GLENSIDE, PA (EP) – Raymond Bryan Dillard, professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania, died October 1 while working in the woods near his home. He was 49. Dillard’s teaching career spanned 24 years, all of it at Westminster. He was a gifted lecturer, and the author of […]

On October 31, 1999 officials of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Churches met in Augsburg, Germany to sign a “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.” The date and location were deliberately chosen to symbolize that a step was being taken towards the healing of one of the major divisions in the church stemming from […]