Last Thursday, I did a very odd thing for a man of my age. I went back to school.

And not just any school, either. I am enrolled in my first year of the master of divinity program at Princeton Theological Seminary. I have a backpack filled with heavy (and expensive) textbooks. I have reading assignments and discussion sections and lectures where I take notes, a thing I have not done since 1987. I also have a paper due on Monday. These are odd things for a man of my age to have on his to-do list.