Talbot Magazine: Winter 2024 Issue

From the Dean: Winter 2024

Ed Stetzer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:51 -0800

As the Dean of Talbot School of Theology, I clearly love and appreciate theology and theological education. Studying, clarifying and training in theological education matters now more than ever before. I love Talbot international and...

Update from Talbot Extension Site in Kyiv, Ukraine

Mark Saucy — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:48 -0800

Early last June, Dean Ed Stetzer and I were able to pay a visit to Talbot sister institution, Kyiv Theological Seminary in Kyiv, Ukraine. For the last 18 years KTS has been the host site for Talbot Kyiv Extension program, where our Eurasian...

Talbot Celebrates Largest Incoming Class in a Decade

Doug Geringer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:46 -0800

The word is spreading about Talbot excellent degree programs! While Biola University overall Fall 2024 enrollment is encouraging at 5,448 total students, up 2.8% from last year, Talbot numbers are even more encouraging. Talbot has 1,726...

Retirement Tributes: Winter 2024

Talbot Magazine Staff — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:43 -0800

Several beloved Talbot School of Theology professors retired in 2024 after faithfully impacting thousands of students during their teaching careers. To honor them, colleagues wrote a series of tributes — excerpted briefly here. Alan McMahan With...

Faculty Profile: Winter 2024

Ashish Naidu — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:40 -0800

J.P. Moreland stands as one of today leading Christian philosophers, blending elite academic scholarship with a compelling ability to engage popular audiences. Over his 34 years at Talbot School of Theology, Moreland has made significant...

Shelf Life: Winter 2024

Talbot Magazine Staff — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:37 -0800

Engaging the Old Testament: How to Read Biblical Narrative, Poetry, and Prophecy Well Dominick Hernández Associate Professor of Old Testament and Director of Talbot en Español Baker Academic, April 2023 This introductory textbook invites...

Book Excerpt: Engaging Jesus with Our Senses: An Embodied Approach to the Gospels

Talbot Magazine Staff — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:34 -0800

Smells are potent, in part because they carry connections in our brains to memory and emotion. This is why a scent can immediately transport us to the past. Smell is quite useful. It serves as a warning, such as when you catch a whiff of burnt...

Alumni Profile: Winter 2024

Ben Shin — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:32 -0800

Dr. Gary Osmundsen (M.A. ’06) grew up in a loving home but felt spiritually empty, until a life-changing encounter with Christ that eventually led him to Talbot School of Theology. Today, he a committed family man — married to Julie and father...

Best of the Blog: Winter 2024

Kyle Strobel — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:29 -0800

There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. If I can summarize the call to faithfully navigate these tensions, I would simply say: We cannot choose one of...

Talbot Role in Global Evangelism

Ed Stetzer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:40:00 -0800

Trees frame key themes in the biblical storyline. In the opening chapters of Creation, God placed two trees in the garden: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:9). In the closing chapters of Restoration, we see a...