Registration is now open for the Origins Conference being held at Brookes Bible College, St Louis, MO July 22–23. Go to this link on the Origins 2024 website in order to register. We recommend arriving on Sunday July 21. The conference also includes an optional field trip on Wednesday July 24 for those interested and able to stay for it. The website also provides information in regard to lodging.
Dr. Robert Cole presented the topic “The Biblical Theology of מין/’Created Kind’ in the Hebrew Bible” for our online CTS Spring Symposium 2024 on Thursday, March 21. Sixteen people logged on to participate in the symposium. For those who could not join us, the video for the symposium is available at the following link. In addition an unedited text of the Chat for the symposium is available in a TXT document.
We plan to offer another online symposium in the Fall. Please watch for announcements on our CTS website (Blog) as well as for our occasional MailChimp emails providing information about such events.
Hi, everyone!
Sitting at our breakfast table and looking out the window at our backyard, watching the robins hopping around our silver maple doing their thing, I am reminded of that old saying, “The early bird catches the worm.” Well, it’s time to remind you all to be early birds and submit your proposals for the 2024 Origins Conference. The deadline for submissions is March 31 and the instructions for writing your proposals are at this link.
You’ll be getting something a lot better than robins get. You’ll be getting the opportunity—subject to editorial board review—to present your ideas to the creation community gathered for the 2024 Origins Conference. And subsequently, the possibility that, after your papers have been peer-reviewed, to have them published in the Journal of the Creation Theology Society 3.
So, what are you waiting for? There’s room for only so many presentations at the conference. So, be that early bird and get your proposal in!
Dr. Boyd
Steven W. Boyd, M.S., Th.M., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Executive Editor of the Creation Theology Society;
Research Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages;
Director of the Cataclysm Chronology Research Group
Dr. Bob Cole (CTS board member) will present The Biblical Theology of מין/Created Kind in the Hebrew Bible as the topic in our CTS Spring Symposium 2024. Mark the date and time in your calendar: Thursday, March 21, 8:00 PM (EST).
The symposium will be conducted on ZOOM (link plus pass code 980922). You may invite interested friends by giving them the information directly or refer them to this blog post. Please do not publish this information on any other website or on social media.
Please register. For what? For the annual Origins Conference meeting at Cedarville University in Cedarville, OH, Saturday, July 15. Registration is available at this Eventbrite link. Please register so you can join either in person or via livestream (TBA).
As with previous Origins Conference meetings, papers will be presented by members of all three societies (Creation Biology Society, Creation Geology Society, and Creation Theology Society). An Interdisciplinary Session will be led by the Creation Theology Society on the topic of Created Kinds. The Interdisciplinary Session presentations will be published as papers in the third issue of the Journal of the Creation Theology Society (2024/2025).
Following the Saturday sessions, the Creation Theology Society will hold its Annual Members Business Meeting. Please be certain your CTS membership is up to date so you can vote.
From July 16–19 Cedarville University will also host the 9th International Conference on Creationism (follow the link for information).
Urgent Message regarding Signatories for “A Call to Unity”: Due to a website glitch, all messages through the Signatory link were going to a two-year old page link that is not viable. If you do not see your name in the list of signatories, it is most likely due to not receiving your request because of that issue.
Please accept our apology and go back to our Contact page to resubmit your request. On the current Contact page you should see cts@creationtheologysociety.org as our email address. If you see a gmail address, you know it is the non-viable Contact page from two years ago. In that case, please refresh your page to see the correct address and you will know that your request will be received.
Please note: We will respond to every request within 48 hours. If you do not hear from us in 48 hours, please let us know at cts@creationtheologysociety.org.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation in getting this situation corrected.
Today (April 30, 2023) the board of the Creation Theology Society finalized a statement calling for unity and civility in our interactions with one another as fellow young age creationists.[1] We ask that you read the statement and consider becoming a signatory by requesting that we add your name to the list of signatories at the end of the document. You can access the statement here, or by means of the link in the banner at the top of the website page, or by going to the statement by means of the drop-down menu under About at the top of the home page.
Our founding documents call for us to be a society committed to biblically based theology and irenic engagement with fellow members and all other persons pursuing the study of the events recorded in Genesis 1–11. It is our hope that many individuals will commit themselves to the principles enunciated in “A Call to Unity.” Our prayer is that it will encourage us to model a Christlike behavior in all of our interactions formally and informally, personally and publicly.
Endnotes:
[1] We are using “age” in place of “earth” because we believe the universe is also young, not just the earth.
On the evening of December 8 CTS hosted its first Online Fall Symposium with twenty-one CTS members logging in. The topic for our symposium was “The Biblical Flood in the Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls” led by our President, Dr. Jeremy Lyon. Wipf and Stock published Jeremy’s Qumran Interpretation of the Genesis Flood in 2015. If you have an interest in this topic, this book provides very helpful translations, descriptions, analyses, and discussions of four scrolls: the Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen), a Genesis pesher (4Q252), a fragment of an admonition based on the Flood (4Q370), and a fragment of a paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus (4Q422).
The Fall 2022 Online Symposium video can be accessed via this link. In this way, those of you who were unable to join us can still hear the presentation and the subsequent Q&A.
Watch for announcements regarding future online symposia. We plan to offer at least two each year — one in the Fall and one in the Spring. The symposia provide only members the privilege of live-stream watching and participation. Every active member receives a Zoom invitation ahead of time so they can join the symposium. Post-symposium access to the videos are available to anyone through the CTS website.
Praise the Lord! The IRS granted tax exempt status to the Creation Theology Society under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 501(c)(3). That means that donors can deduct contributions they make to CTS. It also means that CTS is qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers, or gifts. We filed for this exemption as a non-profit organization on August 3 — and we received a positive response in less than one month! The IRS even made the CTS effective date of exemption August 4, 2020, covering our entire history as an organization.
Thank you for praying for this important process and approval. We invite you to visit our Donate page by clicking on the appropriate link in the running head at the top of all our website pages, or by going to Donate in the drop-down menu under Home. Or, just click on this link.
Issue 1 of the Journal of the Creation Theology Society has been printed and is in the mail to all our members! Click this link to go to the Journal page for the latest information and for a free download of a sample article.
Soon we will announce a Members Only page where members can access the digital version.