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{{Infobox_organization

| image = File:Ligonier Ministries Logo.jpg

| headquarters = Sanford, Florida

| headquarters = [[wikipedia:Sanford, Florida|Sanford, Florida]]

| type = [~~https~~:~~//wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Nonprofit_organization Non-profit]

| type = Religious [[wikipedia:Nonprofit_organization|Non-profit]]

| founders = [[R. C. Sproul]]

| leadership = [[W. Robert Godfrey]] (Chairman), [[Chris Larson]] (President and CEO)

| theological_tradition = [[Reformed theology]]

| theological_tradition = [[Reformed theology]], [[Presbyterianism]]

| date_founded = 1971

| affiliations =

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Ligonier offers undergraduate degrees through its sister organization [[Reformation Bible College]].<ref>https://reformationbiblecollege.org</ref> Ligonier also offers various teaching series, along with running annual national and regional conferences.<ref>https://ligonier.org/events</ref>

==Primary activities==

== Primary activities ==

The main activities of Ligonier Ministries include the following:

* Producing ''Renewing Your Mind'', a daily radio and Internet broadcast wherein Sproul and others teach [[systematic theology]], [[Reformed theology]], and the [[Bible]]

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* Holding conferences in Orlando and, in smaller form, elsewhere around the United States and internationally.

* Educational Church History Tours to the United Kingdom, Europe and Cruises to the Caribbean and Alaska that combines the cruise with Christian teaching

== History ==

The ministry began at the '''Ligonier Valley Study Center'''. In 1970, Dora Hillman, widow of industrialist J. Hartwell Hillman, offered R.C. Sproul land near [[wikipedia:Stahlstown, Pennsylvania|Stahlstown, Pennsylvania]], to establish a Christian study and conference center. Sproul, then serving as associate pastor at [[College Hill Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)|College Hill Presbyterian Church]] in [[wikipedia:Cincinnati|Cincinnati]], accepted, and in 1971 he and his family relocated to Pennsylvania along with Jim Thompson, who developed an audio ministry that recorded Sproul's lectures. The center, modeled in part after [[Francis Schaeffer]]'s [[L'Abri]], welcomed students for extended study and hosted weekend seminars, with participants living and dining alongside staff families.

By the mid-1970s, the center expanded through audio and video ministries, beginning videotaped lecture series in 1974. These recordings, facilitated by Jack and Linda Rowley, extended Sproul's teaching to churches and schools nationwide. Additional teaching staff, including [[Bill White]], [[Tim Couch]], [[Stu Boemig]], [[Jackie Shelton]], and [[Art Lindsley]], joined to support the growing programs. The center developed a regular schedule of public lectures, Bible studies, and weekend seminars, with notable contributions from [[John Gerstner]], Sproul’s mentor and professor of church history at [[Pittsburgh Theological Seminary]].

== Controversies ==

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 {{Infobox_organization
 | image = File:Ligonier Ministries Logo.jpg
-| headquarters = Sanford, Florida
+| headquarters = [[wikipedia:Sanford, Florida|Sanford, Florida]]
-| type = [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization Non-profit]
+| type = Religious [[wikipedia:Nonprofit_organization|Non-profit]]
 | founders = [[R. C. Sproul]]
 | leadership = [[W. Robert Godfrey]] (Chairman), [[Chris Larson]] (President and CEO)
-| theological_tradition = [[Reformed theology]]
+| theological_tradition = [[Reformed theology]], [[Presbyterianism]]
 | date_founded = 1971
 | affiliations =
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 Ligonier offers undergraduate degrees through its sister organization [[Reformation Bible College]].<ref>https://reformationbiblecollege.org</ref> Ligonier also offers various teaching series, along with running annual national and regional conferences.<ref>https://ligonier.org/events</ref>
-==Primary activities==
+== Primary activities ==
 The main activities of Ligonier Ministries include the following:
 * Producing ''Renewing Your Mind'', a daily radio and Internet broadcast wherein Sproul and others teach [[systematic theology]], [[Reformed theology]], and the [[Bible]]
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 * Holding conferences in Orlando and, in smaller form, elsewhere around the United States and internationally.
 * Educational Church History Tours to the United Kingdom, Europe and Cruises to the Caribbean and Alaska that combines the cruise with Christian teaching
+== History ==
+The ministry began at the '''Ligonier Valley Study Center'''. In 1970, Dora Hillman, widow of industrialist J. Hartwell Hillman, offered R.C. Sproul land near [[wikipedia:Stahlstown, Pennsylvania|Stahlstown, Pennsylvania]], to establish a Christian study and conference center. Sproul, then serving as associate pastor at [[College Hill Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)|College Hill Presbyterian Church]] in [[wikipedia:Cincinnati|Cincinnati]], accepted, and in 1971 he and his family relocated to Pennsylvania along with Jim Thompson, who developed an audio ministry that recorded Sproul's lectures. The center, modeled in part after [[Francis Schaeffer]]'s [[L'Abri]], welcomed students for extended study and hosted weekend seminars, with participants living and dining alongside staff families.
+By the mid-1970s, the center expanded through audio and video ministries, beginning videotaped lecture series in 1974. These recordings, facilitated by Jack and Linda Rowley, extended Sproul's teaching to churches and schools nationwide. Additional teaching staff, including [[Bill White]], [[Tim Couch]], [[Stu Boemig]], [[Jackie Shelton]], and [[Art Lindsley]], joined to support the growing programs. The center developed a regular schedule of public lectures, Bible studies, and weekend seminars, with notable contributions from [[John Gerstner]], Sproul’s mentor and professor of church history at [[Pittsburgh Theological Seminary]].
 == Controversies ==