fun stuff

i'm writing from wilmore, kentucky... at asbury theological seminary. i'm here for meetings with my US advisor, Joel Green. i woke up at 3:45, left at 4:30, and arrived here at about 10:30. very tired! it wasn't a bad drive... mostly good traffic, except a bit around Cincy.

my 11am meeting with Dr. Green was great... he's very differnt from Dr. Nolland, my UK advisor. Dr. Nolland is a man of few words and very much hands-off when it comes to direction. Dr. Green is more talkative, and much more hands-on (offers more suggestions, advice, asks a lot of questions... etc.) it's cool to have both...

we met for about an hour and a half... very productive. boiling my dissertation questions and scope down to a more manageable level... going to mostly focus on the extant literary evidence rather than doing a more historical approach. i want to get more into theology than just doing a pure historical recreation.

asbury is a lot like ashland... very small town (about 4000), not too far from Lexington. Green lives in Lexington... bet most of the staff does. not much here! very beautiful though.

another little cool thing... is sent an email to NT Wright, and he replied! a rather brief reply, but still very nice... i let him know how much i (and the other pastors) appreciated his work, and also asked him some questions about 'miracles'.

well, will update y'all later... i'm going to do some reading and then hit the sack. oh, yeah, i signed-up on audible.com... very cool, because i have a free trial... i listened to The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb on the way down (at least 4 hours of it). it's a big history of western philosophy... very good! i've burned it to CD, so anyone can borrow it when i'm done.

i'm also enjoying Tom Clancy's Teeth of the Tiger. another good book everyone should read: How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler (i think)... very excellent.