Michael R. Cosby serves as Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Messiah College. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, with a dissertation on the rhetorical structure of Hebrews 11. In 1999, Mike published Portraits of Jesus: An Inductive Approach to the Gospels (Westminster John Knox). This year, he is publishing two works [...]
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16 Sep 09
11 Sep 09
Like others, I still remember where I was when I heard what happened eight years ago–at the beginning of my senior year at Messiah College. It was a Tuesday morning and Tuesday mornings were our time for all-inclusive chapels (several chapel options were available on Thursdays). I think my roommate had been watching something about [...]
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Posted in 9/11, anabaptism, history of Israel, kingship, messiah college
30 Apr 09
This year, Messiah College is losing two retiring New Testament professors: Reta Halteman Finger and John Stanley. I discovered a couple little interviews in Messiah’s student newspaper and thought I would share them here. I never actually took a course with John while at Messiah, but he certainly has been an iconic presence on Messiah [...]
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Posted in John Stanley, Reta Finger, messiah college
30 Apr 09
I noticed an article in Messiah College’s student newspaper addressing the school’s “branding campaign.” From what I gather of the article, the college hires a consulting group (in their case, Crane Metamarketing) to assist them in a process of identity reflection. The process entails an effort to determine what Messiah College offers that comparable Christian [...]
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Posted in messiah college
24 Apr 09
Inside Higher Ed reports that the anonymous millionaire that has been mysteriously donating big bucks to schools (nearing $70 million now) around the country seems to have a pattern: they are all schools with a female president.
If said millionaire, or group of millionaires, happens upon this blog post, I’d like to remind you that Messiah [...]
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Posted in funding, higher education, messiah college
31 Jul 08
This Monica Goodling fiasco just won’t stay buried, I guess. Messiah College has once again had its reputation dragged through the mud (find more in this old post). The Daily Show has taken an even lower blow in its mention of Messiah College. In a “stroll down memory lane” on the show, Jon Stewart covered [...]
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Posted in daily show, jon stewart, messiah college, monica goodling, news
6 Apr 08
This is just an update that Obama accepted the invitation to the Compassion Forum that will be held at Messiah College on April 13th. See my earlier post about Clinton’s announcement to attend.
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Posted in Uncategorized, anabaptism, clinton, compassion, compassion forum, debate, faith, mccain, messiah college, obama, pennsylvania, politics, primary elections
26 Mar 08
I mentioned the Compassion Forum the other day, when we knew the invitations were being considered, but Hillary Clinton has made it explicit: she’s going to participate in the forum at my alma mater (HT: Beliefnet [the article is kind of a watered down version of the press release]). I don’t think this will be [...]
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Posted in anabaptism, clinton, compassion, compassion forum, debate, faith, mccain, messiah college, obama, pennsylvania, politics, primary elections
17 Mar 08
This is something else. Messiah College, my undergraduate alma mater located near Harrisburg, Pa., is going to be hosting the “Compassion Forum” in the evening of April 13th (nine days before the Pennsylvania primary). Invited are Obama, Clinton, and McCain for a conversation on important moral issues that bridge the partisan divide. Check out [...]
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Posted in anabaptism, clinton, compassion, debate, faith, mccain, messiah college, obama, pennsylvania, politics, primary elections
12 Jun 07
Finally, some good press! I’ve blogged a couple times about the bad (and misrepresenting) press that Messiah College has gotten in the wake of the firings under the Attorney General, since Monica Goodling is an alumna of the school (as well as Regent University) [see my posts here and here]. It is an opinion piece [...]
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