Hello Everyone:
I’ve been planning for quite a while now to finish my bachelors degree at Lipscomb. However, my wife is in the middle of getting accepted into nursing school here in Portland, which means that we will be here for another 2 - 3 years. I am graduating with my AA (with honors) in June.
So, I finally broke it down and figured that if we are going to spend the next 2 - 3 years in Portland, that I might as well finish by bachlors degree so that I can be ready to enter graduate studes at Lipscomb, which is what I really want to do anyway.
So, I’ve applied to Marylhurst University. Marylhurst is Portland’s other Catholic college. Its very heavy on the liberal arts, and it is quite a bit more progressive than the University of Portland. I plan on concentrating in Social Philosophy and Christian Ethics while there. This is a new direction for me, I’ve only taken one philosophy class at Clackamas, but I really enjoyed it (or at least the part of it that focused on social and political philosophy, and ethics) and I think a focus on these two disciplines will be helpful when applying to graduate programs in history.
Most of my reading lately has been on the American Civil War, which is one reason of several I haven’t been blogging lately. I’ve just been trying to get a good background in what happened during that period in American History. I’m hoping to finish in that area for a little while and get back into theology and church history, and resume blogging more frequently. We’ll see.
Josh