Category Archives: Who? Me?

Top TenEleven Cool Old Guys

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

Today is my birthday, and I’ve been thinking about the kind of old guy I want to become, because it’s happening faster than I would have imagined 20 years ago! In chronological order, here are some cool old guys from … Continue reading →

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Great Debates

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

Great Debate Series First Baptist Church of Forsyth, Georgia (all meetings at 6:30 pm, childcare provided) September 13: Mr. Bill Underwood, President, Mercer University. Issue: The Death Penalty. September 20: Dr. Mark Douglas, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Columbia Theological … Continue reading →

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New Look

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

The blog face lift has ended up a little ahead of schedule thanks to help from Paula Fether of DewDrop Webs. I hope you like it. All that’s left to do is give some of my pages a long-needed revision … Continue reading →

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Camp EDGE VBS

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

Last week was our church’s Vacation Bible School. Zach Kincaid, our church webmaster, put together this video: Everybody had a great time. Thanks to Karen, Julie, and everybody else for giving us yet another banner year! (PS: Rebecca shows up … Continue reading →

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Five Paragraphs

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

Browsing Amazon.com I discovered that Daniel J. Harrington devoted five paragraphs on pages 75-76 of What Are They Saying About the Letter to the Hebrews? (Paulist, 2005) to my published dissertation, thus proving—to my utter astonishment—that more than three people … Continue reading →

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Talk Like a Louisvillian

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

The particular dialectal feature Eric Baković notes at Language Log is not confined to Louisville. My wife and I have somewhat frequent discussions about whether she’s looking for a “pen” to write with or a “pin” to sew with, and … Continue reading →

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Upgraded my hPDA

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

Six or seven Christmases ago, my mom bought me a Personal Digital Assistant; nothing fancy, just a basic model she thought I would like. It didn’t work, and I kept losing the data I entered into it. Likewise the replacement … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years Ago Today

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

… I was taking my entrance exam for the doctoral program at SBTS. I was sure Freddy Krueger would be proctoring the thing. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

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My Thinking Bin

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

A colleague learned a really neat word picture from her almost-four-year-old: the “thinking bin“: Her eyes welled up with tears, and she said, “But Mama, I’m just sad. I’ve reached into my thinking bin, but all I can pull out … Continue reading →

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Where Were You?

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

I was a pastor in Salem, Indiana. I had run out that morning to drop off my registration materials for a community leadership training program and heard the news on the radio. When I got back to the office, Kent … Continue reading →

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