November 2009
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The Sun Don't Go Down
How often do you talk about death? Not often I imagine. It’s a topic that we naturally avoid, until we find ourselves face-to-face with it. If you’ve never been exposed to death, you usually avoid discussing it because it’s a foreign and dreadful thing. If you have experienced it, the consideration of it typically calls up unpleasant emotions.
In the seminary over the past couple weeks,...
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Seminary Life: Part 3 - Student Life
Currently there are about 150 students attending. Nearly all of them are from Armenia. There is only a handful from the Diaspora. There is one student from Syria, another from Iraq, and I’m told there is a student from Germany, though I haven’t met him yet. He’s doing a really good job of blending in. Students who come from Georgia or Karabakh are also called Diasporans, but kind...