The Difference is Jesus
This past weekend I graduated from Providence Theological Seminary with an MA in Systematic Theology. I had the great honour of delivering the valedictory address at the convocation. Thanks to all my friends and family who were in attendance and who have supported me along this long journey. Below is a copy of the speech I delivered on Saturday: Dr. Johnson, chairman of the board, honored guests, faculty, staff, friends, family, students and graduates. Greetings. It is fitting that our graduation from seminary should be in the season of Easter. Graduation, as you well know, is a time for celebrating, giving thanks, and listening to vain platitudes from those who are appointed to give speeches. I’m afraid I do not have those things on offer for you today. But what I do have is an Easter vision of hope that makes certain the future that graduation promises but cannot deliver. St. Paul begins his epistle to the Romans in the most inflammatory way possible: Paul, a servant of Je