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Archive for June, 2008

Alumni and the Future

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Last week I spent some time doing what I truly love in the summer, speaking to youth. I especially love a week like the last one because 1) my family was with me, 2) I served with the guys I love, including Jeff Capps, Josh Hicks, my son Josh, and a rare joy to work […]

Missing Wake Forest

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

(warning to reader-sometimes blogs are far too narcissistic and egocentric, where the blogger simply opines about himself or herself as if anyone really cares. If you are annoyed by such dribble, feel free to skip the below as I have succumbed to the temptation myself!)
Today is June 19, a day before my son’s birthday (20 […]

Check This Out–Between the Times

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

One of the links below on my site for some time has been to “Between the Times.” If you keep up with blogville you know from Nathan Finn’s fine site that Between the Times has a new focus.  If you have not checked it out I highly encourage you to do so. David Nelson, my friend […]

On the SBC Presidency of Johnny Hunt

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

The year 1989 signaled more for me than a decade of bad music (except for U2 I suppose).  That year I finished decades of formal education, completing all but my dissertation for the PhD.  Early in the year I sent my resume to every SBC college, university, and seminary.  The response I received was less […]

Sunday (make that Tuesday) is for Students

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Okay, I am on vacation so I missed Sunday. This weekend I had the joy of hanging out with a pile of single adults from the great Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte. HGBC has two campuses, Main and North. They stole, er, called one of my colleagues, Stephen Rummage, a few years back. But […]

A Reid Who Reads

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Recently Josh finished his freshman year at our college.  He made a discovery this year–while reading has never been a passion, he found that books expressing great ideas, such as Plato’s Republic and Homer’s Illiad (I fear the only Homer many young adults know has the last name of Simpson), actually make for good reading.I […]