I try not to admit this, but I “fly by the seat of my pants” more than I should. This morning I led the Adult Forum (adult education) with Terry Johnson at my church. We’re starting a three-month series on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. I didn’t know exactly what I’d say, but I knew […]
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Last night we had a foot of snow. Driving back to Hyde Park this morning was miserable. 2 hours 45 minutes in a trip along Interstate 55 that should have taken just 40 minutes. I never went above 20 miles per hour. Even worse: the plows hadn’t been able to get onto the interstate and […]
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In the euphoria of our engagement, I forgot to share the fun of my prior 24 hours: I chaperoned a Sr. High lock-in at my church. Lock-ins are, for the most part, second nature to me. They require little effort other than the ability to stay awake. That’s what I thought, at least, until Jessica […]
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I’m now up to 102 e-mails and Facebook messages congratulating Heidi and I on our engagement. And I haven’t responded to nearly enough of them! We each told our churches on Sunday, and it’ll no doubt be announced at DDH tonight, which include even more verbal congrats. It’s SO fun to have others recognize our […]
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Yesterday at the Divinity School, our Lilly Foundation-sponsored “Border Crossings” program held a conference on Music in American Religious Experience. The conference consumed the last half of my week with planning and running the technology for the event. We brought in two authors (Phil Bohlman and Edith Blumhofer) who wrote a book with the same […]
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I have one hobby that benefits my classmates but harms my grades (or at least my completion rate before due dates): I love capturing sermons, lectures and presentations in video and then learning how to edit during the production process. My latest chance was during Christmas break. My class was zany enough to have our […]
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Foundations for my Eucharistic Theology: 1 picture, 3 anecdotes
Few things can remind you of your identity more than returning to your roots. Over the holiday break I was lucky enough to join Norwalk Christian Church not once, but three times for worship. Everyone seems older – from my grandparents’ friends to my parents’ Sunday school class to the preschoolers who are now in […]
Continue… it’s probably still there …?!
Two days before the Thanksgiving holiday and I’m convinced that I’m loosing my mind. Actually, my mind is relatively secure; I’m mostly losing everything else. This afternoon I spent 90 minutes searching for my “to-do list” that covered everything I needed to do before December 15th. I could have re-created the list in 5 minutes […]
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It’s almost Halloween and I just finished something I should have done three months ago: I cleaned out my hard drives. After upgrading to Apple’s new Leopard operating system, I realized I needed more free hard drive space to take advantage of its Time Machine feature. It’s ironic that I need more free hard drive […]
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