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I am writing from my hotel room in Dallas across the street from the beautiful campus of Southern Methodist University. As noted in a previous post, last night I gave a lecture to about 75 students and faculty entitled “The American Bible Society and the Creation of the Christian Nationalism.” The lecture was drawn from Chapter One and Chapter Two of the project. Some of you who have been following along will remember that these were the two chapters that served as my “sample chapters” for potential publishers. Last night was the first time I shared my ABS research in a public forum of this nature and I got some good questions from the audience that will force me to do a better job of refining my arguments.
As I spent time editing the lecture on the plane from Philadelphia to Dallas I realized that the prose in these chapters still need a lot of work. What I thought was in pretty good shape in August now seemed overly wordy and full of extraneous information that was unrelated to my argument.
On a related matter, the demands of my academic life at Messiah College combined with my visit to Dallas made for a very unproductive writing week. While I continue to do background reading for my chapter on the ABS benevolent empire, I have still not started writing the chapter. Here’s hoping for a return next week to a more regimented writing schedule.
Most of the research is now in place for the story of the ABS through World War I. It is now a matter of putting that research into accessible prose. Stay tuned.
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