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HANGING OUT WITH THE POWER CROWD
Fuller Seminary recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with the inauguration of the President’s Lectureship in early November. The four speakers included such heavy hitters as Carl F. H. Henry (theologian), Samuel Hugh Moffett (professor emeritus of ecumenics and mission at Princeton), Mary Steward Van Leeuwen, professor of interdisciplinary studies at Calvin College and Cary Wisiger III, retired pastor. Wisiger displayed characteristic humility in opening his address, in the company of such academic luminaries as follows: I have been a pastor, by the grace of God. If I could do it all over again, I would be a pastor. I have never, frankly, regarded myself as a scholar. I have tried to be studious and I want to thank Dr. David Hubbard for including me in this program today. A farmer once put his mule in a horse race and his friends said to him, “Silly, that mule can’t run with those thoroughbreds.” The farmer said, “I know it,…

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