Acts 17Four centuries prior to St. Paul’s arrival in Athens, the orator Demosthenes chastised his fellow Athenians for their preoccupation with new ideas and intellectual fancies. To Demosthenes way of thinking, the issue of the day was the preservation of democracy as Philip of Macedonia rattled his saber along Greece’s northern border. An inquisitive spirit …
Acts 16: 16 – 40At 4:30 in the morning on Sunday June 28th, 1992 I got out of bed in Apple Valley, California and put on my running togs, as it was my custom to run most mornings, and on Sundays, with first Mass at 8am; I had to rise earlier than usual. I loved my …
Acts 15: 36 – 16: 15In the last few verses of chapter 15 we see the culmination of the rift between Barnabas and his colleague Paul over Barnabas’ nephew John Mark, who had abandoned the first missionary journey in Pamphylia. The disagreement being sharp, Barnabas sets sail for Cyprus with nephew Mark, and Paul takes …
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Acts 15My seminary, Seabury-Western, was located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois outside of Chicago. Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (Episcopal) was treated as one of the graduate schools associated with Northwestern, and so we had access to the university library (in addition to the impressive theological library on the Seabury campus), the gym, …
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