The Scriptorium Daily

Category: Misc.

  • Gratitude

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    Peter David Gross
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    Gratitude is free. That’s not because it doesn’t cost anything for us to become more grateful people. It does cost us. Nor because we can idly expect it to be handed around by everyone. We can’t (or shouldn’t). No, it’s free because it’s unnecessary. We can’t demand it of each other. It’s superfluous, extraneous, gracious.…

  • How to Give an ETS Conference Paper

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    Fred Sanders
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    The Evangelical Theological Society is having its annual meeting next week. As a veteran of a dozen ETS conferences and a bunch of other scholarly gatherings, I offer here a few tips about how to present a paper. I have heard, and I have delivered, some bad presentations, and have learned from trial and error.…

  • A Wedding Homily for Brian and Katie

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    Greg Peters
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    I was privileged this past weekend to give the homily for the wedding of Brian and Katie Manchester. Perhaps it will be of interest to others too. *** Brian and Katie, this day has been a long time in coming. Your parents have been thinking about it for years, your friends have watched it develop…

  • Hogglecroggles

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Wesley grew up in Epworth, Lincolnshire, before going to boarding school in London and then up to Oxford. At some point he drew up a list of Lincolnshire dialect terms. Richard P. Heitzenrater prints that list on p. 155 of The Elusive Mr. Wesley. I recommend reading it out loud. I don’t know which…

  • Passion and Resurrection: Reflections on the Death of a Friendship and the Death of a Friend

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    Robert Llizo
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    (I wrote this piece a year ago, and since then, there has been a reconciliation with the friend in question, though this friend lives now a half a world away. I publish it as it is) there hath pass’d away a glory from the earth.-William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality As I write this piece I…

  • Prayer for the Class of 2011

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    Fred Sanders
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    Father in heaven, Lord of hosts, God of Israel: you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You are the God, you alone, who made these students and gave them to us for a season. We pray for them today in the same way as King Hezekiah prayed for his…

  • Royal Duty: The King Behind the Speech

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    Robert Llizo
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    St. Joseph, spouse of the Virgin Mary and Foster-Father of Christ, has always fascinated me. He comes on the scene, plays his role, and then is never mentioned again in the gospel narratives. He is a man who is called to do one task, difficult, for sure, but one that does not win him any…

  • Bach as Theologian

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    Robert Llizo
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    I couldn’t let the 326th birthday of the great Kappelmeister go by without some short reflection on my favorite choral piece, the great St. Matthew Passion. As a devout Lutheran, Bach heavily meditated on the passion of Christ, influenced heavily by Martin Luther’s theology of the cross. For Luther, Christ as the “suffering servant” is…

  • Data-Wise

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    Diane Vincent
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    You should assume as a matter of course that at least once in your college career you will behold the blue screen of death or that your laptop will be either stolen or dropped down the fire escape or forgotten in Starbucks and that it will occur in the days before you must turn in…

  • Brief Notice: Scott Bessenecker's Living Mission

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    Greg Peters
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    I recently finished reading a new book edited by Scott A. Bessenecker entitled Living Mission: The Vision and Voices of New Friars (InterVarsity, 2010). Given my propensity toward all things monastic, I was mostly drawn to this book by its subtitle and was eager to read up on these so-called new “friars.” This designation is…

  • A Letter to My Freshmen

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    Matt Jenson
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    To My Freshmen: Okay, so that may be premature. We’ve only just met, after all. Five months ago you were a sea of undifferentiated faces only loosely attached to names (but great names—names like Bustos and Magness, Tonti and Duarte, Mendelson, Zilka, and Van Vlear). To call you ‘my’ freshmen presupposes a kind of possession…

  • Mostly Right, Partly Wrong

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    Fred Sanders
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    The first 2011 issue of The Examined Life from Wheatstone Academy is online now, and it includes several things that Scriptorium readers are likely to be interested in. John Mark Reynolds has a piece about what he learned from Plato’s Phaedrus (and, as he says, could have learned from the Bible). There are essays, updates,…