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This blog has been created as part of the course assignments for Danny Zacharias' course at Acadia Divinity College in the New Testament. I am excited to be taking the course by means of a "virtual seat," but feel to a certain extent I'm there on false pretenses. That is, I am studying at the graduate level, which I think is probably proper considering my academic background, but I have no, zero, zilch, nada background in Divinity studies. However, if I can outline some of my story, I do think my path of trial and error and discovery which has led me to this point may be of some interest. It will take some work to illuminate, however. Perhaps I might start by noting that I was the only child of two loving parents, who, however, came from different religious upbringings (my dad having been raised Roman Catholic and my mom Good Methodist :-)). For one reason and another, I never saw either of my parents attend church in my lifetime. Instead, I was sent on my own to the Presbyterian church which was within walking distance - but to which I had to make my way on my own on Sunday morning. I must say that this was not particularly conducive to my developing a strong sense of belonging in the traditional church environment - at least to that one. Perhaps it was a beneficial if perhaps unintended consequence that I have spent my entire life looking for the belief system that seemed the right one - hopefully the True one. :-)

Our first assignment, as I understand it, is to blog about our impressions of the first part of our text, David A. DeSilva's An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation - and perhaps also our first "virtual" class, which took place on Tuesday, September 15, 2009. I will provide that hopefully later today!