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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

NEH021 - Ezra's Metaphorical Homecoming to His Metaphorical Alma Mater is a Disaster

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Ezra 9:1-3 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Music by Jeff Foote

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0:00.0

So, Okay, I do not know exactly what tone to strike for the thing that I want to talk about for a couple minutes here as we're getting into Ezra today

0:28.0

because I don't want anybody to feel criticized, but I do feel strongly about it, so I'm just going to do my best and I don't know I like everybody I don't want to be mean

0:36.2

It's this is what I feel and this is how the things are I visited my alma mater a few months back here. Trinity College for a while there was called

0:45.0

Trinity International University. It's on the north shore of Chicago in the

0:49.8

suburbs. It's really a beautiful campus. Obviously I went there as a young man. I was 18 years old. I didn't know anybody when I walked on to that campus. People were cool. I made a bunch of lifelong friends. I met my wife on my first day of school in my very first class. That philosophy professor in that

1:06.8

class not only taught me how to think, but he also bummed a ride out to Nebraska where

1:11.4

we got married and read Robert Burns poetry at our wedding while I wore a kilt and bagpipes played.

1:16.8

It was just rad.

1:17.8

It was one of the coolest things ever.

1:19.4

So it was a great experience being there and it wasn't the perfect immaculate campus but it was lovely it was

1:24.6

clean it was nice a bunch of trees and everything you were right in the middle of

1:28.7

Chicago Bowls Chicago Bears land and it just, it was a neat experience and for the most part,

1:35.8

I would say I really enjoyed it.

1:37.3

Well, as I was saying, I went back there a few months ago because I'd heard that some pretty

1:42.3

big changes were happening.

1:43.5

Well it turns out the big changes are that they're closing it.

1:46.0

It's just not going to be a campus anymore.

1:48.0

I don't know if they've come up with a deal to sell it or what.

1:50.0

I'm sure that land is worth a crazy amount of money, but it's gone.

1:54.8

It's shutting it down and that's it.

1:56.2

Maybe they're going to do some online classes or something.

1:57.9

I don't know.

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