Beginning in 2022, when I began research for a biography of John Albert Broadus, until its publication earlier this year, it was my pleasure to spend un-numbered hours with the Southern Seminary founder. Looking back, here are five ways the experience has impacted my ministry.

My theology diploma from Union University is covered with smudgy black fingerprints. It seems that the snacks for our upcoming Vacation Bible School had been piled on the stovetop in our rural church’s fellowship hall.

We not only need help in understanding what our Bibles teach us; we need flesh-and-blood models for how put that teaching into practice.