The last few weeks of this term (and my first year of seminary) are under way… As a fantastic end-of-term gift, three out of five profs have made 80% of our mark to be determined by papers and presentations due within these final weeks. It is less fun than it sounds.
Earlier this term I did some writing for the blog on the Diocese of BC website. It was published this week: What I learned from singing…
Enjoy.
I stumbled across this talk through a link from a link from a blogger I’ve followed for a number of years. If I could pick up and be accepted to do further study at any graduate school anywhere, this might just be who I would want to work with.
https://ted.com/talks/view/id/1042
Short on time, long on ideas…
Until such a time as I collect my thoughts, I love this post about praying for short-term mission trips to be disastrous… in all the right ways. I have some serious misgivings about those wonderful things we call short-term mission trips and I appreciated the sentiments expressed by the author here.
Flight is tonight. I just read this blog article. Interesting, and something I’ve thought about before myself.
Apparently when Brian McLaren does something like link to your website from his, your daily site views jump approximately 3200%. Hopefully some of those result in registrations!
PS – you want to be here, so register soon because we’re expecting it to fill up before the early-bird deadline!
From Flowing Data
This article appeared in my Reader Feed. In it, the author talks about how to save the world. Literally.
Like why is it so difficult to motivate people to care about the crises going on around us? We can inspire fear and guilt all we want, but it doesn’t seem to change a thing. The author’s theory is based on a quote from Mother Theresa: “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”
Interesting thoughts. Read the article. Then act.
Frank Schaeffer on the American Religious Right: “They’re not crazy just deluded… This is the American version of the Taliban.”
Watch the excellent interview here.
h/t to Brian McLaren for the link.
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