50% Off My Book!
And a Fall Exhortation
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For a limited time (until Nov. 30) you can get 50% off my book, John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion! Just use the code CONFSHIP, and Media Mail shipping is free.
John Brown of Haddington was a well-beloved and influential 18th century Scottish pastor. His short book on frequent communion was one of the sources I used in my doctoral work on the subject. I edited it, added some explanatory notes, and republished it so it could reach a wider audience. You can check out my interview about the book with historian Crawford Gribben on the New Books Network podcast.
Letter for Kepler’s Student Magazine
As the Student Life Coordinator at Kepler Education, one of the highlights of my role is to help oversee the publication of our student magazine, The Eccentric. You can check out past issues here. Here’s my letter for the newest edition:
Welcome to the Fall 2025 issue of The Eccentric, Kepler Education’s student magazine! In these pages, you will discover how truly multi-talented our students are here at Kepler Education. As their teachers, of course we know they are something special, but The Eccentric gives us a chance to share their creativity and skills with a wider audience! As the Student Life Coordinator here at Kepler, I am thankful for the leadership of this year’s Student Council. They have worked hard to plan and host exciting events for the Kepler community. We just had our first Kepler-wide Jeopardy game. The knowledge and creativity on display in the game were impressive! Stay tuned for more events throughout the year.
Fall is a wonderful time of year, with the brilliant colors, changing weather, and late afternoon crisp clarity of light glancing on the hills here in Northern Idaho. Every year, I am struck by God’s wisdom in creating and designing the changing seasons. Every Fall, we celebrate the hard work and achievements of the previous Spring and Summer. It is a time to take stock of our lives, and give thanks for all the blessings of the previous year. It is also a time of fading glory, which reminds us that all of our lives will end eventually. All empires, and all nations, fade at some point. This is one of the lessons of history. However, another lesson of history is that virtue and heroism endure. We are still talking about the heroes of ancient wars, centuries later. What will our legacy be? These questions are more urgent for those of us in the middle seasons of life, but it is not too young for you, as Kepler students, to begin thinking about these things. You are in a time of planting the seeds of the rest of your life. You are cultivating a field that will–Lord willing–bear an abundant harvest in the years to come. But fruitful harvests and abundant fields don’t just spring up out of nowhere. They require hard work, self-discipline, and dedication now. Let the promise and reward of the ultimate Harvest motivate you now to pursue further excellence in all that you do (1 Cor. 3:11-15)!
At Kepler, we know that there is more to life than just academics, as important as they are. In this edition of The Eccentric, you will see evidence of the wide range of pursuits of our students: short stories, poetry, photography, recipes, and more! May you glimpse a small portion of God’s Fall-Glory in this issue, and thanks for reading!
Dr. Gregory Soderberg - Student Life Coordinator
