What do you do when you are living Easter in the middle of Lent?
Some days you skip chapel because it is too dry and too depressing. Some days you remember the Lent period - the time you just came through - the dry period and you give great thanks for the resurrection.
Mostly . . . [...]

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It’s over.
Reading week is over.
Sunday 5:15pm.
Mounted the three flights of stairs in Campbell Hall to turn in the final project for the week.
It is done.
Back to normal work and classes.
Hallelujah.

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So, I have to preach for class (again) next Thursday. The text I’ve chosen is Matthew 6:25-34. It is all about not worrying because God provides. It gives the example of the lilies of the field – they do nothing and yet are beautifully clothed. So, the argument goes, will we [...]

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Here at Columbia Seminary, we are lucky enough to have a reading week for mid-terms, a spring break in April, and another reading week for finals. Reading week is a new phenomenon for me. In college we had reading days, which conveniently enough were always Saturday and Sunday between the last day of [...]

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You know you are at a seminary party when . . .
The Bible gets pulled out.
I mean, really, is this necessary?
Brad is leaving to teach skiing in Colorado for a month (how he pulled this off with classes is still a mystery to me), so there was a small going-away-for-a-month [...]

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I’m writing these journal articles for a New Testament assignment that is due tomorrow (thank you procrastination). It’s not an assignment that I have been looking forward to, nor one that I am particularly enjoying, but it is an intriguing one.
In the paper we wrote before this, we created fictional characters who lived in [...]

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