Mike Cope: "Come to Malibu!"

A nice invitation from the new leader of the Pepperdine Lectures, Mike Cope: "Come to Malibu!" 

Mike writes:

So much will be happening that I’ll tell you about over the coming months. But I especially want to encourage you to prepare for a study of Revelation. Many have shied away because the book seems so, well, weird; others have kept an arm’s length because of the bizarro interpretations of the book floating around popular culture.

If you’re a minister or Bible class teacher, let me encourage you to plan to do something on Revelation in the summer or fall of 2013. Come to Malibu—tough gig that it is!—April 30-May 3, 2013, to help in your preparations.

Here are some resources I’d like to recommend if you want to get a head start:

Michael Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly

Eugene Peterson, Reversed ThunderBarbara Rossing, The Rapture ExposedN. T. Wright (of course!), Revelation for Everyone

One of my very favorite resources will come out at the lectureship: Dr. Greg Stevenson, who teaches at Rochester College, has a new book called A Slaughtered Lamb: Revelation and the Apocalyptic Response to Evil and Suffering that is amazing. He will be one of the resource scholars, along with James Walters of Boston University (and others).