"Getting Schooled" is a humorous, insightful, occasionally irreverent, and blatantly honest memoir of Joel Edmund Anderson's life and career as a high school teacher. Beginning with his first foray into the field of education as a shy and terrified student teacher in a Conception Junction, Missouri, and continuing through the trials and tribulations as a substitute teacher in the suburbs of Chicago, a TOEFL teacher in the Peace Corps, and a full-time teacher at various schools in California, Arkansas, and Alabama, Anderson reflects on the day-to-day chaotic roller-coaster ride of a life of a...

This project of translating the Old Testament is one that has been going on since the summer of 1999, when I took a summer class in Hebrew at Regent College. As with my translation of the New Testament, my original intention was not to translate the Bible. It came about gradually, as I taught the Bible at various Christian high schools over the years. I would translate a particular passage or chapter I was planning to cover, so that I would have a better handle on it. Over time, I'd realize that I would have a certain book almost done, so I would translate the rest of it and finish it off. At...