Theodore Roosevelt was such a dynamic candidate that he towered over the President who chose him as running mate. Even though the popular Rough Rider may have helped William McKinley, there is little doubt that McKinley would have won with just about anybody not criminally insane (or at least known to be criminally insane) on the ticket.
I cannot think of one vice-presidenti...
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Here's a cartoon left on my office door by a Torrey student. Charles Wesley turned 300 this year. Who got the mad lyrical flow? I can't hear you...
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Any good catechism includes the Lord's Prayer, broken up line by line and explained. The Heidelberg Catechism includes such a commentary on the Lord's Prayer in its final ten questions (120-129), and it is excellent. Click through to read the full discussion in question and answer format.
From that discussion, I culled the basic interpretation of each line of the prayer...
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Reading hundreds of pages of theology every day, I was in a small group of friends in graduate school who helped each other study. We didn't have much in common except for the looming doctoral exams, and some overlap in our reading assignments. Tired of saying "the group" is getting together, we named ourselves The Dead Chickens. I was a part-time cartoonist back then, so ...
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When I graduated from Biola and got my picture taken with Dr. Cook, I found myself at a loss for words on how best to thank him for his ministry in my life. Did I thank him for presiding so effectively over a school that has shaped nearly every aspect of my life? Did I thank him for being an excellent role model – someone we could all aspire to imitate? Or, did I thank him...
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People who work mainly with intangible things --ideas, interpretations, theories, reviews, explanations-- are exposed to a unique kind of danger. Ideas usually don't kick back at you in a way that forces you to notice. If you make a mistake in interpretation, usually nothing explodes or catches fire. If an academic has a wrong idea and follows it through, he doesn't usually...
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This brief note may not be 36 Views of Mount Fuji, but Dr. Clyde Cook was a mountain of a man: he was tall, for one thing --only 6 foot 3, but he acted so much taller. And his life and legacy repay examination from many angles. Here are the ones that come to mind for me in these days after hearing of his death on April 11, 2008.
A Personal View: When my kids were 4 and 6...
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Dr. Cook was a gentleman.
Think how rare such a simple description must be.
He was as gracious to the person serving the table as he was to the honored guest. Once I saw him, when he could not know I was watching, grow quietly mournful when he heard a student was suffering. Biola is a big place and such compassion in a leader of a major educational institution is perhaps ...
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Go here for a series by Dr. Cook at a sister school, Crown College.
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CLYDE COOK
June 1, 1935 - April 11, 2008
President Emeritus
Biola University
1982-2007
Dr. Clyde Cook served as Biola University's president for 25 years, from 1982 to 2007, with a unique background as an educator, administrator and fourth-generation missionary.
Both his great-grandparents and grandparents were missionaries to China, and his mother followed ...
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See here.
Lives of Power
DR. CLYDE COOK
RHS: Dr. Robert Harold Schuller
CC: Dr. Clyde Cook
RHS: Well, we have different guests every week and today I have one of the most distinguished guests I’ve ever ...
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