I want to help students be able to transfer what they learn to their lives as pastors. There s so much work, but everyone says the first year is the roughest. He completed his dissertation last year and was offered a job at Notre Dame University. There he is writing and conducting research and will be ready to begin teaching an archaeological survey of Israel and Palestine in the fall. I knew where I was going to go.
Burgh enjoys approaching archaeology from a theological perspective.
This summer he makes a return trip to the Middle East to excavate on the Madaba Plains project at the biblical site of Tel Hisban. Burgh says his work on his doctorate helped him understand the sacrifices involved in graduate studies. I gained new insight on how valuable family time is. I felt really cared for. When Spelman College offered her a teaching job in Atlanta, there wasn t a pastoring job available for her husband to make the move possible.