October Post

Into the Deep End

Our kids are back to school after our return trip to Canada.  Four out of five are attending the Christian school across the very busy street on which we live.  Meanwhile, baby Azaryah spends quality time with Jenn at home.  I am frantically preparing for all new classes this year.  I am realizing it is normal in Egypt to find one’s role for the year on quite short notice.  Nonetheless, I am excited to teach something new, and to have the added responsibility of starting up a DMin program for African bishops. 

A couple new courses will be on Early Modern and Modern Theology, which will give me the opportunity to teach about my own teachers.  Like so many priests in the diocese of Dallas, we are Wycliffe grads, and we were privileged to study under professors who studied under legends from the “Yale School” of theology: Hans Frei, George Lindbeck, and Brevard Childs.  I will also teach on Eschatology – that is, “last things” like the second coming of Christ and the last judgment.  One landmine will be the continued place of the people of Israel in God’s plans, which is for obvious reasons a very live topic in the Middle East these days.  So prayers for that.

Finally, we are preparing to purchase a vehicle with the help of donors from the diocese.  With the new baby, our family now needs to take two Ubers everywhere – not the safest thing in the first place.  However, it’s a complicated process.  A foreigner can’t just waltz into a dealership.  So hopefully by our next post we will have a photo of that! 

Please keep us in your prayers … especially for the usual health and safety stuff we regularly have to deal with.  God bless.