How Not to Evade the Draft

How Not to Evade the Draft
1 Samuel 10: 17- 11: 13

I am sometimes asked why I am so involved with the Old Testament, and I have various answers. I may talk about two great Old Testament teachers I had, one at university and one at seminary. I may refer to the fact that I had learned Greek before I came to study theology, so I was freer to focus on Hebrew than most students. I may talk about the way the Old Testament keeps talking about God’s involvement in life as it really is. All those are true. In a similar way, I am sometimes asked how I came to be teaching in the United States, and again I have various answers. I may talk about a meeting with the previous president of Fuller Seminary. I may say that the dean of the School of Theology kept e-mailing me, and it was the only way to get him off my back. I may say I wanted to get out of running a seminary, to get back into being just an ordinary professor. All those are true, too. As a consequence, it might be hard for someone to piece together the actual stories about how these things happened...