Higher Things: A New Model for Youth Ministry from iMonk “Adolescence is a transitionary period from childhood to adulthood; it is not a subculture. Our task as adults is to get them through adolescence, not perpetuate it.”? That sentence alone was worth the price of admission, but the rest of the interview is even better, [...]
Arm the Senate! from E.J. Dionne I have to admit a bit of fondness for polemics like this.? There’s not all that much sophisticated thinking to it, just the direct application of strange thinking to commonplace situations.? It’s the simple ones that work this nicely.
It was a whirlwind of a week, that’s for sure. The pictures in the album are roughly in chronological order. Enjoy, and if you have any questions, post a comment, why don’t ya? Summer Vacation Atlanta 2009
There are two things that surprise a traveler and three that make one shake one’s aching head: experiences that surpass the hype, overhyped experiences that don’t, and genuine patterns of bad business. The Georgia Aquarium truly is a modern marvel.? It’s one of those buildings that’s twice as big inside as it looks outside, and [...]
Day one of our in-state vacation is in the bag.? In the morning we visited the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, and after a late lunch, we spent the afternoon swimming in the hotel’s pool, ordered pizza to the hotel room, and went back out swimming after a bit of Cartoon Network to kill time [...]
I’ll admit that this is my kind of vacation, the kind that only takes an hour and a half to return from.? We depart tomorrow morning, stopping along the way to take care of some paperwork in Dacula, and we’re spending the day at the Fern Bank natural history museum in Atlanta.? Then we’ll proceed [...]
We’re taking off for our four-day vacation in Atlanta tomorrow, so I cleared the camera’s memory card. Here are a few pictures, mostly of swim lessons but one of Micah’s new room. His room is almost done, and we start on baby’s room when we get back. New Bed and Swim Lessons
Yesterday was my last Friday at Bogart Library. [edit: I'm actually working July 31; strike that last statement.] I’ve been working there, as a side job, since 2002, and I’m going to miss it.? I’ll enjoy having weekends free and the fact that I’ll only have one job to worry about, but nonetheless it’ll be [...]
I try never to call myself technically savvy, computer-literate, or other such things–the moment I do, somebody’s going to ask me to install, update, or fix something that’s beyond my scope.? Nonetheless, I do take some joy in those moments when I get electronic widgets to work in ways that they weren’t working before.? So [...]
Back in May, when I reviewed Will Samson’s book Enough, Robert Pankey (whose suggestions I tend to take seriously) suggested that I look at William T. Cavanaugh’s latest for the sake of comparison.? And so, never being one to turn down an opportunity to buy books online, I promptly ordered Cavanaugh’s latest book. The book [...]
I know folks have probably already seen this from the link on Ben Myers’s blog, but I got a chuckle out of it.
I always appreciate people who comment on this blog, and I’m especially flattered when people link to things I’ve written.? So I was positively glowing when I discovered that anholmwiler (a screen name, no doubt) had responded to my post on Luther’s De Servo Arbitrio with a good blog post in its own right.? Today [...]
David Brooks on Dignity. I read this little piece this morning, and once again, Brooks writes some pretty good stuff when he isn’t? being a GOP partisan.? (He’s not unlike Tom Tomorrow that way, though I doubt he’d appreciate the comparison.) Reflecting on a list of 110 rules of behavior that George Washington copied into [...]
These won’t be the last, but they are the ones from our summer trip. So here are the Indiana pictures: Summer Trip 2009 Indiana And here are the West Virginia pictures: Summer Trip 2009 West Virginia And here are some from Georgia that somehow didn’t make it off the memory card before we split town: [...]
Now that the previous occupant has vacated, and now that we’re back in town from family travels, this morning I’m finally moving several boxes of books into my Emmanuel College office. In a month and a week faculty workshops start, and I’ll be a professor for real. In the meantime, I’m going to keep trying [...]
