Sitting across the desk from me, one of my students was crying. In her seventh year of the combined-degree VMD-PhD program that I direct at the University of Pennsylvania, she had just broken up with her boyfriend—the final straw in an extremely stressful year. Such scenes are not unusual. Our eight-year program is incredibly challenging. […]
There is no external reality. Life is what we perceive it to be. That was Tom’s expressed perspective. There was so much to like about him: his enthusiasm for the subjects he taught; his very dry, but ever present sense of humor; his approachability and forbearance in answering rather stupid questions that I would ask […]
This morning I was extremely busy. A student in my current discipleship group unexpectedly stopped by my office. I almost told him that I couldn’t talk right now. Fortunately, the Spirit reminded me that my life is about making disciples. I dropped what I was doing and we chatted for about 45 minutes. I really […]
