About Our People
Two of Ed Higgins’ (English) poems, “Lone Star Visit†and “Morning Worship,†were published in this month’s issue of Purple Pig Lit, a poetry ezine.
Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) is speaking at Newberg Friends Church this month, presenting four classes on The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel.
Marc Shelton (College of Education) presided over the 68th annual summer conference of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration at the California State University Channel Islands campus in Camarillo, Calif., Aug. 5-9. Marc presented the State of the NCPEA address to the first general session, convened the executive board meeting, and hosted members at the President’s Reception. Marc directs the administrative licensure program and will serve as past president during the 2014-15 academic year.
Brian Doak and Steve Sherwood (Christian Studies) coauthored The Bible: Ancient Context and Ongoing Community (Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 2014), out this fall. Brian will also publish Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and Self in Job (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014) this November. In June, he spent four days at a conference near Munich, Germany, to share ideas from his first book, The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel. The conference was titled “Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Ancient Contexts, Traditions and Influences.â€
In June Roger Newell (Christian Studies) participated at the Open Table Conference on Trinitarian Theology at Multnomah University in Portland, speaking and leading seminars on the implications of Trinitarian theology for worship and ethics. Also in June he contributed an essay, “Instead of Sentimental Exegesis: The Significance of Suffering for Christ and his Church,†to Reconsidering the Relationship between Biblical and Systematic Theology in the New Testament. The collection of essays is a Festschrift honoring his former teacher, Dr. Robert Gundry of Westmont College.
Steve Sherwood (Christian Studies) spoke at three camps over the summer: Father/Daughter retreat at Tilikum in July; Grad Camp (run concurrently with high school “Surfside Campâ€) at Twin Rocks in August; and Family Camp at Young Life’s Timberwolf Lake in Lake City, Mich., over Labor Day weekend. Steve also helped his daughter, Bailey, raise more than $2,000 for Mercy Corps at her “Run for Relief†3K in August.
Phil Smith (Christian Studies) wrote a review of Virtues and their Vices, which will appear in the Spring 2015 Christians Scholars Review. He also wrote two weeks of devotionals for Fruit of the Vine, published quarterly by Barclay Press.