As you obviously noticed from the previous blog picture posts, this trip has already been outstanding…FOUR LICENSE PLATES ALREADY, PEOPLE! And, for the rest of you interested in my astute observations on mundane life, I’ve been musing about how weird it is to be three time zones away from the people you love the most. […]

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(Some of you will have seen this before…sorry. It’s been published in two places. But Robin’s comment on my last post asked some questions about my view on women, so I thought I’d regurgitate this for the blog.)
I sighed as I climbed the stairs in the stately library on the Fuller Theological Seminary campus. Entering […]

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As an adult, I’ll occasionally joke with my mom (and really, mom, this is a joke): “Look, you were the MOM. Why didn’t you MAKE me take piano lessons?”
Oh, how my mom tried. She loves music; she has a beautiful voice, plays the piano, and just plain loves all kinds and styles of music. And […]

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Given the fact that I went to seminary to, you know, learn things, I thought maybe I should blog some about my favorite professors.
Nancey Murphy was one. She’s a huge influence on many in the Emergent conversation, and was the person who introduced me to the postmodern buzzword. I only took one class from her, […]

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Almost exactly halfway through my seminary experience, the first gulf war broke out; and it helped me to realize that I had made up my mind…I was a pacifist.
I came to George Fox College pretty much knowing I felt called to be a pastor, and not knowing “Quakers” and “Friends” were the same thing. I […]

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It started because I wasn’t comfortable calling the Holy Spirit “it.”
After I survived (with Jimmy’s help) the Greek intensive, I proved my masochistic tendencies by taking a Greek reading class in the winter quarter. We worked on translating parts of the New Testament. The idea was to cement into place our understanding of Greek, to […]

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Walking in the heart of the Fuller campus in Pasadena, you can see its origins easily. Houses were purchased on the same street; the street was vacated and grass put in; and that park-like lawn serves as the center of campus. Some of the houses are still there as seminary buildings; others have been torn […]

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(Update: you’d be better off reading the previous post before this one…)
Hands. Many of you noticed his hands, just as many of us did in Marianne’s class 15 years ago.
The story of the picture, as I remember it, goes like this. This painting was commissioned after the man had passed away. The man’s widow gave […]

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This is an assignment. I’m asking you do actually do what I’m going to ask, and then respond in the comments. Can you handle that?
One of my favorite profs at Fuller was Marianne Meye Thompson. She was a key person in helping the bible become a living book for me. One of her first assignments […]

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AJ left this question in the comments while I was on vacation, and I’m planning to tackle it in multiple posts. I’ve consulted the authorities, and this is fully permissible on this blog; I started it as a writing discipline, so if I write it, it’s permissible. You don’t have to like it!
The […]

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