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276. One Tough Master?

Matthew 25:14-28

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Will Willimon

... didn't hire anybody, made no new courses, just kept office hours and filled out reports." "You wicked and slothful department chair!" said the Dean. ''You heard what I did when I was at Stanford, bow I took names and knocked heads! You ought to have added to the faculty load, set up new courses, taken out ads in the Chronicle and found new majors so that when I returned Newsweek would rate us higher than Princeton! Hard dean, my eye. This is Duke. You've got tenure, for heaven's sake. What could I do to you ...

277. The Inverting Promise

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 · Genesis 25:21-34

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Will Willimon

... in the primal darkness, cosmic, international purposes are being worked out. In the clash of two all too typical brothers, God is dismantling conventional systems of power distribution. And I have a hunch, though an unscientific one, that the majority of us here--students, faculty--are older brothers, so to speak. That is, most of us are fortunate from birth. The cards were stacked in our favor, the stars were right, society blessed us with every advantage to inherit the old man's estate when our time came ...

278. What Time Is It?

Matthew 24:32-44

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Will Willimon

... 's tyranny, measuring time as did my ancestors -- through the gentle passage of seasons, sunrise and sunset, not seconds, minutes, hours, punching in and punching out. I have been conditioned into the chronology of the academy. I used to wonder why faculty meetings lasted so long. Days, weeks spent discussing, evaluating, pondering. The Dean announces that coffee hour has been changed from ten to ten thirty. “Well, I believe we ought to reflect upon that,” says one. “What are the larger issues, the ...

279. The Great Reveal

John 12:20-33

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Lori Wagner

... See also Abraham P. Bos, “A Lost Sentence on Seed as Instrument of the Soul in Aristotle ‘On the Soul,’ 114, 415 B7,” Hermes 138, 3 (2010): 276-287; and Jessica Moss, “The Birth of Belief,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Faculty Papers, NYU. [2] See Daniel Napier, “Why Philosophy,” January 18, 2024, for a discussion of Socrates, who believed that the mind must be properly prepared for reception and nourishment of good seed (sperma). Note Jesus’ similar message of the Kingdom of God ...

280. Jews and Christians: All in the Family

Romans 15:4-13

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Will Willimon

... me in the same way. We cannot render up our belief in Jesus as the Christ as a sort of guilt payment for our past sins against the Jews. That solves nothing. Right after I came here, I received a rather irate phone call • from a faculty member who complained about something one of the fundamentalist Christian groups on campus had done. I tried to tell him that those fundamentalists would probably listen to me less than they would listen to him. But he was upset about their Christian dogmatism and, to him ...

281. Faces at a Funeral

John 18:1-19:42

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Wayne Brouwer

... and safety. He wandered in the wilderness of academia, hoping in each class to find a glorious utopia, a grand dream, or at least a tiny map that might point toward some secularized holy grail. Every term he called me to describe his latest faculty mentor, a true savior, finally, who was worthy of his devotion. But this Saturday something was different. There was wistfulness in my friend’s voice, and a trembling uncertainty in his words. What if there was no big picture, all-encompassing thesis, or ...

282. For Someone of Distinction

Matthew 5:13-16 · 2 Timothy 4:1-2, 6-8

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... here on a regular basis thanks to John. And that not only did John proud, but it provided him with many wonderful experiences. And there were also his years at the University of Buffalo, first as a campus minister, then as an administrator, and then as a faculty member. John’s brilliant mind, his knowledge of a vast array of subjects, his down to earth touch when it came to the courses he taught and the complicated issues he’d discuss, made him a popular figure on the UB campus. And over those years ...

283. For Someone Who Led a Happy and a Virtuous Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 · Matthew 25:31-46 · 1 Corinthians 2:9-10

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Richard E. Zajac

... did what he could for the schools’ benefit. A distinguished football star at South Park High School, he got involved with the alumni, trumpeting whatever the cause that would better the school. And at Canisius College, Marty was instrumental in getting faculty and administration and alumni and student alike to work together to promote understanding, to cherish differences, to respect opposite views, and to develop a social conscience. Marty saw the Alumni not as a group of back slappers, but an integral ...

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