"Ministering in a rapidly changing world is both exhilarating and challenging. In order to remain effective and enabled to reach emerging generations with the Gospel, I needed to be in a dynamic learning and growth environment provided by Wheaton College. Studying alongside other passionate and curious students in a cohort setting was deeply transformative. This was a pivotal and crucial season in my ministry life."

"Transitioning a church from one leader to the next is so hard. If I were to point to one of the most significant factors as to why we’ve been able to navigate that transition well and come out thriving on the other side, I would not hesitate to say my time at Wheaton. It was like a life raft for me. I wasn’t looking for an opportunity like this, and yet, God, in his grace, opened the door, and I am so glad that he did."

"Wheaton was an ideal place in which to prepare for a lifetime of scholarship and teaching. The intimate size of the program fostered a collaborative environment and formed lifelong friendships. Wheaton’s high caliber faculty were accessible and full of wisdom. What attracted me most to Wheaton was that professors were willing to ask difficult, critical questions in the context of a deep Christian commitment."

“The cohort experience has meant many things; one is an opportunity, an opportunity to not just learn but to get in different creative, God-present spaces, to learn to glean and to get out of routine. It has brought together relationships; The Brotherhood and the relationship-building is something that money can’t buy. Being able to learn from not only our instructors, but from each other in a practical, real, transparent, vulnerable posture and conversation. This program has impacted me in indescribable ways.”

"As a pastor theologian, I’m so grateful for the foundation that I received from the Wheaton PhD program. Beyond learning how to do serious scholarship, I built a lasting community of friends and mentors from a variety of disciplines and gained an appreciate for global theology. I look back on my time at Wheaton as digging a deep well, from which I draw every day as a disciple and as a pastor. I praise God for the Liftin Divinity School!”