Month: January 2009
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Could it be?
This morning I read in “The Well,” a blog on the NY Times, about Obama’s new White House chef, Sam Kass. You can find the article here. I was excited to hear of the selection, mostly because I had been thinking along the lines of Alice Waters, who had recently contributed her thoughts and opinions…
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Beside Still Waters
It is January and I am back in Cambridge, which means that my experience of snow has increased by, say, 20-fold over the span of the week. Snow lies piled on the streets and strewn on yards, in many places half a person high (as in the case of the snow by my home). My…
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Did I mention?
So in all the wildness of the last few weeks (holidays and all) i forgot to mention a slightly big deal thingamagig on here…. i got engaged?! so yea, I am pretty excited about it, and A and I are in the midst of planning our future together, which is both scary and exciting. It’s…
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What does your Calvin Look Like?
The NYTimes posted an article this week about Mark Driscoll and his church, Mar’s Hill, which they conveniently entitled, “Who Would Jesus Smack Down?” Actually, the article is just as much about Calvinism as it is about Driscoll, in particular what the author calls “New Calvinism.” She writes of Driscoll: What is new about Driscoll…