Professor Lester Start Papers

 

Lester Start was a professor of philosophy and an ordained Baptist minister of the American Baptist Convention. The profession of philosophy predominated, but he was a supply minister in many churches, and served as interim pastor for a year at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was born in Utica, New York in 1919. He graduated Valedictorian from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and received his M.A. from Haverford College (Pendle Hill Scholar; now called Brinton Scholar, after Anna and Howard Brinton, co-directors in the ’40s of Pendle Hill Quaker study center). Dr. Start obtained his Bachelor of Divinity from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1945, and was ordained a Baptist minister that year. His Ph.D. in philosophy came from Syracuse University in 1946 and he also studied at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. He taught philosophy at Utica college of Syracuse University from 1946 to 1958 and then chaired the Kalamazoo College Philosophy Department from 1958 to 1986. Dr. Start died in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2001.

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  • Where Your Treasure Is 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1979-10-14)
    Text of sermon given at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 14, 1979.

  • What If There Were No Self? 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1989-02-03)
    Text of Friday chapel address given at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan on February 3, 1989.

  • What Every Farmer Knows 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • What Do You Stand For? 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    A Palm Sunday sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • What Can We Hope? 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1979-09-16)
    Text of sermon given at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan on September 16, 1979.

  • Visibility Limited 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • Understanding Later 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • Truth Within Man 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • Truth 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • Tragedy of Sleeping 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • Three Interpretations of the Resurrection of Jesus 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • Thoughts on the Atonement 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Paper by Dr. Lester Start. Undated. Contains Greek script not interpreted by OCR.

  • The Woman at the Well 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1980-03-10)
    Text of sermon given on March 10, 1980.

  • The Uses of Memory 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1980-06-01)
    Text of sermon given at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan on June 1, 1980.

  • The Unforgiving Spirit 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1950-04-23)
    Text of sermon given in Vernon Center, New York on April 23, 1950.

  • The Trust for You to Hold 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • The Star of Hope 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • The Spiritual Law of Compensation 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1980-06-22)
    Text of sermon given at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan on June 22, 1980.

  • The Sign of the Cross II 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001
    Sermon given by Dr. Lester Start. Undated.

  • The Sign of the Cross I 

    Start, Lester J., 1919-2001 (1980-07-06)
    Text of sermon given at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan on July 6, 1980.

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