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A wonderful bonus and a blessing…

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A couple months back, I approached colleagues and former students to raise money for the purchase of new Greek New Testaments for the first and incoming PhD class at the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa. These folks were so generous and over-subscribed the fund drive!

Atlas by AtlaAnd their generosity overflows… A number of them agreed to redirect their gift to help the CSP Library sponsor a subscription for the seminary to ATLAS, an online resource from the American Theological Library Association, with full-text copies of articles from over four-hundred theological journals. This database is the premier research tool in the world for theological scholarship. Because of this blessing by these donors, the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa now has this resource available for its students. It want live today and I have already accessed it.

And the students in my classes this fall will be using it often in my classes!!!

Moodle site

Moodle is ready…

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Another milestone of my preparation is complete. I have installed the Moodle Learning Management System on my virtual server and I have built out course sites on it for both of the classes I will teach this fall at the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa. All course materials will be available through the password-protected Moodle site and the LMS will be the means by which students will submit their written assignments. I am accustomed with teaching using an LMS and am pleased that I can offer this tool to the students.

Although both electricity and the internet are spotty in Ethiopia, I was able to test components of the server during my last visit to Ethiopia and it performed well, even on a mobile phone!

I am looking forward to working with the PhD students in my classes.

Syllabi ready

The approaching time . . .

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This week I finished the syllabus for Advanced Hermeneutics, the second of two courses I will teach this fall at the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa. It is a sure sign that, in just over a month, my travels begin with teaching beginning the last week of August. My reading list is long and I still must build the Moodle course sites.

So many have been helpful and supportive as I prepare. I am very appreciative. The time is approaching.

GAthering at MYS

Launching a PhD program

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During our recent travels to Ethiopia, Rhoda and I were able to participate in the launch festivities for the new PhD program at the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa.  The EECMY is the largest Lutheran church in the world (12 million members). It is an honor to be part of this project and to be teaching in it this fall in Addis.

President Bruk
Gathered faculty and guests
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Unexpected Generosity

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Shortly after I accepted the invitation to teach this fall at the Mekane Yesus Seminary, a colleague there asked if I could raise money and bring ten new Greek New Testaments for the first class of PhD students. Resources for them are limited and sourcing these books is challenge. My desire was to get for them the premier research edition, the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 28. I sent emails to about thirty colleagues, friends, and former students. Within a week, the request was fully subscribed, and more. The first ten copies are on their way!

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