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The Jewish Chapel (err Synagogue) is different from the two Christian chapels in that it is basically circular, not in the shape of a rectangle.  One of the interesting features of this chapel is the various mezuzahs in the door frames, above which is the most colorful one. This room is warm and intimate, and…

You know when half the critics are raving that this Clint Eastwood film is his masterpiece and the other half are just raving that something is up.  The premise is not new of course— contact with those in the afterlife who are ‘somewhere out there’, by the medium of ‘mediums’,  psychics.  In a pan-spiritual post-Christian…

The final Gray lecture by Tom Wright was not quite as full of juice as the first one, nevertheless, there were some good points along the way.  This lecture was entitled,  ‘How God Became King’  (on earth, as it is in heaven).   We might say of course—- look out the window, clearly the Kingdom hasn’t…

The Catholic Chapel at the Cadet Chapel is necessarily more like a grotto chapel with a flat roof, since it is beneath the Protestant Chapel.  Its acoustics are far better than the Protestant Chapel, and it has a spectacular mosaic altar wall, and very unique representations of the stations of the cross, as you will…

Tom Wright graced us with two lectures, the James A Gray lectures, during Duke’s Fall Convocation.  James A. Gray was an entrepreneurial Christian lay man from Centenary UMC in Winston Salem, who endowed a chair of Bible at UNC, and this lectureship at Duke.  These lectures which Tom gave were a revisiting and reinvigorating of…

During our free time our Yuliya (now working on her PhD at the U. of Chicago in Theology and the Arts) and I and our friend Roger Nelson  (aka John Wesley) went to see the spectacular Cadet Chapel at the Air Force Academy. What I did not know about this chapel is that is actually…

Though not part of the Convocation per se,  the Sunday worship service which Ann and I and Christy attended featured Tom Wright preaching on the conjunction of two texts involving lepers. The first, the famous story of Naaman the Syrian, and the second the Lukan text about the ten lepers of which only one, the…

Above you will see not only my favorite watering hole on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, you also get a glimpse of two relatives of my, geared up to go see the Heels play Son of Clem (i.e. Clemson).  It was a beautiful Fall day, but man cannot live by football alone, so first, we…

Above pictured is the new dean of Duke Divinity School, my good friend (and fellow Braves and Red Sox fan)  Richard Hays.  Here he is introducing Andy Crouch, whose session of culture making seems to have most resonated with the audience of preachers and lay persons.  Andy is in fact polymath, as the British would…
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