Pertaining to the Churches…in Common
This article from the Seminary's Beacon provides a pastoral update on the Protestant Reformed seminary program, detailing student health challenges during the semester while celebrating academic progress in preaching practice, catechism instruction, and theological studies. The piece highlights the licensing of five students and reflects on the varying development rates of seminarians as they prepare for ministry in the churches.
This past semester might be called the semester of doctors. It started with a laparoscopic appendectomy gone awry, resulting in an appendix that disintegrated before removal. That put one student in the hospital and produced complications for weeks that slowed his recovery. Then our fourth-year student was diagnosed with mono, bronchitis, and infected sinuses, so we did not see him around for a while. After that it was wave after wave of colds, flu, and one case of pneumonia that took out...
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