Friend!
This was his last faculty engagement at Dallas Theological Seminary—its commencement exercises that were conducted a couple of weeks ago.
He’s moving on to greener pastures.
(Though the extent of greenness outside Dallas Seminary is debatable!)
John Hilber, erstwhile tenured Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies at DTS, is moving on. He’s taking up a professoriate at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. By now, he and his wife, Charlotte, will have arrived there—truck,
Model!
It is always hard to model and study social interactions and the effects these interactions have on our behavior. But one researcher with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, attempted to do just that. Bruce Sacerdote studied peer effects in a setting where peers are randomly assigned: entering freshmen in Dartmouth College are randomly assigned dorms and roommates. In one smooth stroke, Sacerdote eliminated the self-selection bias by which roommates
Preaching is Biblical
In the account in Nehemiah, of the post-exilic gathering of God’s people to renew their covenant with Yahweh, there is no question that the Word of God is given prominence. Preaching is to be biblical: there is this one book that must be preached in the assembly of the people of God. No more. No less.
And all the people gathered as one …, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had given to
Union?
Yet another interesting development from this strange world that is occupied by some strange people (which, needless to say, includes strange you and strange me).
Seattle. December 2011. An abandoned warehouse was scheduled to be demolished to make space for a new construction, an apartment complex.
Shepherd!
There are several of these images in the İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri (Istanbul Archeological Museums): the Good Shepherd statuettes.
In the early centuries of the church, no images of Christ were sculpted, painted, or drawn. Rather artists depicted Jesus symbolically, and one of the commonest depictions was of him as the Good Shepherd.
This metaphor is derived from Jesus’ teaching in John 10.
“I am the good shepherd,
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.