By the way, I've finished writing my doctoral dissertation. Yeah, all 280 pages of it, the whole hundred thousand words.

The finishing line is much nearer now than it was five years ago.

And I love God more now than when I first started.

The only thing is, my understanding of God, of the faith, and of the church has changed because of what this rigorous discipline of research has put me through. The peril of discovering things by accident which you never expected to discover. I'll have to decide what I'm going to do about that.

It's been one hell of a journey.