Tape T2. S. Douglas Birdsall oral history interview {UNPROCESSED}
Content Description
February 19, 2025. Digital recording, 89 minutes, .445 GB, WAV format. Language: English. Interview conducted by Paul Ericksen at the Archives office at Wheaton College. Topics covered include: Birdsall's attending Wheaton College, majoring in Biblical and Theological Studies, professors Gordon Fee, Hassell Bullock, Merrill Tenney, Chaplains Evan Welsh and Elroy Patterson, President Hudson Armerding, Men's Glee Club and Clayton Halverson, other extra-curricular activities (Christian Service Council, World Christian Fellowship, pre-clergy group, meeting Don Hoke and subsequent connections through him, attending Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, focus on conflict and collaboration in subsequent PhD studies, Ken Wendling of LIFE Ministries in Japan which the Birdsalls joined in late-1979.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Provenance
Donated to the Evangelism and Missions Archives by Birdsall and interviewer Ericksen.
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- 2025 February 19
Creator
- Birdsall, Doug. (Interviewee, Person)
Extent
1 Sound Recording
89 Minutes
.445 Gigabytes (WAV file)
- Armerding, Hudson T.
- Birdsall, Jeanie.
- Bullock, C. Hassell.
- Children of clergy -- United States.
- Christian life.
- Clergy -- Appointment, call, election.
- Discipling (Christianity)
- Fee, Gordon D.
- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
- Halvorsen, Clayton E.
- Hoke, Donald E.
- Interpersonal conflict -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Interpersonal conflict -- Research.
- LIFE Ministries.
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election.
- Patterson, LeRoy, 1918-
- Providence and government of God.
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985.
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- United States.
- Welsh, Evan D.
- Wendling, Ken.
- Wheaton College (Ill.)
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Christian Service Council.
- World Christian Fellowship (Wheaton College)
Creator
- Birdsall, Doug. (Interviewee, Person)
- Ericksen, Paul. (Interviewer, Person)