The Center exists to promote thoughtful and disciplined reading, study, interpretation, and application of the Bible throughout the world. Welcome | About the Center | Directions | Center Personnel Center Happenings | Historical Perspective Book Reviews | Bible Study Helps Holdings: Current | Projected | Complete A look at the damage done to the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies with Dr. Ray Van Neste. Southern Seminary gives $100,000 for Union’s rebuilding efforts Nepalese pastors benefit from Van Neste’s teaching A 10-day trip to Nepal was cut a little short for Union University Christian studies professor Ray Van Neste, as a student protest over gas prices shut down the city of Kathmandu, including the airport. Van Neste was originally supposed to leave the country at noon on Jan. 23. But his host feared that the student riot might disrupt Van Neste’s original travel plans, so they left for the airport before dawn instead. read more Listen to Dr. Ray Van Neste explain the vision and purpose of the Center. Great Insights on Biblical Studies by John Piper Brothers, Let Us Query The Text Brothers, Bitzer Was A Banker in Adobe Acrobat format Past Conferences: 2005 | 2007 "My brother, if you would magnify your office, make the Word of God your life study. Let down your buckets into the well of salvation; lengthen your cords and let them down deep, and draw up the water fresh and sparkling every day, and give it out freely to your thirsty congregations." - B.H. Carroll 'Sermons to Preachers' (1892) Recent Book Review Resources on Nehemiah by MORE BOOK REVIEWS Recent Happenings Ellsworth Makes Book Donation to Ryan Center Ryan Center Currently Closed for Rebuilding Union Library Provides Critically Needed Space for Ryan Center Holdings MORE HAPPENINGS NEWSLETTERS: FALL 2007 | SUMMER 2006 | SUMMER 2005 FALL 2004 | FALL 2003 (Adobe Acrobat format)