I wouldn’t mind initiating some kind of “student watch” on this blog, though I fear many of my former students wouldn’t necessarily appreciate it. My feelings of affection and sometimes pride (not the kind that pretends that I have anything to do with it, but the good kind) may not be reciprocated. But I’ll do one anyway and if the fallout is too great, I may resist in the future.<\/p>\n
There are a number of IBEX students who have gone on to do Ph.D. work, but Preston Sprinkle may be the first to actually finish. We had one student get his M.D., but that’s cake compared to a Ph.D. in biblical studies, in my opinion (just add up the number of years it takes). Preston was well on his way to great things when he passed through IBEX in the wonderful fall of 1999. He later married another IBEX alum and since completing his Ph.D. has accepted a professorship at Cedarville University. He is interviewed at this blog<\/a>, and you may note the mention of his semester in Israel. Elsewhere, you can read about his doctoral dissertation<\/a>. He is clearly brilliant. May the Lord bless his teaching, his family, and his walk with Christ. He married into one of my favorite families, but that’s a story for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wouldn’t mind initiating some kind of “student watch” on this blog, though I fear many of my former students wouldn’t necessarily appreciate it. My feelings of affection and sometimes pride (not the kind that pretends that I have anything to do with it, but the good kind) may not be reciprocated. But I’ll do one\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}