Archive for June, 2008
Back at it after a Sunday break (for the most part…I did do some grading for a summer school class). Heading into the medieval period today, should be lots of fun – if that’s what you’re into.
Yesterday I went to the “Little Church Combined” after an unsuccessful hunt for a church that actually celebrates the [...]
Not too much to update today – still slogging through the first 600 years of Church history. Lots of Justin and Irenaeus today.
Jan and Andy (Krista’s grandparents) just got back from a trip and are off on another tomorrow morning, so I’ll have the place to myself again for a few days. Not too much [...]
Yesterday was a pretty unproductive day. I chased a few to many rabbit trails and didn’t get some copies I was waiting for and it was just plain hard to read and write. But, today was much better! I looked at the various early church celebrations of the Lord’s Supper…quite a bit of geographical variety [...]
Hope to finish up (what I can with the resources I have) the Biblical material today and move to the historical (which should go a bit quicker, I have more material with me). The front porch is a great place to research and write, so hopefully today will be as productive as past days.
The pic above is [...]
Today I’ll be working on feasting in the Old Testament and then jump to the institution narratives and Paul’s instructions – big day!
I took a walk yesterday afternoon and happened upon a calf who had made its way outside the fence (pic above). High drama for the afternoon. Actually, everybody said “oh, they do that [...]
Yesterday I spent time looking at Genesis 14 with Melchizedek’s presentation of bread and wine as well as the connections between Christus Victor and God the Destroyer in the Exodus. The later is interesting in the sense that the Lord’s Supper’s link with Passover may lean more towards God’s destructive power over evil (Egypt in [...]
Yesterday afternoon, as I was unpacking and organizing books, I realized I had two books from a partner library that were two weeks overdue and could not be renewed. So last night I scaned all of the sections I thought I might need from that book. The book was a collection of essays dealing with [...]
My wife’s grandparents have been gracious enough to let me stay two weeks on their ranch in western Nebraska (almost Wyoming) to write a major portion of my doctoral thesis. This is a nice, slow paced environment with cool mornings and crisp air, wonderful atmosphere for getting chapter 2 (over half the paper) done. I’ve [...]
I got the greatest Father’s Day gift from Hannah. It’s a wonderfully painted, large coffee mug, complete with travel top. You’ll definitely see this making the rounds on campus this year.
This was the sign I found posted on the doorway to my office. I guess campus really isn’t the same over the summer.