Day 65 (10/29 - Thurs)

Today was the day many people at Wheaton have been working toward for a long time. Tonight marked the official opening of the new Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies. And as the Classics guy on campus (and the only person teaching Latin, and one of only a few teaching Greek) I get to be a part of this! We had a fancy-pants dinner:


followed by the inaugural lecture given by Dr. Robert Louis Wilken (out of U Virginia), which was very stimulating.

I have to say that it feels *very* good to be connected with the only center for Patristics studies attached to an evangelical school in the nation. It's sort of ironic really... ten years ago I actually visited Catholic University of America out near DC and talked with the faculty that teach Patristics since I was interested in studying it. But I opted for the more traditional Classics route, and I have loved every minute of it. And now, here I am, the Classics professor at Wheaton College, being invited to participate with a new center for Patristics studies on the early church. God is good.