This Blog is Closed
In February 2008, I began blogging at david-norman.blogspot.com. In the 10 years that have followed, the site has undergone multiple facelifts (some designs tha...
Category: personal
Gratitude
In doctoral studies, it is easy to find oneself isolated in his study carrel, cut off from the outside world. Once he discerns that his specific research intere...
Summer 2016 Bookstack
I’m a little late in getting this posted. Then again, I haven’t exactly been posting regularly since beginning doctoral study. Two years of PhD work...
A Big Step
For almost three years I have been serving as the Editorial Assistant for the Southwestern Journal of Theology and the Assistant for the Center for Theological ...
Joseph Chance: Baptist Pioneer in Illinois
Joseph Chance was born October 11, 1763 in Delaware. Little is known of his childhood, except that his father died when he was very young, and his mother remarr...
Summer 2015 Bookstack
The semester is over. My first year of doctoral study is in the books (and by “in the books,” I mean both that it is complete and that ...
Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles
General Introduction One of the ways that I stay involved in ministry while in seminary is by preaching wherever the door opens. For the past two-and-a-half yea...
PhD Semester 2 Reading List
Last week, I began my second semester in the PhD program at Southwestern Seminary. It’s a tremendous opportunity and honor to be able to continue in these...
Beginning PhD Studies: A Humbling Experience
The egg-head PhD student. This is a thing. PhD students are known to be neck-deep in the stacks of the library poring over the most minute (and obscure) work th...
PhD Semester 1 Reading List
Here we go. This week, I officially begin PhD studies at Southwestern Seminary. (For an idea of exactly what that means, just click here.) This semester I’...