Ron McCreary
Ron McCreary earned a Master of Divinity degree from Candler School of Theology in1984. He has been working with Scripture for 30 years as a preacher and teacher in local congregations. As an occasional iconoclast himself who roots for the underdog, Ron loves Mark. He points out that John Wesley considered Mark an inferior copy of Matthew. But Mark is sparse and direct, and almost always close to the ground. Scholars think Mark wrote in the middle of the disasters of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the earliest Gospel, giving the account credibility. In this course Ron will be trying to give learners new things to think about and encouragement to do the thinking, things their prior background may not have provided.