Critters!!! You have an exegesis to get done!!! Get off the effin' computer!!

Dammit!!

Ah, the good old days of a D.L. Moody education. Yes, we were still required to take religion classes in the 90s. A lot of them. Luckily, it wasn't just Christianity, and there was wide latitude in what we could choose to take.

Hehe, my final paper for The Bible in Art, Music, and Literature was on Bob Dylan's born-again conversion and the resulting album. :D

A friend and I registered for a "Pastor's Conference" there--mostly as an excuse to spend a couple of days in the city, but some of the workshops looked okay. When we called to get room assignments or something, the registrar said she couldn't find us and asked for our husband's names. When we said we weren't married, she asked if we were coming with our pastor. When we said we WERE pastors, she said "Oh, no. We don't allow that. This is only for ordained ministers--you, know, men." Then we had to fight tooth and nail to get our registration refunded.

I cannot, for the life of me, imagine you at MOODY!! :rofl:

1991-95. It's still very Moody-esque, with all sorts of arcane ceremonies, etc. 1st year of general religious/spiritual seminar, 3 req'd Christianity classes, and then 2 electives in other religious study. I chose Buddhism and Islam. Damn fine education though. :)

And our school song is Jerusalem, of which I still know all the words. They drilled that song into us the first week of Freshman year. Then, weekly campus meeting every Weds at 10 am, in the chapel.

I'm just glad I went there after it went co-ed. NMH before 1974 must have been sooooo lame.

:hi:

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. :crazy:

The whole New Testament is a propaganda piece put together by Constantine and his cronies. All the events really took place in England, but were "moved" to "The Holy Land" in order to give legitimacy to the Eastern Empire.

Jerusalem was actually Glastonbury, dontcha know? The tree on Glastonbury Tor was grown from Christ's crown of thorns, and the Grail is being guarded by the Fisher King somewhere in North Wales. Apparently, Athens was actually Edinburgh, which is why you'll still hear it referred to as "The Athens of the North" (usually ironically).

Hey, if this stuff was good enough for William Blake, it's good enough for me!

It's not all one way, though. There was an Arab scholar a few hundred years back who maintained all of Shakespeare's plays were actually written by "Sheik Speare." Touché.

And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green
And was the Holy Lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen
And did the Countenance Divine shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here among these dark Satanic mills?

Like I said, drilled into us. I couldn't forget it if I tried, as I had to sing it every week, 9 months a year, for 4 years. It does make me a little sentimental. Once we got to the "arrows of desire" line, all the horny teens would be practically shouting the song out...

:rofl:

...and not feel that Vangelis music start up in their heads.

:rofl:

Too true.

my high school mascot was a goose...so who am I to judge?

Wethersfield Flying Geese. Go Geese!!

A big Pig. :rofl:

Moody was an interesting guy. Congregationalist, but he must be spinnin' to see what the UCC has become. :rofl:

you could be expelled. :D

if they'd seen the parties we used to have. Wine in a box and Red, white and Blue Beer (we were starving graduate students, after all) till the wee hours. And dancin' to Rick James and the B-52s! Those guys that thought Harvard in 1805 was too liberal, well, it's a good thing you can't have a stroke 150 years after your death!

to becoming the "druggie school" of the NE Preps by the early 90s. Crazy.

I still have a place in my heart for old D.L. and his one tined fork. :crazy:

It's one campus now, just Mt Hermon. They're trying to sell Northfield campus, except for the Moody birthplace, Roundtop (where Dwight and his wife are buried), the Dollhouse (a human sized dollhouse he built for his daughter), and the faculty housing. It's sad. Not the same without the two campuses, at all.

in preparation for a sermon. It's Greek. We use it because, well, they made us get Master's degrees so we at least have to sound smart.