The Bible Faculty Summit Committee (Jeff Straub, Phil Brown, Ken Rathbun, Kevin Oberlin, Larry Oats, and Mark Ward) has come to the difficult decision that we must cancel the BFS for 2020.

We plead COVID-19.

The committee explored using Zoom, considered inviting pastors to listen in, and spoke to presenters to solicit their perspectives. But the best things about the BFS are difficult or even impossible on Zoom: open and expert feedback (and/or pushback!), fellowship with other PhD-level Bible teachers, and the opportunity for ice cream are all currently beyond its capabilities. As with church gatherings, the lockdown has helped clarify and elevate the value of face-to-face meeting.

And in God’s good providence, Faith Baptist Bible College has offered to facilitate such a meeting on July 27–29, 2021. Mark your calendars; we hope to see you there.

The Bible Faculty Summit committee feels it is too early to make a decision about any effects the Covid-19 outbreak may have upon the 2020 Summit. Committee member Ken Rathbun, a vice-president at our host school for this coming summer, concurs with the rest of the committee.

So this is a reminder that the the paper proposal period for the 2020 Summit will end Thursday, April 30, 2020. Please continue sending in proposals.

A few other notes:

• The Summit committee has not established a theme: we want to hear what you are working on.
• Your paper need not be completed till 24 hours prior to your delivering it.
• This year we will again have a publications committee working to help the best papers get published.

If you have a paper proposal which might lend itself well to a response from another participant, please contact Mark Ward.

The 2020 Bible Faculty Summit will be held Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, from Tuesday, July 28 through Thursday, July 30.

The paper proposal period will officially open January 1, 2020, and end Thursday, April 30, 2020.