The Futures Newsletter offers articles from faculty, students, and advisors on topics of vocational discernment, planning for seminary, and seminary life.

The Call of God Is Not all about You
by Debra Mumford, Frank H. Caldwell Associate Professor of Homiletics;
Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs

Why you SHOULD come and NOT come to Seminary
by Dianne Reistroffer, Professor of Ministry; Director of Field Education
and Methodist Studies

Wading Into Deep Waters: Transformation in Seminary
by Lewis Brogdon (MDiv '05), Assistant Professor of New Testament and Black Church Studies; 
Director of Black Church Studies 

Discerning a Call to Ministry - Part I
Vocation or Call as a "form of desire"
by Dr. Susan R. Garrett, Dean of the Seminary and
Professor of New Testament

Discerning a Call to Ministry - Part II
A Calling to the Learned Ministry
by Dr. Susan R. Garrett, Dean of the Seminary and
Professor of New Testament

When will you be ready for ministry?
Advice from an LPTS student
by Andrew Black (MDiv and JD '08), MDiv and JD dual degree
student from New Mexico