Random Acts of Verbiage

What in the world is Easter about? It makes no sense to celebrate the gruesome death of a minor country preacher, making a virtue, as Nietzsche warned, of failure.

This from the beginning of John Stackhouse’s most recent post “The Subversiveness of Easter.” I recommend you go read the rest.
He suffers and dies as a [...]

This term in Systematic Theology here at Regent, professor John Stackhouse gave some wonderful lectures. Contained in those lectures were some very quotable statements, some humerous, some serious, all pithy. I didn’t have the presence of mind to write them down myself, but thankfully, classmate Dan did.
Probably his [Paul's] love notes were full [...]

I just got back from my Systematic Theology A with John Stackhouse final. I think it went fairly well, not great, but I am satisfied, probably a B exam. I can live with that. I am officially done in Canada (not with the degree mind you, just with taking classes up here).
The [...]

My classes are coming to an end here at Regent. It is kinda said. Yeah, I will be back from time to time because I still have credits to finish up. But I will be moving away and won’t be there consistently any more. Tuesday saw my last chapel service, my [...]

Yesterday a group of Regent folks took a walk down to UBC’s Botanical Gardens (they even have a blog!) as part of the “Living Well” series. The gardens were extremely beautiful and I can only imagine how things will be when everything is in full bloom. The image here is from one of [...]

Tonight I went to UBC’s presentation of George Handel’s Messiah with some friends from Regent. Both the University Singers and the UBC Choral Union performed wonderfully! I had never heard the full oratorio so this was quite a treat. I would not like to hear it professionally with a full orchestra. [...]