Black Movers, White Neighborhoods

Here is the latest blog post from Esau McCaulley, New Testament professor and my colleague at Northeastern Seminary.  

Yesterday, four movers arrived at our new home to deliver items I had not seen since we placed them in storage some three years ago. Two of these delivery men were African American br…

Source: Black Movers, White Neighborhoods

In God’s Good Time: My first class at Northeastern Seminary

I’m happy to share with you a blog post by my new colleague Esau McCaulley on his first class at NES. His reflections remind me of my first experience of teaching a course at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology in Jamaica after decades of living, studying, and working in North America. My issue was culture; his is race (which also involves culture).

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The people’s champ must be everything the people can’t be…You must have missed the come up, I must be all I can be. Call me Mr. Mufasa, I had to master stampedes– Chance the Rap…

Source: In God’s Good Time: My first class at Northeastern Seminary

Congratulations, Dr. Josef Sykora!

Josef Sykora, Director of Northeastern Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry Program and Assistant Professor of Biblical Interpretation, successfully defended his dissertation on Tuesday, April 12 at Durham University, in Durham, England.

His thesis was entitled, “The Unfavored: Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel” and was directed by Dr. R. Walter L. Moberly, professor of theology and biblical interpretation.

Northeastern Seminary is proud of you, Josef, and we are absolutely delighted you’re part of the NES team! Congratulations!

For more on Northeastern Seminary, see my previous blog post, “Northeastern Seminary—A Hidden Gem,” some details of which have been updated, as well as the seminary website links.