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President Ford and Rev. Ford
By
Ben Witherington
It was 1974 and I was graduating from Carolina and Mike Ford was graduating from Wake Forrest. We had talked about being roomates at Gordon-Conwell where we had both enrolled to go to seminary. He sent me a note in the summer saying it wasn’t going to work out. Gordon-Conwell was the seminary that Billy…
Self-Evident Truths: “The Pursuit of Happyness”
By
Ben Witherington
I remember the feeling very well. That deep anxiety or fear in the pit of my stomach. It happened when I went before the scholarship committee at Chapel Hill to win a full ride to Carolina. I thought I did o.k., but I didn’t get the scholarship. I remember it again when I interviewed for…
Rocky Balboa– A Christmas Movie to Grow Old To
By
Ben Witherington
It is hard to believe it has been thirty years that we have been being regaled with the saga of Rocky Balboa. Loosely based on figure and character of the real life boxer Rocky Marcioni, we have now had six installments of this story, with the last one being by far the best, with the…
‘The Project’—A Christmas Sermon worth Pondering
By
Ben Witherington
Craig Hill is a fine NT scholar at Wesley Theological Seminary in D.C. and a fine preacher as well. We have been good friends for many years through the John Wesley Fellowship program. This is the sermon he preached in the Woodlands UMC a week ago. I found it so rich that I asked his…
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