Today is publication day for my 'The Fatherhood of God: The Divine Father in Fourth-Century Pro-Nicene Trinitarian Theology' in T&T Clark's Studies in Systematic Theology series. I'm grateful to @BloomsburyBooks. bloomsbury.com/us/fatherhood…

RTS Charlotte will be hosting an Alumni & Friends gathering next week in Louisville for #PCAGA. It's Wednesday evening. Details and link for location and sign up are below!

My wife Lisa and I are proud of our son Douglas who has graduated from high school and will be going to @grovectycollege this fall to study Entrepreneurship and Studio Art and also play basketball.

Thanks to @tandtclark and @BloomsburyBooks, I now hold author copies of my ‘Fatherhood of God’ in my hands.

We give thanks for the faithful service of Dr. Rod Culbertson as he transitions to Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology Emeritus. Since joining RTS in 1994, Dr. Culbertson has faithfully served students, the church, and the seminary through his teaching, mentoring, and leadership. We are grateful that he will continue serving the RTS Charlotte community in this new role. Read more at bit.ly/3RO3yJn

Along with @LigonDuncan and Justin Wilson, I will be at the @ReformTheoSem Alumni and Friends gathering at #ARPsynod after the close of synod business on Tuesday (June 9) until 11pm. We will be at Dry Falls Brewing Company (425 Kanuga Road Hendersonville, NC). We would love to see you! You can register below: share.hsforms.com/1ZEjkTH2OR…

Some professional news. I'm very grateful to continue in my first calling @RTSCharlotte - which is to teach and be with students - alongside my other duties. rts.edu/news/news-charlotte/…

This includes an article I wrote in 2020 on 'Catholicity in Presbyterian Perspective': bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.…

A beautiful video of a special day in the life of our seminary. Congratulations to all 2026 graduates!

Please follow the link 👇 to register for the @RTSCharlotte gathering at #PCAGA. Location is one mile from the convention center. Alumni, students, and friends, we would love to see you!

I enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Brandon Crowe of @WestminsterTS on my book Reformed Confessionalism.

Chancellor @LigonDuncan will post on this soon, but these numbers do not reflect the reality at @ReformTheoSem. We are seeing overall growth, especially among the MDiv degree (20% growth since 2007). At @RTSCharlotte, for example, this academic year will finish either second or third highest all time for total credit hours--only behind the post-COVID year when most graduate programs spiked.

There is some discussion about seminary size and growth because of @ryanburge's recent post on this site, and his @Substack article (which has tons of helpful and accurate info). @ReformTheoSem is the only confessional reformed seminary in the top 20 largest seminaries. Ryan's stats are from the ATS SIR and based on FTE (full time equivalent) students. But FTE is not the gold standard for institutional comparison. In fact, Bob Cara, my Provost and a recognized expert in accreditation says: “For grad schools, FTE based on one semester is virtually useless to compare across schools." Just for fun, I asked AI to to tell me all about FTE, and this was its conclusion: “While FTE is a helpful metric for internal planning and funding distribution, its inconsistencies across institutions make it unreliable for direct comparisons between schools. To get a clearer picture of enrollment, FTE should be used alongside other metrics, such as total credit hours (TCH), headcount, retention rates, and graduation rates.” That’s actually not a bad conclusion! Score one point for AI. To illustrate the limitations of FTE as a measure, RTS was ranked 18th in the top 20 of FTE list that Ryan produced on his graph. But we have a higher annual enrollment, teach more credit hours, and twice the residential credit hours of the school ranked 10th in FTE! TCH is the gold standard in determining the comparative size of seminaries and graduate schools. It is the measure preferred by the Evangelical Seminary Deans' Council (ESDC). I'll write more on this soon.

What Is God’s Omniscience?

The same love that eternally binds Father, Son, and Spirit is shared with us by grace. —@DBlairSmith ligm.in/4dO8oPN

This Week on Wisdom Wednesday Dr. Blair Smith, President of RTS Charlotte and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, answers the question “Is Reformed Theological Seminary for a specific denomination?” RTS is not a denominational seminary, but it is confessional. Rooted in the authority of Scripture and the Westminster Confession of Faith, its teaching is shaped by the Reformed tradition while serving students from a variety of denominational backgrounds. Watch the full video at bit.ly/4cGpT3o. . . . Reformed Theological Seminary Wisdom Wednesday Confessional Theology Reformed Tradition