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Audience: Who’s listening to your speaking-writing? How do they influence it? Many writing teachers say it is important to imagine an audience when you write. This is because writing is for readers, not just for a grade. When you are speaking to someone, for example, and they give you a confused look, you usually sense…
What’s the Occasion for your writing? What motivates you to write? Imagine that you are writing to solve a problem, or to answer a complicated question, or even to help others by providing them with information. The question “Why do you write?” is a question about occasion. The idea of occasion is all about a…
Defining the Church The new UBF history website created in 2013 attempts to define “church” on this page. After that, it tries to build a case, based on this definition, for UBF’s chapter structure. The definition of church used, however, is simplistic at best, and biblically and church-historically inaccurate at worst. In other words, there are…
Summary David Allan Black’s Why Four Gospels? The Historical Origins of the Gospels is “essentially a popularization” of Bernard Orchard’s “Fourfold Gospel Hypothesis” and a critique of the Markan priority hypothesis.[1]This brief volume is meant primarily for the use of theological students in an academic climate that is uncritically acquiescent to the assumptions of Markan…
Summary I was first exposed to David Allan Black’s New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide in a second semester Greek class at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Revisiting this helpful work has been profitable, not only because its extremely succinct approach thrusts readers into the world of textual criticism’s purposes, materials, history and methods (Ch.…
Summary In The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, Keller, the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, gives readers “a distillation of the many conversations I’ve had with doubters over the years.” [1] The work is divided, in its first half, as “a pathway that many… Christians have taken through doubt,”…
What follows are just the main headings of the sermons delivered in the 2014 New Life Bible Conference. Whatever details I selected from my notebook to put under the headings are only things that stuck out to me. They might not represent what the preachers may have deemed most central to their sermons. Check out my…
Since 2003, it seems that in one way or another–formally or informally–I’ve been tutoring and/or teaching academic communication (oral and written), to friends, fellow church members, peers, professors, and medical professionals. My background is in English Composition (B.A. 2008), Linguistics (M.A. 2011), and Theology (M.Div., in progress). Having taught English as a Second language (at several Chicago…
Experience My experience in English teaching and freelance copy writing, proofreading, editing, and consulting in academic communication writing can be summed up as follows: Proofreading/Editing Freelance editor, Student Network Resources (2012); Freelance Editor, Access Medical (2012); Graduate assistant editor for Dr. Greg Scharf (conference papers), Trinity International University (2012); Other freelance editing for dozens of…