Gordon-Conwell Blog  Compass: Theological Expedition | Seminary
Student Blogger  July 26, 2012  This is the second installment
in Dim's series chronicling his and Gayles' adventure this
summer through Compass. Read Part 1 here. Enjoy!  Dim Alldridge
‘Fresh’ from having not taken a shower for 9 days in the
Adirondacks, the Compass students arrived back in South Hamilton
ready for some much needed (and requested!) ablutions and facing
a whole new set of challenges which we call the Theological
Expedition.  Gone are the backpacks, camping stoves, blisters
and bushwhacks; now our 26 students from across the U.S., who by
now feel like they have been best friends for years, are pushed,
stretched, built-up and sometimes even broken-down, in a
completely new way.  Six big questions are tackled (and hundreds
more asked):    1. Why does God allow bad things to happen to
good people?   2. How is a 2,000-year-old book relevant today?
3. Is Jesus really the only way?   4. What’s so great about the
Church?   5. How can