Relocation!
A moving story (in more ways than one!).
After thirty-six years of sanity (with some lack of lucidity in between: three years in Massachusetts, and two in the U.K.), I’m losing my senses: I am leaving Texas. Today. August 1, 2021.
Here’s the news:
As of July 1, 2021, I have been on the faculty at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, to teach preaching in the Fall. After almost a decade-and-a-half teaching at Dallas Theological Seminary, I’m uprooting and moving,
Alive?
Samantha Dressig has a major problem. She’s dead. At least that’s what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)says.
At the bright age of 25, Ms. Dressig, a summer camp counselor, is full of energy and she has the right perspective on things.
Life is short. You never know when it’s gonna end.”
True, but when it is the IRS that says when and not your doctor or undertaker, that can be problematic.
The unfortunate mix-up began with her mother’s death, and seven years later
Surveillance!
The other day the byline of an online news article caught my attention:
Clerks at 7-Eleven and other convenience stores are being constantly monitored by a voice of god that can intervene from thousands of miles away.”
The article proceeded to describe how, in a short CCTV video, a clerk at a small convenience store can be seen taking a bottle of coffee from a cooler and drinking it. When he returns to the cash register, an unseen person’s voice emits from a speaker
Leaders?
The other day there was a most unfortunate occurrence in Athens, Greece.
A Greek Orthodox priest had been formally defrocked and removed from the clergy for alleged misconduct by his superiors a group of bishops. The 37-year-old responded by throwing acid at those elders, injuring seven of them and three others in attendance (one a police officer)—all hospitalized with burns, two seriously.
Photographs of the scene of the attack in central Athens showed bloodstains and
“Applicable,” not “Obeyable”!
For those interested in following my writing endeavors, there is a new article I’ve written for the Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society available here.
It is actually an essay-length book review of John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton, The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2019). This volume is part of InterVarsity’s Lost World series and the second tome co-authored
Know?
A recent survey conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by Charmin, they of the rear-end-wipes fame (and I have no idea why they did so), produced some interesting findings.
64 percent of Americans feel pretty confident about the locations of their country’s natural landmarks.
But only 51 percent knew that the Redwood Forest was in California. Only 38 percent knew that the Grand Canyon was in Arizona (20 percent answered Colorado).
Oh, and 22 percent of Americans think that
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.