Family & Friends, When I was young I did not know what a normal family vacation was. Our family was so close to four other families that we took road vacations together. These families from church became “uncles” and “aunts” and we knew them better than our own wonderful uncles & aunts. The caravan would [...]

Family & Friends, I recently was sending out prayer letters for my summer teaching trip to Kigali for this summer. I got to one and my heart sunk. The letter was addressed to Prof Howard Hendricks. As all Dallas Seminary alum know, “Prof” is very much alive, but neither snail mail nor email have his [...]

Family & Friends, One of the reasons that I love Multnomah is that it seeks to honor those who have served well. Recently, we had a chapel to honor Prof. Daniel Christiansen, soon to be Dr Dan. In our recent cuts, he lost his teaching position after 18 years. Multnomah did not want to loose [...]

Family & Friends, I just had my final class of approximately 25,000 classes periods at Multnomah. Over the 37 years I had approximately 12,000 students in class. I decided to hold class in the Dirks Prayer Chapel in the center of campus. We prayed for Multnomah that it would so prosper that the faculty and [...]

Family & Friends, In preparation for Africa I’m cleaning out old files and boxes. I found a “Clergy Record” from Sept 8, 1975, when I was a young seminary student. That whirlwind day came back in a moment. On this Monday I went to the seminary pastoral ministry office. As I waited, the phone rang. [...]

Family & Friends, It is always enjoyable to sign one of my books for a friend as I did in Jan. 1982. The book was Decision Making and the Will of God and the recipients were Gene & Linda Moore. Doug Moore recently had his parents’ signed book in hand. He stopped me and declared, [...]

Family & Friends, Aslan’s How just finished its competition to pick the college basketball champions. Debbie Chin, who is the unofficial president of Multnomah ruling from her administrative desk, asked if she could join us. She had a lot of questions since every profession is a conspiracy against the layperson. But, we freely offered her [...]

Family & Friends, Our Thursday dinner always includes a discussion at Aslan’s How around the table. This time it was “If you could ask any historical character a question, who would you ask and what question?” Jesus, why did you create Satan? Why did you choose Judas as a disciple? Hitler, what was wrong with [...]

Family & Friends, Recently, Multnomah did a final interview for one of their publications. Theirs will probably be better written, but mine is a “scoop”! Q: “What did you enjoy the most about teaching Multnomah students?” Have students over time changed in terms of beliefs, or have they generally remained the same since you’ve been [...]

Family & Friends, What do you do when God gives you your dream job on day one! You enjoy it for all its worth for 37 years. That is how I feel about my years at Multnomah Bible College which are coming to an end this semester. A year ago Multnomah wisely alerted our Bible/Theology [...]