This morning I read an e-mail from my brother who currently resides in Tokyo, Ohio. The ever-teasing heckler, Ben told me that I should have applied to attend Yale, where he received his Master's in Architecture and Design. Today, his jest caused me to mosey over to the Yale Divinity School website to browse the faculty. The only member known to me is Miroslav Volf, whose book Exclusion and Embrace is one of the two on the docket for literary digestion (I will be embracing A. Steward and M. Irvine in the process, and excluding everyone else who wants to read this with us. Perhaps we will feel convicted by the end?). However, a full perusal of Yale's faculty made me again question my decision of graduate schooling. I also received an automated e-mail updating me on NYU Steinhardt's name change to "Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development." I confess that it is easy for me to dismiss an education that I know to be of high quality and thoroughly personal for one that attracts the "big hitters." Perhaps for now I will need to settle for allowing these "big hitters" to continue influencing my thought by way of print rather than a classroom setting.

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Oooh... Exclusion and Embrace is one of my favorites! Let me know what you think of it!!
Dustin, I'm looking forward to chatting with you during the process! If you want to join us, we would love your insight.
I would love to join you! How does it work?
First, be a kisk-ass dude named Dustin (check).
Second, read through the book chapter by chapter (check).
Third, hang out with Mike, Adam, and me to discuss insights.
Thanks for the link. I love Magnolia (as you can tell), and I hope its profound message of grace and reconciliation continues to spread.
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