Impressions on my first ETS meeting
I've been in or around Christian academia for 25 years now, and I have never attended the annual conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) until just last week. Why not? A mix of things. It's not my field. It's expensive. With travel days, it takes out a whole week. As someone entrusted with donor money for Core Academy, I have spent very, very little on conference travel for myself. This year a donor supplied the cost for attending the ETS meeting in Boston. "You have to go. It's important that creationists be there." Who can argue with that? Especially when I'm not footing the bill! So that's how I found myself on a very early flight to Boston last Monday morning. For those unfamiliar, ETS is the main organization for theologians and Bible scholars on sort of the conservative end of the theological spectrum. These would be folks who affirm the inerrancy of Scripture for example. The conference resembled other academic conferences I...