So far this late fall the interest in travel study trips is mixed. In the School of Humanities, the HIST 3308 Modern China travel course has not caught much interest. The HIST 3309 History of Christianity in connection with the Religion travel course to Turkey - the Churches of the Revelation - is in the same position. But!!! . . . The travel courses for the United Kingdom/England are the real deal if we judge by student interest.
~ The courses: HIST/POSC 3364 British Studies (Dr. Summers); ENGL 4310 British Modernists (Mrs. Falke); and ENGL 2321 British Literature (Dr. Watson/Mrs. Falke). This will be a strong combination! Mrs. Falke has a fresh perspective and has been making progress with her doctorate at University of York — one of our major stops for sure while we are there! Dr. Summers has led two other student trips to the UK in 2000 and 2003 and also spent a sabbatical semester in Oxford and London in winter/spring 2002. This trip will probably run 14 days. More later . . .
Coach Ralph Harris leaves ETBU after his seventh season as head football coach, his primary mission of getting the program started, and respectably, accomplished in the first four years of his time here. It has been good to know you, Coach Harris. Thanks for being a gentleman among us. We wish you all the best, and we’ll see you later!
Means: Futility of futilities (vanity of vanities) or Absolutely futile. The NET Bible reads, Futile! or Futility of futilities! (Qoheleth or Ecclesiastes 1:2) A “devised ensemble-created theatre project,” Vain ran about two hours Saturday night, stretching the Hilltop Players and the Hilltop Audience–who, it may be assumed, needed stretching (or perhaps to be led in some revisioning?) in ways a Bible study circle might not, and most preaching will not. (more…)
Well, actually, The Garden here is an ETBU faculty lunch seminar. Today’s presentation was about Dr. Robert Benefield’s SDS — Spiritual Discernment Survey — worth a look and a visit. Check it out, complete the survey as I did and be a part of the study!
Why the research program? Benefield writes, “Spiritual discernment literature has become highly popularized in numerous books and articles in the past ten years but attempts to investigate systematically spiritual discernment in the social and behavioral sciences have been lacking.” End
Comes this week to Tiger Mountain: Pastor Rodney Woo of Houston, court-messenger with an indictment against Christ-follower assemblies. Terms of the indictment: In the first instance, failure to watch Jesus of Nazareth among the masses–male, female, poor, rich, a society of ethnic multi-texturings–as he says, “Come to Me.” In the second instance, Simon bar Jonah’s mystical vision (The Acts) where he learns God makes no distinctions among persons; all are either in relationship or suffering outside relationship. In the third instance, Paul the Commissioned, who as a fulfilled Jew among the Gentiles evokes the Abrahamic promise “All the nations will be blessed in you.” (Gal. 3:8 WEB Bible www.bible.org) And who appealed to Christ “our peace, the one who made both groups (Jew and Gentile) into one” and among other things all “are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household” and who also live in “a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” (Eph. 2:14-22 WEB Bible) (more…)
It’s a Southern Thing, or is it actually just an American thing? Our athletic teams are “The Tigers” and “The Lady Tigers.” Could have been “The Tigresses” though they’re plenty fierce anyway, already, worth watching and yelling about. Well, this is my opening shot on the new blog page. Thanks to my technoguru son I’m up this far and there will be more to come!