This was about an hour-long virtual lecture I did as a breakout class for the ICOC Teachers Service Team conference, The Art of Scripture Reading. I was grateful to be able to do this virtually as the conference coincided with plans for us to bring our family together in celebration of Andy’s and my 35th wedding anniversary. That was one of those things we almost didn’t do — rather self-indulgent, inconvenient, the timing is awkward, it’s expensive, etc. — and I am SO grateful that we did. That’s a story for another post, how it was a wonderful time and we returned home to Ukraine just in time for the declaration of martial law and the beginning of the war (from Ukraine’s perspective) on February 24th, 2022. That’s why the setting for my class is a hotel room in Colorado.
It was an honor to be included in this lineup of known scholars and my own heroes of faith. I was very grateful to have the chance to talk about the fresh discoveries I’ve been making in my personal Bible study, so relevant to the topic of “burnout.”