With apologies to Scot McKnight (Fridays are for Friends – but what good is the web if I can’t blatantly rip off a good idea and pretend it’s mine?) I thought perhaps I could bring some order to the chaos that has become the HB by dedicating HB Saturdays to the questions of theological education, training pastors, and Westminster Seminary California. To get started, in honor of the writer’s strike (it’s still on, right?), I’m re-running three posts from March, 2007 on the importance of a seminary education in ministerial training.

Here are the posts.

How Not To Train Pastors

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three

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  R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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