by academyofpreachers | Apr 14, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
Less than two weeks ago, our marketing firm Peritus led by our account representative Charissa Acree designed and launched an advertizing effort on Facebook. Today (Tuesday) she reported to me the following summary: In the era of social media, the Academy of Preachers...
by academyofpreachers | Apr 13, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
The Festival of Young Preachers will be held Thursday-Saturday, January 7-9, 2010, in Louisville, Kentucky. Registrations are now being received. The first one hundred Young Preachers to register will be admitted to this first-of-its-kind event. But questions have...
by academyofpreachers | Apr 11, 2009 | Blog, Classic Articles
Easter and Christmas always bring cover stories on religion in the national press; and this year Newsweek put on its front cover the provocative title: “The Decline and Fall of Christian America.” It summarizes two things: some data from the 2009 American...
by academyofpreachers | Apr 8, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
Today we begin a new web site series: profiles of the Young Preachers who have registered for the Festival scheduled for January 7-9, 2009. Since Caela Wood was the first one to register, she is the first one profiled. She is a student, ready to graduate, from...
by academyofpreachers | Apr 7, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
In the past week, two more seminaries sent letters of endorsement and partnership and the differences between the schools demonstrates the wide appeal of the Academy of Preachers. Beeson Divinity School is the rather new evangelical graduate school associated with...
by academyofpreachers | Apr 4, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
It is hard to report all that happening with the Academy of Preachers: so much going on! Eight of our Young Preachers are engaged in an on-line discussion on mentoring. We have discovered in our first three months of Academy activity that the mentoring relationship is...
by academyofpreachers | Mar 10, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
The Academy of Preachers has announced the following schedule for the Festival of Young Preachers scheduled for January 709, 2010, at St. Matthews Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky. In the days ahead, further information will be available, such as the guest...
by academyofpreachers | Feb 28, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
The Academy of Preachers continues to make steady progress, and at the end of our second month, February 2009, we can report these things: Five Young Preachers now registered for the Festival of Young Preachers in January of 2010 Seven institutions, agencies, and...
by academyofpreachers | Feb 26, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
Today begins the first of a series of blogs entitled, “From the Pew.” Today’s piece is the first half of a two-part editorial first published in The (Harvard Law) Record in November of 2005. The writer is Amos Jones, formerly of Kentucky and now of...
by academyofpreachers | Feb 23, 2009 | Classic Articles, News
Today we posted on the web site the first three of fifteen videos which record the testimonies given by members of the Young Preachers Leadership Team. The occasion was a retreat in January and the place was St. Matthews Baptist Church. The young people gathered on a...
