By Loretta Fulton Myles Werntz, founder and director of the Baptist Studies Center at ACU, will be guest speaker for the Oct. 28 meeting of the Abilene Association of Congregations. The public is invited to hear Werntz speak, beginning with lunch at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at Brook Hollow Christian Church, located on the east end of Woodhaven Shopping Center, 4726
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By Loretta Fulton Myles Werntz was faced with a dilemma in 2020 when he was notified that his place of employment would be closing. He was a professor at Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University when he learned that HSU would be closing the seminary. Rather than waiting for a new opportunity, he created his own. He contacted the dean of
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ACU’s Baptist Studies Center is hosting a webinar on Monday, Feb. 21, exploring the topic, “Women in Ministry: Becoming Advocates for Half the Church.” The webinar originally was planned as a run-up to an on-campus event in March at Abilene Christian University. But the on-campus programming was postponed until next fall due to COVID concern, said Myles Werntz, director of
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ACU NEWS RELEASEEmerald Cassidy To help fill a void created by the closing of another seminary in its home city, Abilene Christian University is creating a Baptist Studies Center (BSC) in its Graduate School of Theology (GST). Dr. Myles Werntz has been named the founding director of the new center. He currently serves as the T.B. Maston Chair of Christian
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