Category: Education

• The Flesh Becomes Word

  10 years ago I was putting the final touches on my dissertation for a Doctor of Ministry in Preaching degree through Chicago Theological Seminary: “The Flesh Becomes Word: Embodied Preaching and Congregational Response.” I’ve attached it below in case you’re interested. In the meantime, here are three stories about the writing process. The first story…

  Benjamin Broadbent

  March 1, 2022

  Church, Education, Family, Theology, Writing

  Charles Bartow, Chicago, Chicago Theological Seminary, Preaching, T.S. Eliot

• The Best, Most Boring, Book Ever

  That would be Ulysses by James Joyce. A year ago right now I was reading it and finishing it was my major Covid accomplishment. In the fall of 1998, I was living in New York City, in the East Village, with my girlfriend, Brooke, who is now my wife. I had recently graduated from Harvard…

  Benjamin Broadbent

  February 28, 2022

  Education, Writing

  Beth Blum, Cooper Union, Covid, East Village, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Gazette, James Joyce, Ulysses, Virginia Woolf

• I Read a Book Once

  Recently I realized I’ve done my post-high school education in three regions of the country where my four grandparents were from. As an undergrad, I attended Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, the Pacific Northwest. My grandmother Broadbent grew up in Seattle. For my Masters, I went to Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My…

  Benjamin Broadbent

  February 17, 2022

  Education, Family

  ACTS, Chicago, Chicago Theological Seminary, CTA, Harvard Divinity School, Pacific University, Throat Cancer