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Hello all:

So, I dropped my wife off at work this morning, came back home, and found a large package sitting outside my door from College Press.

When I was at the Pepperdine Lectures, I had the occasion to meet Carl Ketcherside’s daughter. While we were talking she offered to send me a couple of books by her late father, and I agreed.

I lugged this huge package I found outside my door into the house, and opened it, and found 12 volumes of Hardcover books…”The Works of Carl Ketcherside”. The set is about as large as a smaller set of Encyclopedias, including his writings from the Mission Messenger magazine that he published.

This is more than I ever imagined. I expected to get a couple of paperbacks, and instead got this huge collection. I’m excited…I’m not sure when I’ll have time to read all of it…I shouldn’t run out of reading material for a while.

-Clarke

Hello all:

Well, I started classes this week. Not quite what I expected.

I am taking three classes: History of Christianity, The Bible as Literature, and Introduction to Crime Analysis.

The Intro to Crime Analysis class is easy. I’ve worked in Criminal Justice and Public Safety for a while, so none of it is new to me.

The Bible as Literature, on the other hand, I’m having a tough time with. The class, in a nutshell, is looking at the Bible as Literature through the lense of German Higher Criticism. The text (and the instructor) make the assumption that the Bible is uninspired, written totally by humans, and that the author had many points in mind, including religious ones, when they wrote the text. I’m having a hard time seperating my beliefs from the class, and I am struggling. However, I did get some good comments from the instructor on our discussion (its all online) so maybe I’m getting the hang of it. We’ll see. I know one thing, I’ll be glad to be finished with this one, and its just week one. Higher Criticism of the Bible isn’t my ball of wax…

I’m not sure yet what to make of my History of Christianity class yet. It is my only class that I am taking in a classroom, and I missed the first session because I was at the Symposium. I spoke with the professor over the phone and she seems very friendly. I started reading the text last night for this class, and found that the writers are fairily secular, and its very odd reading a text book on the History of Christianity when they question the diety of Jesus.

I’m definatly taking all of this “learning” with a grain of salt, but hopefully it will be helpful to me later as a follower of Christ.

-Clarke

Hello all:

The Notification Email Function has finally been fixed….I’m not sure how, but it has. Since I made the move to a new server, I’ve been having to use a list serve type function to get notification emails out. I am now using the Wordpress Plugin again…which means you can subscribe yourself to email notifications.

So, if you haven’t in the past and want to, please feel free. You can also unsubscribe yourself again as well if you’d like.

-Clarke

Hello all:

Many of you may be aware of a new website out there focusing on unity within the Restoration Movement. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, go visit Restoration Heritage and see it for yourself. The site has been up for less than a month I believe, and there are tons of conversations going on there…best of all, its open and welcome to everyone inside, and out, of the Restoration Movement.

I went ahead with the permission of the board owner and replaced the forum on Restorationmovement.org with the forums at Restoration Heritage, and added an RSS feed on the front page so that you can get a quick glance of what is occuring there.

Thank you to Bob Hogue for the link and information.

-Clarke