With the premier of the movie version of The Da Vinci Code less than a month away, my seminary has unveiled a new web site: thetruthaboutdavinci.com. The purpose of the site is to provide a point-by-point refutation of many things in the book and (presumably) the movie that are presented as historical “fact” about [...]

Today’s post is a “guest blog” by Shareen Kelly, wife of Westminster Theological Seminary Old Testament professor Michael Kelly. It moved me deeply to consider one more way in which our theology of the eschatological victory of Christ is meant to be “breaking in” to our present time. Shareen wrote this as a letter to [...]

We’ve received an update from Bob the Electrician on the first power lines in Yei, Sudan, in twenty years. You may remember that Bob wrote us a while back after finding our posts about our trip to Sudan last summer. Link to Bob’s first report (with pictures!) is here.
Well here I am once again in [...]

I was delighted today to see a new comment on one of our posts from our trip to Sudan last summer. Bob Dalton is on his way back to Yei Town, where Karyn and I and several others from our church taught and served. In September he helped put in the first utility poles for [...]

I’m pleased to be adding the Reformed Blacks of America web site to my list of links. You’ll find it under the “WTS folk” section, as RBA co-founder Xavier Pickett is a WTS classmate whom I enjoy chatting with at the bookstore. It wasn’t all that long ago that “Reformed” and “Black” were words you [...]

Many of you have followed our story of traveling to southern Sudan with a team from our church. Our community of believers charged us to go not only to do work while we were there, but to be eyes and ears for the Body of Christ back here. We were to go and bring back [...]

I’ve added many new pictures to my post about teaching at the CLIS this past July. All of the pictures were taken by our team photographer/videographer Coury Deeb or his assistant Jesse Allen. Many thanks to Coury for sharing them with me.
If you missed my series about the trip, all the other posts are linked [...]

My friend John from Charlottesville tipped me off to this article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about UVa professor Justin Holcomb. Holcomb has been visiting southern Sudan and training

My LSW (Long Suffering Wife) Karyn has written about her experience training teachers in Yei, Sudan. See her story (with lots of pictures!) here.

CLIS – CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF SUDAN
Pictures in this post © 2005 Coury Deeb: The New Sudan
Each of our eight team members had different roles while in Yei. I had been asked to teach a week-long class at the Christian Leadership Institute of Sudan (CLIS), assisted by teammate Nick.
CLIS BACKGROUND
CLIS is a year-and-a-half old [...]