Category: News
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The Two Cities Podcast is Here!
Read more: The Two Cities Podcast is Here!We are thrilled to officially launch The Two Cities Podcast. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker, Radio Public, and a few other podcast platforms. Please subscribe and write us a review as it helps spread the word! Today we are launching three episodes to kick off the podcast. Here…
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Announcing: The Two Cities Podcast!
Read more: Announcing: The Two Cities Podcast!We are so thrilled to announce that coming soon in the next few weeks we will be launching The Two Cities podcast! Be on the lookout, and be sure to subscribe and spread the word when the new pod arrives. We began this blog back in the summer of 2011. Back then blogs were very…
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From Academic to Blue-Collar Theologian
Read more: From Academic to Blue-Collar TheologianIt’s been seven months since I have been involved in Biblical-Academic pursuit. In that time I’ve transitioned to a fairly normal blue-collar job, taken up interest in a career path in fitness (shameless plug: if you’re looking for coaching, I do Powerlifting, Bodybuilding and General Fitness!), got engaged and started planning a wedding. My primary…
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Manchester Honours Alan Turing
Read more: Manchester Honours Alan TuringAlan Turing (1912–1954) is kind of a big deal around Manchester, especially at the University. Whenever I have guests visiting me here, I always make it a point to tell them about Alan Turing and to show them some his old office on campus. I’ll give a (very) brief bio about Alan Turing before mentioning…
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How to Succeed After College
Read more: How to Succeed After CollegeThree years ago today, I envisioned that 2018 would consist of finishing a Master’s degree and beginning a Ph.D. program in Theology and Christian Ethics en route to becoming a professor of Christian Ethics at a prestigious university’s divinity school. Two months ago, I envisioned that 2018 and the few years following would consist of a…
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Lessons from Istanbul – Has Biblical Scholarship Forgotten Its Mission?
Read more: Lessons from Istanbul – Has Biblical Scholarship Forgotten Its Mission?Whelp, I guess this is now a travel blog. For the holidays, my wife and I traveled to Istanbul to spend time with my family. Neither of us had been to Turkey before, so every prior conception of this place was about to be challenged. I kept joking that my only frame of reference was…
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How Not to Seminar Well
Read more: How Not to Seminar WellThe best way to learn how to seminar well is to learn what not to do and, in desperation, avoid those things. Here is a list to help those who may be seminar instructors or participants alike engage in a thoughtful, provocative, and effective seminar. First, we must ask ourselves “what is our goal?” This…
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The Two Cities turns 6!
Read more: The Two Cities turns 6!We’re so very excited to say that tomorrow marks the 6th Anniversary of The Two Cities blog! Many thanks to all of you who have read and engaged our blog posts over the years. It really means a lot to us and we’re looking forward to more of it. We’ve recently come off of a…
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Experiencing Eastern Orthodoxy and a Recommendation
Read more: Experiencing Eastern Orthodoxy and a RecommendationMany years ago when I was new to biblical faith and largely unaware of other belief systems outside of my own (or at least of the couple congregations I had attended), I met a co-worker who described himself as ‘Eastern Orthodox’. At the time I met him I had been a Christian for only a…
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A Snippet of Wisdom
Read more: A Snippet of WisdomBefore we left for the UK my wife and I joined one of my graduate professors (and dear friend) for dinner with his family at his home. He gave me lots of needed advice about working on my PhD as he himself worked through his at the University of Aberdeen many years ago. One piece…