This time last year, I was anxiously awaiting the final say on whether I’d be hired as a campus minister (I wasn’t really sure until late July, and even then there was some ambiguity as to the length of my service). Anxious partly because this seemed like the only ministry work that I seemed likely… Continue reading On the end of a ministry
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Missions
[written while on mission, edited afterward. This was originally the second of two postings] Thursday night, on the eve of our departure from our mission site. I am feeling even more ersatz Baptist than usual, as our Cooperative Baptist Fellowship mission group now consists of two ELCA Lutherans and a UCC minister playing a Baptist… Continue reading Missions
Of History and Religion
Last week at our Cooperative Student Fellowship Student-led Bible study, we had some guests from another, charismatic-leaning campus ministry. They invited us to attend their Thursday-night event, the showing of a 30-minute film showing that the Bible is totally historically true. Husband of an historian that I am, I immediately asked, “well, it makes an… Continue reading Of History and Religion
You Had to Be There
In which Nathan attempts to get his groove back, and scratches the record.