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Seminary President: Celebration of Immorality is “Ominous”

Jeff Iorg, president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, recently said immorality itself is not a “final step” in a failing society; that final step is the celebration of and support for immorality — which he believes is happening now in the United States:

“The final act of an unraveling society isn’t immoral behavior; it’s canonizing immoral behavior as a ‘new normal’ and celebrating it as a ‘moral victory.'”

Importantly, however, Iorg noted that Christians should not oppose immoral behavior for behavior’s sake.  Behavior is an outward expression of the condition of the heart — and the heart needs Jesus: Read more

Coast Guard Pilot by Day, Seminary Student by Night

Ryan Hawn is a Coast Guard Academy graduate and rescue helicopter pilot currently stationed in the San Francisco Bay area.  He also attends the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary through its online eCampus program.

Within the military environment, such distance learning programs are fairly common, especially since Masters Degrees are frequently required for promotion (though the military does not guarantee it will give you time to get that degree).  In general, like the undergraduate degree for pilots, the military is less concerned with the subject of a graduate degree and more concerned with the fact that an officer has one.

In Hawn’s case, he is able to further his own Christian education, and potentially his career, while at the same time continuing in his professional service every day.