Isaac's first solo class

The boy started school last week - for the first time as a teacher! He was hired as an adjunct professor at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. His first class is 'Christian Ethics in Conflict.' Here is the course description:

"CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN CONFLICT (Columbia Theological Seminary): Christian ethics is born out of conflict. This statement refers to both the history of Christian ethics as an academic discipline and the ongoing call to pursue a faithful Christian life. Christian ethics thus brings us face to face with the conflicts and crises that inform our very being. In this course, we will examine issues such as climate change, violence, capitalism, racism, and sexism with the belief that they present challenging opportunities for critical engagement and transformation. We will reflect on what it means to respond to these challenges faithfully as practicing Christian ethicists and how we might account for those responses."

This actually brought back memories from my first ethics class. My eyes were certainly opened to so many things I'd never even considered. It was such a breath of fresh air from the conservative evangelical teaching I'd received up to that point. It truly was a transformational experience for me, and one I am so thankful for. Hopefully it can be for the 20 or so students in his class as well.

I believe today is also Isaac and Ricci's 8th wedding anniversary. My how time flies. That was such a fun time. Looking back through the pictures on Facebook makes it seem so long ago though.

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Romans 12:1-2

"So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."