For those who expected a more regular presence from me on this web site, I have an apology to make and some "splainin" to do. When I set up this web site it was fully my intention to blog once or twice a month and add new content on a regular basis. But life turns out to be what happens when you are making other plans (anyone catch the allusions?). I apologize to the regular visitors who were expecting more.

What happened is that long-range promises combined with once in a lifetime opportunities to create an unsustainable situation. I ended up starting and completing three massive projects, any of which would have been fully worthy of a year’s time. I will report on these in detail at a later time. One you may already be aware of. I am one of the author’s of the Andrews Study Bible which seeks to provide marginal helps that are scholarly in quality but provided to assist readers in the basic questions and accessible to the average person. I wrote the helps for John, the Thessalonian letters and Revelation. I believe there are twelve other authors, each expert in their own parts of the Bible.

Next I wrote some Bible Study guides to the Thessalonian letters of Paul. I was the primary author and this took all of six months in itself. Most recently I became involved in a massive film/TV/Documentary project which was the culmination of a five-year collaboration with colleagues in Australia to provide materials for pastors and lay people to hold Revelation Seminars for both small groups and larger audiences. A set of DVDs was conceived to provide a model for how to teach such a class. The project expanded to include location shooting in Turkey and Greece and the collaboration of some 25 top scholars in the field, thanks to some gracious sponsorships. But that meant doing the whole project (24 one-hour DVDs) in less than three months! Needless to say, I have been working 14 hour days pretty much since the last week of May.

But the bulk of that project is now in the hands of professional film editors, so I am beginning to breathe a little easier. That means I can start to catch up on the many things that fell behind while I was involved in these three projects. I will keep you posted on developments here as things move forward.

The next major event in my life is an office move from Griggs Hall in Loma Linda to the spectacular new Centennial Complex on the north end of the Loma Linda University campus. The School of Religion will be taking up residence on the third floor overlooking the beautiful San Bernardino mountains. The move-in date is September 8. This move will consolidate the School of Religion with its two centers, the Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness and the Center for Christian Bioethics. Hopefully, we will be completely moved in by the middle of September. The bulk of classes will begin the last week of September.