Howie Luvzus

Great bumper sticker! How funny.

Seminary skewed my view of things too. I had a professor who ridiculed my conclusions in a paper in front of the whole class–I’m a big boy, I can take it. But I never had that at a secular school, and I would not have expected it in a Christian graduate school, but oh well. Another professor told me personally that he had designed the class deliberately so most of the students would fail, because he had a disagreement with the board of trustees. Well, isn’t that nice?
Fortunately, I was able to get past it, and not let it affect my view of Christianity. I hope you can do the same.

I’ll give you a jazz funeral, if by jazz funeral you mean me playing Elvis songs on a kazoo.

I’ve had a few professors I wish I could never see again. But you know, it’s not all that bad here. Only once have I said anything in class that would get me openly berated by a professor or some students. And I think I held my own very well in the end. All I said was, “I don’t think I care how they were immersed, if they were immersed as a believer.” Ooh that’ll get you in trouble.

Joe,
I don’t have a problem with any of the professors I had. In fact, some of them are my closest friends. It’s the fact that after spending 10 years (I was in the slow track program) getting my MDiv and PhD there and teaching as an adjunct, I was suddenly unfit for service due to my theological views. Which, by the way, were slightly more conservative than those who taught me.

It’s a shame when one is judged by one or two beliefs. Especially when one has been committed to seeking to understand God and how to serve God for most of your life.

I know that God’s OK with me, even though I feel like God’s a little ticked at me right now. It would be nice to feel that my brothers and sisters in Christ felt the same.

Not whining, just explaining.

Well I like you just fine.