Announcements - Bible Faculty Summit

2020 Summit Location Will Change

April 14, 2020 By Mark Ward

Friends,

I pray you are well and have been able to serve Christ and your schools during this unprecedented time.

Faith Baptist Bible College has had to decline to host the 2020 Bible Faculty Summit, though they are planning to host in 2021. The BFS Committee thinks it best to keep our options open at this point. We don’t know what the situation will be like in late July. We are looking into other potential venues for housing the summit, including a Christian retreat center and a church that has offered its premises (both are on the East Coast). Alternatively, if a face-to-face meeting proves impossible in God’s good providence, we may hold a one-day conference through Zoom.

So please continue to send in your paper proposals; the proposal period ends Thursday, April 30. Use the buttons below.

Mark Ward
Bible Faculty Summit

2020 BFS Still On

March 18, 2020 By Mark Ward

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.

Call for Papers for the 2020 Bible Faculty Summit

January 9, 2020 By Mark Ward

The Bible Faculty Summit is issuing a formal call for papers for the 2020 Summit, to be held Faith Bible Bible College and Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, from Tuesday, July 28 through Thursday, July 30, 2020. The paper proposal period will end Thursday, April 30, 2020.

Note: the BFS committee has put together a new series of Paper Proposal Guidelines which are available here.

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.

One additional note: Randy Leedy, former longtime BJU Greek prof and occasional attender of our Summits, has made available in PDF form the Greek NT sentence diagrams he authored for BibleWorks. They are available at his website, NTGreekGuy.com, with an introductory price through the end of January. He hopes to be able to offer subsets of the diagrams very economically for classroom textbook use for courses that do not need coverage of the whole NT. Details are at the website. Any who may be inclined to spread the word through your own channels are of course more than welcome to do so!

Save the Date for the 2020 Bible Faculty Summit

December 19, 2019 By 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.

Calling All Successes

August 13, 2019 By Mark Ward

The Bible Faculty Summit Publishing Committee (Brian Collins, Paul Himes, Tim Miller, and Mark Ward) is working to help 2019 Summit papers get published. Paul Himes has written a few articles offering some wisdom on how and where to publish (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). We commend it to Summit participants.

Also, the committee would like to ask presenters to give us the bibliography information for BFS papers that have been successfully published, even in modified form and/or for a more popular audience. We are creating a Published Papers page on the website to celebrate (and promote) these successes. Here are just a small few:

BFS 2018

Paul A. Himes, “Israel and Her Vocation: The Fourth Stage of Romans 11,” BibSac 176 (Jan-March 2019): 35-50.
Mark Ward, “Can We Trust the Biblical Manuscripts?,” Bible Study Magazine (Sep-Oct 2018).

Lastly, enjoy a little piece of wisdom from Alan Jacobs on the difference between a “critical posture” and the kind of scholarship that actually does something in the world—like serving the church.