TEDS helped midwife another new evangelicalism that spanned the Mason-Dixon Line, with brighter prospects than its post-war faculty could have imagined.
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When I was a student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), the admissions department hosted a brainstorming session. They asked for our input on recruiting. When you don’t boast a big endowment, you live and die with enrollment.
At least eight of my friends from our time as undergraduates in the Chicago area went on to graduate from a seminary. Four chose the nearby school, TEDS, featuring a world-class faculty of professors like Don Carson, Kevin Vanhoozer, and John Woodbridge. Four others chose The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS), a few hours south in Louisville on Interstate 65.
