P&P Discovers Joe Thorn on the Second Floor of Boyce Centennial Library

I love Boyce Centennial Library for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that I can find interesting stuff like this on long, arduous nights of researching.  I guess this needs a little explaining (to see it larger, go here). 

At least once a month, I make it a goal of mine to spend one evening researching and copying journal articles that I know I will be reading and using in the future (for instance, last semester I think I copied around 5000 pages or 225 journal articles for research).  I figured if I couldn’t have Boyce in my backyard, I should at least have him in my backpack! Anway, it was one of those days last semester that I stumbled upon a hilarious moment. 

You see, we have these slips of papers at each computer cubicle for personal use, such as for writing bibliographic info down or catalog numbers.  I usually grab about 15-20 of these to bookmark the journal articles I want to copy.  While working my way around to the Evangelical Quarterly, I looked at the back side of one of the slips and saw a picture of this girl and said to myself, “I know this girl from somewhere.”  Looking a little closer, I realized that it was Joe’s daughter who I had just met after spending the night with the Thorn’s while coming back from the DG National Conference.  I immediately began to thumb through the slips and noticed more sections from Joe’s blog.  I proceeded to check every cubicle on the first and second floor to see what I could come up with.  Well, below is a puzzle of some of what I found.  I was rolling!  (The print out comes from the August 10-18, 2006 of Joe’s blog.)

So what can you find at such a prestigious library?  Unique historical documents of Southern Baptist life?  Yes.  Charles Spurgeon’s own Bible with his handwritten notes?  Yes.  The blogposts of a Southern Baptist blogger.  Answer?  Yes. 

That’s just one of the many reasons why I love my Boyce Centennial Library.  😉