year Award. Carolyn, an obstetrician/gynecologist, was recognized for her service in rural Afghanistan, where she spent over four years training local nurses and providing medical and surgical care in a mud-brick hospital

without running water. Having returned to Canada and given up her medical career because of illness, Carolyn is now enrolled part-time at Regent, working toward an MCS while mentoring and writing out of a passion for helping others live in the freedom Christ offers despite challenging circumstances. Her thoughts on “longing and life and the joy that seeps into places of brokenness” can be read at hearingtheheartbeat.com.

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Preston Manning Named Senior Fellow of Marketplace InstituteVeteran Canadian politician Preston Manning has agreed to serve as a Senior Fellow of the Marketplace Institute (MI) at Regent College, effective January 1, 2012.

As a Senior Fellow, Manning will work on the development and communication of faith-informed approaches to political leadership and public policy. He will mentor interns, deliver lectures, participate in classes and seminars, and contribute research, writing, and case studies that advance new approaches to the intersection of faith with democratic governance, the market economy, pluralism and multiculturalism, science and technology, and environmental stewardship.

Preston Manning’s first official visit to the College took place on January 23–25, and included an evening public lecture entitled “Bringing Faith to Bear on the Public Issues of Our Time.” Mary Polak, BC Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, delivered a response, while Paul Williams, Executive Director of the MI, introduced the speakers and facilitated the Q & A.

You can watch a video recording of the lecture from our Facebook page. Stay tuned for a full interview with Preston Manning in the next issue of The Regent World.

Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh has b e e n a p p o i n t e d a s t h e incoming President of the American Society of Church History. The appointment began on January 1, 2012, and finishes on December 31, 2014, and includes one year as President-Elect and another

year as Past-President. Dr. Hindmarsh’s responsibilities include planning the program for the 2013 annual meeting in New Orleans, chairing the council and executive committee, providing the presidential address to the society in 2014, and chairing the nominating committee in his final year.

November 2011 marked the launch of “Theolog,” the new catalogue that incorporates the library holdings of all four theological colleges at UBC: Regent College, Carey Theological College, the Vancouver School of Theology, and St. Mark’s College. The four colleges, which are independent institutions, have formed a consortium that represents their three libraries: the John Richard Allison Library (Regent and Carey), the MacMillan Theological Library (VST), and the Dr. John Micallef Memorial Library (St. Mark’s).

Alex Abecina (MCS Candidate) will have his MCS thesis, entitled “Time a nd Sacramenta l it y in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium,” published by the Early Christian Studies Monograph Series, St. Paul’s Publications, Sydney, in 2012. Alex’s thesis supervisor is Dr. Hans Boersma.

In the Beijing airport last November, President Rod Wilson bumped into Stan Riegl, one of the first four students to begin their studies at Regent College back in 1970. Stan currently provides pharmacy service on a contract basis for hospitals and retail stores in need of substitutes.

Theolog: a new shared catalogue for the libraries of the theological colleges at UBC

Three of the colleges had already been sharing a catalogue for a number of years; it was the addition of St. Mark’s College, the Catholic graduate school, that prompted the launch of the new catalogue.

A search of the new catalogue will access over 200,000 records, ensuring a quick and easy review of materials in all three libraries. Students, faculty, and staff at all four colleges have borrowing privileges at the consortium libraries. Though the libraries work together and seek to streamline systems, they continue to maintain their own registration, library cards, and borrowing privileges.

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Basic Christianity John Stott

This classic work has sold over 2.5 million copies. John Stott first defends the basic claims of Christianity and then defines the proper outworkings of those main beliefs in the daily lives of believers.

Call to Christian Leadership John Stott

Paul teaches that the church is the new humanity that God is creating. This series includes a detailed study of the text with some reflection on its relevance

to contemporary questions of the church’s unity, lifestyle, and mission.

Introducing the Langham PartnershipJohn Stott

John Stott, founder of the Langham Partnership, and Chris Wright, International Director, discuss the vision of this partnership which supports the growth and mission of churches in the “majority world.”

God’s World, God’s Word, and God’s Mission: Reading the Whole Bible For MissionChristopher Wright

Can we read the whole Bible from a missional perspective? This course explores the biblical roots of Christian mission, seeing especially how the Old Testament vision for the people of God and the future of the nations shaped the New Testament concept

and practice of mission. Chris Wright is the International Director of Langham Partnership International.

The Radical DiscipleJohn Stott

In his last book, John Stott explores eight aspects of Christian discipleship that are too often neglected and yet deserve to be taken seriously: non-conformity,

Christ-likeness, maturity, creation-care, simplicity, balance, dependence, and death.

The Incomparable ChristJohn Stott

John Stott offers a vision of Christ drawn from Scripture, history, and the stories of individual men and women from four distinct

aspects: original, ecclesiastical, influential, and eternal.

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