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I have just come from a movie which I did not expect to move me the way this film did, and it has not one but two Oscar worthy performances by Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. This is a dense morality drama which deals with moral consequences of actions, ranging from the immorality of a…

One of the real difficulties in collaborative volumes is adequately revealed in the old joke about whenever three rabbis get together you have four opinions on any given matter. Scholars, of whatever ilk, have been taught that they have, and ought to have their own individual voice, and should express it, otherwise, it is thought,…

I have been recently working through the volume edited by Beverley Gaventa (Princeton) and Richard Hays (Duke), entitled “Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage” (Eerdmans 2008). The volume comes out of lengthy times of interaction and worship and presentations at the CTI (the Center of Theological Inquiry, which should surely be called the Center…

Our Asbury student Scott Cozart told the following parable in chapel this morning. A father wanted to teach his four sons the lesson of not judging something or someone too quickly, and so he called his four sons together and said “I have a task for you. I want you, my eldest son to go…

ASBURY SEMINARY ELECTS NEW PRESIDENTWILMORE, Ky. (Feb. 17, 2009) – Timothy Craig Tennent, Ph.D., of Ipswich, Mass., has been elected the eighth president of Asbury Theological Seminary by the Board of Trustees. Asbury Theological Seminary, a private graduate school in the Wesleyan tradition with an enrollment of more than 1600 students, offers master’s and doctorate…

Ah to be a cat….. they rule their own little world and blissfully ignore all the dangers. And worse, they know they rule their owners. I was listening to Vermont radio and a comedian came on and told the following story: “Husbands if you want to find out whether your wife on Valentine’s loves you…

When I went to the University of Durham there was a young man who had been playing in jazz clubs in Newcastle, the next train stop north and had been an English teacher. His name was Gordon Summner, and he had a magic voice and played a mean bass as well. He was discovered by…

I have already commented on the Weston Priory in a previous Vermont post. Here are some pictures from the Priory I took while there. BW3

I was riding through Egypt and my guide was waxing eloquent about Clint Eastwood. He loved the Dirty Harry and spaghetti Western movies he had made. My druthers would be for the more serious Eastwood– the Eastwood who directed such classics as Bird, or the recent excellent movie “The Changeling”, or some of his war…

Here are a few of the many shots I took in Vermont over the last month. Kudos once more to the Dumas’ for allowing me to stay and work in so beautiful a place. All these shots are from in and around the Grafton, Ludlow, Chester, Windham area.Enjoy. BW3
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