Light and Truth: The Seminary and the University
As some of you know, this farewell has been going on since last October, during Convocation. At that beginning of the end, a number of students made very kind, thoughtful, and in some cases possibly even true remarks, but one in particular has stuck with me as I thought about this evening and what it represented. Robbie Pennoyer '15 said this: "One question persisted through my time at Yale and beyond: Why did Andrew and Felicity come to Berkeley?" Then, after an amusing complimentary anecdote about one of my early morning sermons, he added "He deserved a larger congregation than our set of under-caffeinated grad students." Of course I appreciated the sentiment, but felt myself inwardly answering the question at that very moment. No, I did not deserve, or just as importantly, did not want any other congregation. So to Robbie in absentia, here now is the answer to the first question: we came to Berkeley because we believed that the possibility of leading the work...
