![]() While there, Jack led a group of teachers in establishing “Scribe School,” an institute for biblical languages, exegesis, and pastoral training. Jack, a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University, had been a pastor at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California, for eight years. The relationship and friendship between Jack and me proved interesting and pivotal in the history of MSC. I met Jack Crabtree in 1979 while traveling through Palo Alto and invited him to speak at a seminar for MSC. Centrum for Kristna Studier, while no longer part of Christian Alternatives, stills exists in Sweden. ![]() Together, Centrum for Kristna Studier and McKenzie Study Center formed Christian Alternatives, Inc. Carol’s sister and her husband, Doug and Diane Schell, launched a study center ministry in Gothenberg, Sweden. A year later Doug joined the staff full time, along with Greg Spencer, also a graduate student at the university. Doug Groothuis, a bright, recent graduate of the university, became our first ministry intern. My wife Carol and I were the first staff of McKenzie Study Center. But rather than locating such a ministry in a retreat setting apart from city and everyday community, it seemed important to have such a resource for teaching, research, outreach, and dialogue about Christianity located, as Luther put it, “where the battle rages”-namely, near a secular university community. program in educational foundations.įrom early in the seventies a concept of a study center-something like Francis and Edith Schaeffer’s “L’Abri” in Switzerland-had occupied my thoughts about future ministry. I had finished a seminary degree and had come to Eugene to start a Ph.D. February, 1979, McKenzie Study Center (named for its proximity to the McKenzie River) quietly arrived in Eugene, one block from the University of Oregon campus. It struck me recently that perhaps it would be useful to write some thoughts about MSC then and now with a few reflections to spice the mix. Career DevelopmentLiberal Arts: Education for All Walks of Lifeįifteen years.Mission & Philosophy of Education Statement.
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