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Real Life Seminary
Those of you who know me or have read this blog before possibly remember that I spent probably one of the most exciting and challenging summers of my life working in Philadelphia at Broad Street Ministry. And if you have had the privilege (hah!) of meeting me since then, you likely have heard that church…
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Get ready and wait
Man am I ever really feeling the season of Advent. Maybe it’s something in my water, but I have been feeling the disease and lack of comfort that comes with waiting earnestly– for a future, for answers, for certainty, for God to direct me in the right place. And I will say, that I am…
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Pardoning Turkeys?!
Just a quick thought…. I have been seeing more than a few articles online about turkey pardons, which of course made more headlines than usual when Palin did her interview in front of a man slaughtering turkeys after pardoning one. So there are lots of articles and photos of presidents pardoning turkeys, and to be…
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ack!*
What to do what to do what to do. It has been a neato week, in which I completed my Public Preaching course with a final whoop-dee-doo sermon on Acts 17. It didn’t go quite so awesome as I had hoped, but I did indeed take risks in that class this year and learned quite…
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WOoah!
It’s been a lightyear and more since I posted on here, and gee-wilikers it feels strange. to be honest, life has been a bit hectic, but that is only part of it; in reality I think I was just a bit tired of the postathons, and more than anything I was interneted out by the…
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WHEW! It’s finally OVER
Finally… we have a president-elect, and its none too soon. I have spent the last 6 months or so checking too many politically-minded websites, reading article after article on who did what and who said this or that and what poll predicted what where… it was exhausting, and yet I couldn’t drag myself away. I…
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Political “whoops” moment
So I am back in my home-country, visiting my parents out in Northern California, a land that still brims with delicious tomatoes on-the-vine and any number of other tasty summer vegetable which has long since departed from Boston where I now get my mail. (if you can’t tell already, I have been both amazed and…
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Question/Favor… please read!
Okay, so I am writing a thesis, and the topic is hospitality. More on that to come, I am sure, in the next few months, but for now, I am asking my friends and acquaintances the following question: When you think of the word hospitality and the bible, what scripture comes to mind? And…