Convocation is a highlight of the year at New Aberdeen College. This formal ceremony offers faculty and students an opportunity to focus on the college’s history, mission, and legacy. This year’s event will take place on Friday, August 21, at 7 p.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, North Carolina. The guest speaker for this…
The College hosted its first Areopagus Dinner at the Hilton Charlotte University on April 10. Over 175 people attended and generously supported the college’s 2026-27 academic year. Speakers included guest speaker Rev. Tim Shaw, students Josslyn Ervin and Calvin Zappone, President Ryan Smith, and several board members. The energy in the room was palpable, and…
Last weekend I watched The Return to the Hiding Place, a film tracing college students’ role in the Dutch Resistance during World War II. The movie contains a powerful scene in which a German officer confronts and threatens the student body president. The Nazi’s dictum struck a chord: “As goes the will of the students,…
He is currently writing a Systematic Theology as well as a Doctrine of God for Baker Academic. He is the author of Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit(Baker), which won the Christianity Today Book of the Year award in theology and ethics. He is also the author of many other books such as The Reformation as…
Contributed by Josslyn Ervin, Class of 2029 UPDATE: This article was selected for Second Place in the 2025 Cordell Prize competition, awarded by the World Journalism Institute. When Macy Moon Elizabeth Howell arrived on July 6, 2016, she was a tiny baby, full of joy. Born at twenty-nine weeks, she weighed three pounds, two ounces,…
By Josh Pauling, Guest Contributor In the summer of 2024, Open AI, a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), released its latest version of ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, where the “o” stands for “omni,” meaning all. This “omni-tool” can generate text, audio, and images, speak in a human voice, and perceive and interpret…
Both Scripture and biology provide objective standards for understanding our sexualityBy Dr. Ryan Smith “If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you…” From Rudyard Kipling, “If” Kipling’s insight is nowhere more evident than in the news that St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas, fired Dr….