"..In the Pacific Northwest, settled by entrepreneurs
and gold miners who wanted to strike it rich,
religion has often taken a back seat. That economic
drive still plays a large role in the home of
companies like Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft, said
Matthew Kaemingk, director of the Fuller Institute
for Theology and Northwest Culture and organizer
of the Christ & Cascadia Conference held Friday and
Saturday in Seattle.
"People come here for a job. It is a culture based
off the American financial dream," he said. "It is not
like the Baptists settling in the South or the
Lutherans in the Midwest."
Fuller Theological Seminary formed its Institute for
Northwest Culture 11 months ago, and the Christ &
Cascadia Conference, held at Seattle's First Church,
is to be the first of many such ..."
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SAVING SOUL, NOT JUST SAVING SOULS, IN CHRISTIAN MINISTRY & FULLER SEMINARY NEWS: this BEGAN as a defense of SOUL blog, and it STILL is, but I am also adding FULLER SEMINARY NEWS to this blog...albeit remember that some of the soul unbelievers are teaching at fuller seminary (ie nancey murphy et al). This blog is not necessarily a defense of Fuller Seminary...just commentary on what is happening. Not everybody is a soul unbeliever at Fuller Seminary.
