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For Immediate Release
RE: Professor Writes of His “Three Longest Years”
Professor Writes of His “Three Longest Years”
June 8, 2004
Before he was a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Missouri Baptist University, and before he was a trial litigator of law, Cordell Schulten was a student seeking survival through his three longest years of his life—law school.
Schulten wrote about these tough years in a short testimony called “The Three Longest Years,” to be published by Andrews University Press in the second volume of College Faith. Editor Ronald Alan Knott sought out 150 Christian leaders and educators to share their personal stories. Their testimonies depict strong leaders in a time when they themselves were students in higher education and how their trials as a student brought them closer in their faith with Christ.
In his story, Schulten describes his three most difficult and challenging years of his life, studying for law school while married with three small children. Starting out, Schulten found comfort in the story of Daniel forced to study for three years in Babylon. With success and ambition, Schulten began pursuing his own interests and, unlike Daniel, “began to dine at the king’s table.” Through achievement and successive failures, Schulten refocused his desires and leaned not on himself, but on the Lord.
MBU President Alton R. Lacey shared his testimony, “The Way I Should Go,” in the first volume of College Faith in 2002.
Upon its release in July 2004, copies of College Faith 2 may be purchased online at http://www.andrewsuniversitypress.com.
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