Spring Convo

There are only two Black, female seminary presidents in North America. Both are on campus today for Spring Convocation. Also on campus is Terrence Fretheim, one of the most respected Old Testament scholars of the last thirty years. And in just a few minutes, he's going to be visiting our Exodus class (we're using his commentary as our primary textbook). I'm going to have him sign my textbook and my copy of The Suffering of God.

By the way: who's the most selfish person in the Old Testament? Noah. Because when God gets angry and is going to smite people and tells Noah he's going to be the only person to survive, Noah goes right along with it. Everyone else in the Old Testament who's faced with a similar statement by God (Abraham, Moses, etc) tries to talk him out of it--and succeeds. (Now, God does end up destroying Sodom and Gommorah, but Abraham had talked him down so that if God had been able to find five righteous people God would have spared it. That's quite a concession on God's part.)

My grandfather just died

I'm flying home tomorrow morning.