Veritas

Good Evening. The seasons are quickly changing as most of the leaves have gently fallen and the chill of winter is blowing in. The forecast called for snow flurries Thursday evening, yet the view Friday morning from our window showed none of that white magic. Joshua and I are anticipating the inaugural snowfall of the season: a highly criticized opinion, as most people here are already counting down the days until summer. This past week was filled with various activities and varying degrees of interest. Christmas shopping, babysitting and work filled our days, while the two highlights of the week were the Veritas Forum and Divsgiving. The Veritas Forum is an event done at many different schools all across the nation that feature two speakers (usually one who identifies with the Christian faith and one that does not). This years event at Yale featured Dr. Kagan, a philosophy professor at Yale, and N.T. Wright, a New Testament professor at St. Andrews University in the UK. The discussion is meant to be friendly and they try to avoid the word debate. It was a nice evening and the discussion failed to even reach the anticipated topic, Living Well in the Light of Death, because both the professors were asking many questions of each other. I appreciated the ability of the men to be honest with each other and admit the difficulties within their views. The event took place in Battell Chapel, another beautiful place on campus we had yet to see.

 The following morning Joshua got to have breakfast with N.T. Wright and a small group of students. Last night was Divsgiving, an annual meal with the other Divinity students. I made some challah rolls and we sat and talked with our friend Jonathan. It is nice that we are beginning to really develop friendships among some fellow students. Joshua has one more week of classes then gets to take a week off for Thanksgiving. We will be headed to my parents house on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving and spend a couple of days there. We are happy to see everybody and get some time away from New Haven. Work is still a learning experience and I am very grateful to have a job but have decided I do not want to do this for the rest of my life. Hopefully next school year will open up some opportunities for me to get a job in a school again. I am still looking at some schooling programs and trying to decide what I would like to do. Other than that we are having fun and love all of you guys! Love, Joshua and Alissa