Christianity Today's article on the passing of Bob Webber

Moody Radio's Primetime America interview with John Kirn President Northern Seminary

Remembering a man who saw evangelism from both sides.

Memorial TributePage

 A Personal Tribute   

     It was in 1979 that I first read the Orthodox Evangelicals by Bob Webber and Donald Bloesch. It was a book that changed  both the projectory of my theological thought and my life.  If I had never read that book, I doubt if I would have gone to Wheaton Grad School,  become ordained as a Deacon in the Anglican Church and employed at Northern Seminary.

       I first meet Bob when I was a graduate student at Wheaton back in 1994. Bob was many things to me. He was a professor, employer, mentor and colleague.  But most of all he was my friend. I will miss him calling me a “heretic”. I will miss the way he encouraged all those around him. I will miss his theological insights. I will miss having coffee with him and other students at Starbucks after chapel. I will miss working with him on the AEF Call. I will miss how he strove to embrace the church universal. I will miss reading his newest book.  I count myself as deeply blessed and personally enriched because of having Bob in my life. Bob, of course, would not want us to talk about him. He would direct our attention to the Risen Lord. And so Bob, the Lord has Risen, the Lord has Risen Indeed. Alleluia!

Philip Kenyon

Director of the Grow Center . Co-Convener of the AEF Call

Northern Seminary