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What you will find in this email:
- Network Mission
- Interview: President Ben Merkle, New Saint Andrews College
- Links to our Sponsor: Fight Laugh Feast Conference
- Our Upcoming Events Schedule
- News articles that we read throughout this past week
Dr. Ben Merkle
Fellow of Theology Dr. Ben Merkle is the college’s second president and previously served as the undergraduate dean. He holds a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies and an M.St. in Jewish Studies from Oxford University, England; an M.A. degree in English Literature, and a B.S. in Education (Secondary Education-Chemistry, with a minor in History) both from the University of Idaho. He also studied theology at Greyfriars Hall from 1998 to 2000.
Dr. Merkle served as a lecturer at New Saint Andrews from 2000 until 2005, when he was promoted to fellow of theology. He has taught the freshman introductory theology course, Lordship Colloquium, as well as Hebrew. He has also team-taught Anglo-Saxon.
Dr. Merkle was promoted to the office of president in 2015.
He has served as a minister at Christ Church, Moscow. He previously served as a part-time campus minister with Collegiate Reformed Fellowship, a campus ministry of Christ Church.
Dr. Merkle is the author of The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2009) and Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate: The Elohistae (Oxford University Press 2015). He is a contributing editor and former managing editor of the periodical Credenda/Agenda.
He and wife Bekah (B.A., 1998), the first graduate of New Saint Andrews, have five children.
Corporate Partner
OneHat Technologies
OneHat Technologies is a software development company.
Their motto is: “Software craftsmanship to the glory of God.”
OneHat builds custom apps of all kinds:
– Business apps
– Mobile apps
– Web apps
– Desktop apps
– Even apps for smart home devices
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OneHat also builds custom websites, and provides hosting solutions of all sizes.
OneHat’s core values are truth, goodness, and beauty, which shine forth in every app they create.
They are striving to live out the lordship of Jesus Christ in the technology world.
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Visit our corporate sponsors–Classical Conversations, Samaritan Ministries, One Hat Technologies, Subsplash, Logos Online School, New Saint Andrews College.
Upcoming Events
Grace Agenda
School of Practical Christianity
August 14th and 15th | MOSCOW, IDAHO
Fight Laugh Feast Conference
Registration is Live!
News
The Moscow Order:
Idaho Data: No deaths under 50yrs in Idaho and over 80% (low) are above the age 70yrs old.
Richmond mayor invokes emergency powers to remove Confederate statues from city
Virginia law
PA Governor Signs Order Requiring Masks in Public