S9 Ep971: The State of Christian Education: Dr. Mark Young
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We live in a transitional era. Events like the development of the internet, 9/11, ongoing globalization, the rise and proliferation of social media, the election of Obama and then Trump, and now the global pandemic have all had a profound impact on culture including the church and education. What does all of this mean for the future of Christian education? Dr. Mark Young helps guide us this this important topic.
Dr. Mark Young is the president of Denver Seminary, a theological educator and pastoral leader with over 40 years of global ministry experience. Mark holds a PhD in Educational Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a ThM in New Testament Literature and Exegesis from Dallas Theological Seminary. He serves as the board chair for the Association of Theological Schools and is a member of the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education, Evangelical Theological Society, OMSC Missions Leaders Forum, and several other organizations.
Mark has authored several publications, including The Hope of the Gospel: Theological Education and the Next Evangelicalism (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022), One True Story, One True God: What the Bible Is All About(Our Daily Bread Publishing, 2021), “Marriage and the Mission of God,” published in Marriage: Its Foundation, Theology and Mission in a Changing World (Moody Press, 2018), and “Recapturing Evangelical Identity and Mission” published in Still Evangelical? Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning (InterVarsity Press, 2018).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the ROM. I guess today is Dr. Mark |
| 0:04.8 | Young, president of Denver Seminary. This guy has a huge track record. He's been a theological |
| 0:11.8 | educator and a pastoral leader for the last 40 years of with with global experience. You'll hear |
| 0:18.8 | a little bit about that in the podcast. He has a THM from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD |
| 0:24.8 | in educational studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He's the author of several books. |
| 0:29.6 | His most recent one is The Hope of the Gospel, Theological Education and the Next Evangelicalism. |
| 0:35.5 | Mark's been a friend over the last few years. I love his humble posture. As you will hear, |
| 0:42.8 | both of us share a very similar vision for what curious conversations look like and the role that |
| 0:50.4 | humility needs to play in theological dialogue, especially theological dialogue across |
| 0:55.7 | different contentious issues. So please welcome to the show for the first time, the one I only |
| 1:00.0 | got to mark young. |
| 1:08.9 | All right, hey, friends. I'm here with my friend Dr. Mark Young, president of Denver Seminary. |
| 1:13.6 | Mark, thanks so much for being on the show. You're the first seminary president I've ever had on. |
| 1:18.5 | So we're breaking new ground here. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm very, I'm very, stand the honor of it all. Thanks, Preston. |
| 1:25.7 | Tell us who you're your background in academia, education, and how long you've been at Denver Seminary. |
| 1:32.0 | And then I would love to hear more specifically about Denver Seminary. My best friend teaches there. |
| 1:36.0 | I've spoken there. Love the seminary. Love the promoted. So I would love to get just from your |
| 1:42.0 | perspective, you know, what is Denver Seminary all about. But let's start with you as a person who |
| 1:45.9 | who are you and where you been and where you going, sir. Well, you know, in some ways, |
| 1:50.5 | I think it's it would have been unlikely to imagine me in an academic world. My dad was the first |
| 1:57.9 | person in our entire family to go to high school. We raised an average and education was just not |
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