For Dr. Sidwell’s class “Renaissance,” I wrote a paper about Brunelleschi and the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore.

“‘The Ingenious Man’: Filippo Brunelleschi and the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore”

Not many days ago, some of the teenagers of First Baptist Church of Groton came to BJU for a visit. It was on that trip that Kellen and Morgan met for the first time. If you were one of those teenagers, leave a comment telling the readership how much you enjoyed the trip. If you can’t remember if you went, click on the thumbnail, then look for either your name or someone in the picture who looks like you.

For those in my Sunday School class at Grace Baptist Church who don’t have a copy of the handouts, I have posted them here. I will post future lessons here as well.

“Introduction to Bible Doctrine”

“Bibliology”

“Theology (Proper)”

“Christology”

For Dr. Abrams’s class “British Empire and Imperialism,” I analyzed P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction 1914–1990 (Longman: New York, 1993).

“Analysis of Cain and Hopkins, British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction 1914–1990”

For your amusement, I present an anecdote from the early Renaissance. [Read more »]

This Saturday, the Garland family and I went apple picking in North Carolina. We picked a great many apples of a great many varieties. We then went to Bat Cave, North Carolina, to eat lunch by the Broad River and to get Abby the apple cider she has been talking about since July. If you look in the gallery, you can see photos of the trip, including one of my favorites.

Two of the most faithful and certainly most sarcastic commenters on ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ are Kellen (19 comments) and Morgan (76 comments). Kellen’s gravatar is Plato; Morgan’s is Elmo. Tonight, Elmo and Plato met for the first time at Morgan’s birthday party in the Student Center.

Today is the three-hundred-third birthday of Jonathan Edwards. I noticed this on the blog of the Jonathan Edwards Center, which posted today an essay by John Piper on Edwards as pastor. You should celebrate by reading the biography of Edwards in American National Biography (if you have access to it). Otherwise, try the biography in Wikipedia. Better still, get a copy of and start reading George Marsden’s Jonathan Edwards: A Life. After that, start on the works of Jonathan Edwards at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.