Great to hear from you! I was just thinking about you the other day, wondering how you were doing?

My life is going well. I’ve been trying to read whatever I want these days, especially Barth and Edwards’ philosophy on the Trinity. Sang Hyun Lee has a cool book called “The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards.” It’s great because he basically calls Edwards a process theologian. Good try professor Lee…haha.

Anyhow, so you’re going to be finished with your MA. That’s great! Good job on getting through that. Not an easy degree by any means. Regarding myself and my future ambitions, I might start applying for PhD programs in the next year or two. I’m thinking of Princeton.

Here’s the inside scoop about Fuller: it’s an awesome education but you get out of it what you put into it. What I mean by this is that there’s a lot of ‘hoop jumping’ to get the degree, but I believe it’s worth it–especially the systematic theology and church history segment. If I were you, however, I’d go to Princeton Seminary or Yale Divinity School. Princeton has the best theological library in the world in addition to the best faculty. They’ve also got all the Barth scholars as well.

Whenever you get over here to the Seattle area, let me know and we’ll get together for coffee and talk about it. Big Josh is applying to Duke and TCU for ThM programs. I would be too save the fact that I have huge student loans, uggggg…

Later, and here’s my email: philhigley@hotmail.com

How’s life? Applying to PhD programs at all? I have been thinking about applying to Fuller, and I was wondering if you could give me the inside scoop. I know a bit about it already thanks to our conversations. I’m thinking about MA in Theology, or something that could give me biblical languages.

I’m going to be done with Gonzaga by August, so I’m trying to plan ahead. I’ve thought about PhD programs, but I’m a little burned out with philosophy at the moment. Could use a dose of theology.