Browsing the archives for the vocation category

24 Jun 07

New Bread internship blog

I have started up a new blog to explore my experience as a Bread for the World intern this Summer. It’s entitled: “Hungry for What, Now?” The question relates to my own search for meaning in vocation, particularly as it relates to poor, hungry people in the world. It also could serve as a challenge [...]

0 Comments Posted in blogging, bread for the world, christianity and culture, social justice, vocation by Patrick George McCullough
29 May 07

Summer internship fighting hunger

It’s official. I’ve received approval from Fuller Seminary’s Field Education Office, and have registered for, a full-time ten-week internship (FE502) with Bread for the World. This fulfills the second internship requirement for my Master of Divinity. I am finishing up the first one (a part-time, three-quarter, church-based internship at Pasadena Mennonite Church) right now. The [...]

1 Comment Posted in bread for the world, hunger, social justice, vocation by Patrick George McCullough
2 Apr 07

Text criticism and why I want to be a scholar

I’m reading through David Alan Black’s New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide for my Exegetical Methods class. It’s a handy little book that just goes through the basics of the field in a quite accessible way. To my surprise, when I joked to my wife that since I was going to go do the [...]

4 Comments Posted in books, textual criticism, vocation by Patrick George McCullough
2 Nov 06

Thinking about the "ugh" and the "mmm"

Since the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is coming up later this month, and it’s my first run-in with the bigwig conference, it may be a good time for me to think about what I am interested in pursuing as a potential scholar. What captures my attention, passions, and interests in [...]

11 Comments Posted in academia, career, community, research, vocation by Patrick George McCullough
27 Oct 06

Super-human Scholar Powers

On his blog, my friend talked about what superpower he would pick of he had a choice for one. He went through the various arguments for and against the different possibilities (like how flying would be cool, but he might get sucked in by the intake valve of a low flying jet-liner). He decided on [...]

2 Comments Posted in academia, career, power, research, vocation by Patrick George McCullough