An opinion editorial published in The New York Times, Dec. 13, 2012, referenced R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Seminary, concerning the use of extra-biblical traditions in the Christmas story.

According to the editorial, "Hark! The Herald Angels Didn’t Sing," the use of imagination and elaboration in the Christmas story is dividing Christians over whether such additions are helpful in knowing God.

T. M. Luhrmann writes: "The pope and Albert Mohler are concerned that Christians get God right. They fear that congregants in these experientially oriented churches will imagine God in a way that inadvertently violates Scripture and leads them astray (God might become wholly loving, for example, and not at all judgmental)."

The full article is available at The New York Times website, here.

An article by BBC News Magazine, Dec. 11, featured comments from R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Seminary, regarding the changing role of evangelicals in American politics.

"Evangelicals may well have to learn how to live in a minority position against the larger society moving in a different direction," Mohler said regarding the perceived shift in American politics.

The article, "US evangelicals question Republican ties," also includes responses from  notable evangelicals Rick Warren and Jonathan Merritt. The full article is available online at the BBC website: here.

"How can ministers of the gospel help people whose fathers were bad role models?" asks Jeremy Pierre in a recent article appearing on The Gospel Coalition website.

Pierre, assistant professor of biblical counseling at Southern Seminary, presents several pastoral remedies to urgent fatherhood problems in his article, "A Good Dad is Hard to Find."

The full article is available online at The Gospel Coalition website.

An article published online at The Gospel Coalition's website, Oct. 9, offers a perspective on counseling strategies from Heath Lambert, assistant professor of biblical counseling at Boyce College and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

In "Two Sides of the Counseling Coin," Lambert explains the differences and similarities between biblical and nouthetic counseling strategies in Christian living, arguing that they are "two sides of the same coin."

The full article is available online at The Gospel Coalition's website.

Boyce College professor Owen Strachan appeared in a panel discussion at a recent political gathering to discuss the role of young people in politics.

Strachan, assistant professor of Christian theology and church history at Boyce College, joined several young evangelical leaders in the discussion at the 2012 Values Voter Summit, Sept. 14-16, in Washington, D.C. Eric Teetsel, director of the Manhattan Declaration, Matt Anderson and Andrew Walker -- a Southern Seminary alum -- of MereOrthodoxy.com, joined Strachan on the panel, "Millennials and the Future of Christian Political Engagement."

A full transcript and audio recording is available here.

The controversy of gender roles in the Christian church was the subject of a recent U.K. radio debate between Owen Strachan and Rachel Held Evans. Strachan is assistant professor of Christian theology and church history at Boyce College; Evans is a Christian author and blogger.

The debate, broadcast on U.K. radio show Unbelievable, centered around comments Evans recently made toward bloggers Jared Wilson and Doug Wilson that highlighted discussions between egalitarianism and complentarianism. Egalitarians teach that men and women are equal and can occupy the same roles in the home and church, but complentarians contend that men and women are equal but serve different roles in those areas.

Strachan took the position of complentarianism while Evans argued for the egalitarianism position. Adrian Warnock, a writer and pastor in London, moderated the discussion, which is available for listening here.

A recent article by National Public Radio, Aug. 29, included an interview from R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Seminary.

The article, "The Risks And Rewards Of Romney's Faith Story," features various opinions about how the Republican presidential candidate's Mormon faith will affect the election.

"When it comes to the importance of family and the centrality of marriage, the responsibility to reward industry and to reward thrift and to reward the moral virtues, yes, there's a great deal in common," Mohler says regarding the shared values of Romney's faith with evangelical Christianity.

The full article is available online at NPR's website (click here).

The Wall Street Journal published an editorial, Aug. 24, written by Southern Seminary's Russell D. Moore, dean of the School of Theology and senior vice president for academic administration.

The article, "Student-Loan Debt and the Future of Seminaries," discusses affordable seminary options for churches and future pastors. Read Moore's featured editorial by clicking here.