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August 2013

August 12, 2013

Ashes and Life

This summer a neighbor of mine died. I had gotten to know Jim and his...

August 04, 2013

How Do I Learn From Experience If I Don’t Have Any?

Earlier this summer, I got an email from John Buchanan, a current student in the...

July 2013

July 08, 2013

On Being the Local Church: A Musing

Last December I helped plant a new church in La Mirada – Anglican Church of...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Change: Looking Back and Looking Forward

I am waxing a bit nostalgic at the moment. Fifteen years have gone by since...

December 2012

December 05, 2012

Christmas Playlist 2012

A Christmas tradition we have in the Sanders family is to make a new mix...

August 2012

August 06, 2012

A.T. Pierson’s Biola Connections

I was asked recently about the relationship between A. T. Pierson (1837 -1911) and the early...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

Becoming a Christian

Little of the growth in my life comes from learning something new. Instead, it comes...

July 02, 2012

The Need to Work

Another school year has come and gone and summer is now in full swing. In...

July 01, 2012

Dr. Johnson’s Cat

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the literary giant behind Rasselas and the first truly great English dictionary,...

June 2012

June 10, 2012

A Noble Risk:
The Making of a Wheatstone Conference Theme

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

What John Mark Founded

Today Biola held a special farewell reception for John Mark Reynolds, who is becoming provost...

May 11, 2012

Metathon 2012 – Dante’s Inferno

Dr. Geier: “It’s interesting that Satan’s uninteresting.”

The Metathon ended Sunday night, complete with its traditional climactic cake. Lots of us stayed...

May 04, 2012

Metathon 2012 – Dante’s Inferno

Photo credit: Shannon Leith. Check out her website. She's incredible. After about a decade of...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

It’s Been Said.

There was a sweet, confusing couple of years when the Inklings et al. suddenly spoke...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

5 Things I Learned at Torrey From John Mark Reynolds

In the previous post, John Mark announced that he was leaving the honors program he...

February 27, 2012

The Old Order Changes

Outside my family, Torrey Honors is the best thing to happen to me so far....

January 2012

January 02, 2012

Finishing Up With "On This Day" In This Year

Since 2009 I've been noodling away at the "On This Day" essays here at Scriptorium...