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I was sent to Eastern Kentucky one day, early in my engineering career. There was quite a commotion going on near Butcher Hollow and my assignment was to speak with the people, listen to them, find out what the problem was and then offer a solution. When I arrived a couple of hours later, I was...

It isn’t hidden. Links have even been provided, multiple times, to the website, in multiple threads. What is your motive?

I’ve been thinking about the following proposition: “Continuing education is desired, not required.” There is a measure of truth to it, but it isn’t applicable in all situations.

I’ll further surmise that 98% of members of this forum couldn’t care less about it. I’ve made them in this thread, as well as in many others, which you have read and commented on. I’ve considered many other religions. It has been part of both my formal and informal education. Comparative...

I’ve already answered your question publicly, elsewhere, in other threads, on Christianity Board. You aren’t the first to ask it. I recommend continuing education. Why are my recommendations of such great importance to you? They are suggestions, not commands. Take them or leave them. Make...

Am I the subject of your continuing education? Are you continuing your education in any other field(s) of interest?

I’m not the topic of the thread. Continuing education - in any and every field, not just theology, religion, ministry or civil engineering - is. Most of my own continuing education is related to theology, but not all of it. I’m not a former pastor. I’m a retired pastor. I still do pastoral...

Distance. I retired and moved 425 miles away from the congregation I pastored in Atlanta. I don’t mind answering your question but the topic of the thread is continuing education.

Once again I find occasion to quote an old Jewish bookseller whom I purchased a book from online sometime back in the mid 1990’s. The title of the book is “The Real Messiah? A Jewish Response to Missionaries,” written by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. I was speaking with Jews at the time and wanted to...

He was a Christian. Educated at Wheaton College (BA) and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, PhD). His Doctoral advisor was Bruce Metzger. He is now an atheist and the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A very-well...

Imagine that you are a young and impressionable student at the University of North Carolina @RedFan and you’re interested in enrolling in some courses on religion and theology. You search through a catalogue of courses being offered during the upcoming semester and spot one that you decide you...

Nearly all of the classes I’ve taken at secular colleges / universities weren’t connected with religion or theology. Hillsdale College offers courses on a wide variety of subjects. Take politics, for example. What is their slant? Conservative. Take mathematics, for example. What is their slant...