By Kimberly Winston
They are questions every good Sunday school teacher knows to expect: Why does the New Testament include four gospels, telling the story of Jesus’s life four different ways? What was each author trying to persuade us of and did he succeed?
Those questions are central to the work of Michal Beth Dinkler, Associate Professor of New Testament and ancient Christianity at Yale Divinity School. This summer, Dinkler will be the one tackling those questions when she teaches The Danger of a Single Christian Story as part of the YDS Summer Study program.
“Every retelling of a story is an attempt to persuade in some way,” Dinkler said in a recent interview. “And these four gospels show us the importance of context, for the person who is telling the story and for the people to whom they’re telling it. Coming to any biblical text and trying to force it into one kind of capital ’T’ truth is an unimaginative way of understanding God’s work in the world. The New
Friday, May 7, 2021
MARSHALL The Murrell Library and Commons at Missouri Valley College has been awarded a Digital Imaging Grant by the Missouri State Library. This grant consists of Library Services and Technology Act funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
This project is to digitize resources from the library s historic collection of college materials, rare books, documents, photographs and publications from the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church USA and Missouri Valley College history. The library plans to use a single web portal to place these documents online using the brand name VikingScholar.
According to Dr. Bryan Carson, professor and director of Murrell Library and Commons, Digitization of rare and significant resources creates an infrastructure that will have enormous utility for decades to come. These materials go beyond items of local and college interest, such as yearbooks and theses from the early 1900s, and include a numbe
The Rev. Jane Schockey
TORONTO The Rev. Jane Schockey is the new pastor of Hill Top United Presbyterian Church in Toronto.
Schockey was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA) at the end of December and installed as the pastor of Hill Top in mid-January.
A native of the Ohio Valley, having grown up in Bellaire, she pursued ministry following high school, obtaining her bachelor of arts degree in Bible and theology and began leading youth ministry at Calvary Presbyterian in St. Clairsville.
She went on to seminary to receive her master of divinity degree, returning to the Ohio Valley to lead Christian education at Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, where she is employed part-time as its church administrator.
The Murrell Library and Commons at Missouri Valley College has been awarded a Digital Imaging Grant by the Missouri State Library. This grant consists of Library Services and Technology Act funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Awarded Project Number 2021-LSD1-DIG21-074.
This project is to digitize resources from the Library’s historic collection of college materials, rare books, documents, photographs and publications from Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church USA and Missouri Valley College history. The Library plans to use a single web portal to place these documents online using the brand name VikingScholar.
According to Dr. Bryan Carson, Professor and Director of Murrell Library and Commons, “Digitization of rare and significant resources creates an infrastructure that will have enormous utility for decades to come. These materials go beyond items of local and College interest, such as yearbooks and theses from the early 1900s, and includ