meets regularly with the student toassist them in meeting their educational,vocational, and personal goals. TheSeminary also requires all incomingstudents to enroll in “Shaping the Mindof a Leader” (LS600), a course that laysa foundation for <strong>Christian</strong> worldviewthinking, as well as “Shaping the Heartof a Leader” (LS601), a course thatprovides guidance for students in thearea of goals and assessment.Special events are plannedthroughout the school year to bring seminary students together for fellowship.Further information about student life is found in the Student Handbook, providedto each student upon enrollment every year.Our Annual Lectureships1. INTRODUCTION TO THE SEMINARYThe Seminary provides several lectureships each year for the enrichment ofstudents’ academic and spiritual lives. The seminary co-sponsors a fall lectureshipeach year, with the college, in honor of one of its former professors of theology, theDr. James D. Strauss Worldview Lectures. These lectures focus on various aspectsof contemporary culture in light of a <strong>Christian</strong> worldview and have featured suchnoted scholars as Ben Witherington III, Terry Mattingly, Michael Behe, JamesSire, Alvin Schmidt, and Nancy Pearcey (who co-wrote with Charles Colson, HowNow Shall We Live?). Every year in the spring, the seminary and college rotatelectureships between the seminary lectureship and the John M. Webb Lectureshipon Preaching. The Webb Lectures have featured such outstanding preachers asFred Craddock, William Willimon, James Earl Massey, Calvin Miller, EugeneLowry, Haddon Robinson, and Thomas Long. The seminary lectures have hostedsuch persons as Eugene Peterson, Walter Kaiser, Thomas Oden, Ted Ward, RobertClinton, Kenneth Gangel, Raymond Bakke, Robert Webber, Paul Maier and DianeLangberg.7
LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SEMINARYOur Accreditation<strong>Lincoln</strong> <strong>Christian</strong> Seminary has dual accreditation from both professionaland regional accrediting bodies. It is accredited pro fessionally by the primaryaccrediting agency for seminaries, the Association of Theological Schools in theUnited States and Canada, also known as ATS. This accrediting agency is locatedin Pittsburgh, and may be contacted at its website, www.ats.edu. The Seminary isregionally accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of theNorth Central Association, located in Chicago (www.ncahlc.org).The Seminary is also approved by the State Approving Agency, Departmentof Veterans’ Affairs, for the training of military veterans. This agency is locatedat 833 South Spring Street, Springfield, IL 62794-9432 (phone: 217-782-6641).The Seminary is also authorized under federal law to enroll non-immigrantalien students. For further information, contact the U.S. Department of Justice,Immigration and Naturalization Service (10 West Jackson Street, Chicago, IL60604), or the Registrar’s Office.8