Sign reads: "God is like... / Pan Am, he makes the going great / Bayer Aspirin, he works wonders / Ford, he's got a better idea. / Hallmark cards, he cared enough to send the best / Pepsi, he comes alive for the younger generation."
Jean Moule, professor emerita, OSU College of Education, begins by explaining her preparation process for this interview, part 2 of 3, which covers the time period after Moule’s graduation from Berkeley in 1967 through the early 1990s before beginning her graduate work at OSU. Moule first discusses her experiences as a student in a teacher education program during the late 1960s, her various jobs during her time in the Northern California area, and her and her husband’s move to Oregon. Moule then describes her family life and experiences, her involvement in the Christian community and how it influenced and affected her teaching, her work with the Talented and Gifted Program, and her various teaching experiences including her time as a substitute teacher and her work with the incarcerated. Original Collection: MSS Jean Moule Papers; for more information: http://wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-multicultural-archives/2012/03/16/jean-moule-papers-2/ Audio File via MediaSpace: http://media.oregonstate.edu/index.php/show/?id=0_mpqfh32u
We then cross the Plain of Rephaim where David put to flight the army of Philistines, and if our trust in the guide were sufficient we might pause to see what is said to be the old site of the tree that made the cross on which the Son of God was crucified. Under the altar of a chapel there the monks show where the stump of the tree once stood, and the Pilgrim falls down and worships it.
Pilgrims are legion, particularly the Russians, a party of whom we see now at a Syrian inn: but there are many others, and they come from all the corners of the earth often in hunger and thirst through the heat, begging food by the way, and sleeping under the stars at night. Their faith is mighty, their zeal a burning flame and their satisfaction intense. Only a soul entirely free from the trammels of the world, can know and kiss the marble slab which covers a hole, from which a tree is said to have been taken two thousand years ago!