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Lexington Theological Seminary : 2002 Seminar

Narrative

It’s Midnight for Theological Reflection

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It was midnight, two hours past her normal bedtime. But this night found Professor York sitting in the bleachers at the Soccer Blast arena watching theological students being humiliated in a coed match. The good professor couldn’t sleep. She had heard that her students were playing indoor soccer under the biblical name, the Samsonites, and that they were competing at hours when, in previous generations, students “burned the midnight oil.” So she got dressed and drove over to witness this event.

The Samsonites definitely had been shorn of their strength against a younger, more skilled, better-conditioned opponent. Suddenly Wayne, age 28, an average seminary student, but a less-than-average soccer player, got the wind and pride knocked out of him in a collision with a coed of the opposing team...

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