Personalia Update: February 16, 1979

Personalia

Clyde Cook will become president of Overseas Crusades after completion of the current school year at Biola College, where he is director of missions. Cook succeeds evangelist Luis Palau, who left Overseas Crusades in order to establish his own evangelistic team.

Neely Dixon McCarter, presently dean of faculty at Union Theological Seminary, has been selected president of Pacific School of Religion, an interdenominational seminary in Berkeley, California, and part of the Graduate Theological Union.

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The Jewish Archaeologist Who Inspired a Generation of American Christians

Gordon Govier

Pastors, students, and researchers have Gabriel Barkay to thank for insights into biblical history.

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