Ray Lubeck

Dr. Ray Lubeck is professor of Bible at Multnomah University in Portland, OR. Ray is a graduate of Multnomah (BS), TEDS (MA), and the University of S. Africa (D.Th). He is a regular guest lecturer at schools in OR and HI, and a wide-ranging speaker. His writing includes Reading the Bible for a Change (2005, 2009; 2nd ed. 2023), Swallowing Jonah (2011), chapters in Gibson, ed. Preaching to a Shifting Culture (2004), Cole & Kissling, ed. Text and Canon (2017), and NIV Starting Point Study Bible (2002), and revising editor of Goodrick, Is My Bible the Inspired Word of God? (2007), plus many articles, reviews, and scholarly papers (see https://multnomah.academia.edu/RayLubeck ). He is happily married over four decades (towards a century together), and has two grown children. Favorite activities include hanging with students and friends and grandkids, reading, writing, driving back roads, playing bass and acoustic guitar, and Seahawks & Ducks football. Other favorites: Calvin & Hobbes, smoked oyster pizza, desert sunsets, Rooibos tea, David Brooks, Kevin Vanhoozer, Christopher Seitz, and James Davidson Hunter, all accompanied by Spotify playlists. Favorite quotes: "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." – E. B. White "As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only and wholly what he must" – Ursula LeGuin, The Earthsea Trilogy "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." – Yogi Berra Video interview of Ray Lubeck by Jason Bostow, March 2023 "Ring Them Bells": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN-lKPAsnCo