I need to pepper my lectures and tweets with expletives. Otherwise, I’ve sounded like Mitt Romney instead of Mark Driscoll. I had a phase back in middle school when I used bad language to try to sound cooler in front of other boys, but in recent years, I’ve only used naughty words when quoting Brigham Young sermons. I’ve never been a gun guy anyway.Īfter reading about the evangelical heroes of the last fifty years, I also need to loosen up a bit. For that, I will need a gun, or at least a crossbow, which might actually be cooler. Birding is fine, as long as it’s shooting birds. Baking is out, MMA is in, though I don’t know what the acronym stands for. Things I currently like include tennis, watching The Great British Baking Show (gulp), and birding (double gulp). My out-of-the-classroom hobbies need retooling.
See Eric Metaxas, who also has way better hair than I do. It’s not impossible to be a manly evangelical scholar.
Go into the classroom with a camo tie or jacket? Maybe a camo tie and jacket? At least a camo mask for this fall? There is hope. Maybe I could rebrand myself as a scholarly warrior. Being a professional historian and a Professor of Religious Studies is not exactly airborne ranger, wild at heart, spiritual badass stuff.
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