Missionary Gas

Javier Montoya,  a Colombian pastor and ongoing Seminary student,  wrote for advice about an essay he was preparing on the book of Revelation.     It concerned the 24 elders around the throne of the lamb.      He explained how he was tackling the topic and wanted to know how to approach the subject exegetically. His email finished with a brief PS: "This week I was robed of my car with all my study materials,  computer, documents,  books and iPhone.  They abused and beat me.   But I'm well.   Thanks be to God" Seminary students,  Colombia

Cuba brings up images of cigars,  smoked filled bars,  and red coloured pictures of Che Guevara. How out of date we are was revealed in an email from a lecturer supervising MTh students on that island.    For the first time theology is being taught at this level.   Evangelicalism is outliving Don Fidel's atheism. For students it means there are no theology theses available in libraries.    Rumour had it Recursos Teológicos had some online.   Where are they?   A few hours later they were being looked at not through cigar haze but in the vibrant atmosphere of an evanglical seminary. ¡Viva la revolución!  Studying the gospels in Moyobamba