I have officially become the new Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) On-Campus Student Representative (OSR) at Fuller Seminary. What is that, you may ask? The OSR is a student member of SBL who represents SBL to the students of that institution. Some of the things that the OSR does is to recruit student members and disseminate information about the goings-on of SBL to those student members. For more info, check out the webpage for SBL’s Student Advisory Group (SAG), under which all the OSRs serve. You can also catch a job description and see other discussions and announcements on the SAG discussion board.

I was happy to discover that my friend and fellow Pasadena Mennonite Church member, Matt Hamsher, just began serving as the Student Liaison for the American Academy or Religion (AAR) at Fuller this year.

This is a particularly interesting year to serve in such a role since Fuller will be hosting the regional meeting for WECSOR (the regional organization for SBL and AAR — we’ve got too many acronyms going on here). So, in the coming months, I will be looking for ideas on how best to be an OSR at Fuller during such a time and would appreciate any feedback that you might have for me.