I recently gave a personal testimony to the Westmont College Board of Trustees. The challenge was to answer the question, “How did you become who you are?” An interesting challenge for anybody! But considering the intellectual power of my audience, and considering their wide range of interests, it was not an easy thing to summarize in 10-minutes. In fact, it was much harder to prepare for this brief presentation than I ever imagined!
In the end, I described myself as having led a liberal arts life. Here are my expanded notes. Not the best writing, but as I said, they …