In the Twilight Years of Alexander Campbell he lectured and preached extensively to the Bethany College community. By this time Alexander Campbell was a saintly old gentleman and a seasoned reflective student of Scripture. For those who know only Campbell's "Sermon on the Law" might be surprised a large chunk of his hermeneutical enterprise was focused on the Pentateuch. In 1859 and 1860 his lectures were recorded and later published after the Civil War by W. T. Moore as Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch. Also recorded in this same period were...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Its the late evening here in the desert ... as I write this I am on the back porch, laptop and I looking up at the starry sky ... makes me ask how reflective are we? How introspective can we be? How honest can we be with ourselves and with others? Has anyone else noticed? Or am I just so delusional that I have failed to have eyes and ears to truly see and hear? Let me tell you what I see and then you tell me what you see.I am only forty years old and the world I live in has drastically changed in my own lifetime. It seems to me that the world...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
On my way back from Pepperdine I had several hours in the dark by myself. During those dark hours I listened to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. This Pulitzer Prize winner is a fascinating attempt to understand the incredible economic and technological disparity that has existed between various segments of humanity. Or to put it differently "Why did Europe come to dominate the modern world?" Digging (and thinking) deeply into such realities as how geography and even food production has impacted human development...
Saturday, May 9, 2009
I, and my family, have been making an annual pilgrimage to Pepperdine University for the Bible lectures every year since 2001. For the last two I have made that voyage alone which changes dynamics quite a bit. Last year and this year I arrived a day early for some decompression time. This year that meant I arrived about midnite on Monday and simply walked on the beach and slept on it till the sun came up. What a glorious sight. Love the ocean ......
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