I love it and hate it when it rains in LA, being from good ol' Canton Ohio I am fully aware of what life submerged by water looks and feels like. So when it rains here I am not so surprised by this moist substance falling from the sky,
Continue reading →Two weeks back we received our weekly issue of Time Magazine; the cover instantly caught my eyes. It's a picture I almost wanted to find myself wrapped up in. The title of the article asks a pertinent question for today's technologically immersed generation, “Are Kids Too
Continue reading →Wow – the updates keep rolling in – now there is an all new about page, as if you care?!
Continue reading →I have been reflecting back on the speed that life has taken on. All of life’s distractions, duties, and the pace at which it seems like we must get things done has been pulling me away from the simple and quiet life that one needs in order to maintain
Continue reading →Dr. Juan Martinez from Fuller Theological Seminary, and head of the hispanic studies program, told a couple of us the other day that the Latino faith community in LA is planning a day of prayer and fasting this Sunday April 2. There is supposed to be another school walk out
Continue reading →Here is a buffet bar of thoughts from this past weekend: 1. On Immigration The struggle for Illegal Immigrants right’s will be, as the LA Times wrote yesterday, the Civil Rights Struggle of our generation. There have been staged walkouts and then this past Saturday a 500,000 person
Continue reading →Last night we hosted our small group over at our house. I was in charge of planning for the evening so I pieced together a worship/prayer/contemplative time that included bits and pieces of prayers from a Celtic prayer book I have, the Book of Common Prayer, Quaker queries
Continue reading →So I've been meaning to for sometime figure out this whole favicon thing – and today I had a little bit of time and had a breakthrough (a more meaningful thing to breakthrough would have been better but I'll take what I can get). After looking for
Continue reading →There is good news I can’t help but share, yesterday I opened my email to read, Wess, I’ve been given the go-ahead to officially welcome you into the PhD program…I’ve been assigned as your mentor, so I’m thrilled to be working with you for the
Continue reading →I switched over from bloglines to rojo about 3 months ago to handle all of my blog feeds. I did this mainly because it has a simple and easy to view user-interface and because of its tagging capilities. Since I first came over the rojo team has continued to develop
Continue reading →Shawn over at LO-FI Tribe has put up a Ping Homily??? for March. He writes a short homily and then asks other to join in on writing about that theme. This month he writes about Courage and I am struck by his brief yet powerful message, exclaiming that we know
Continue reading →Today gatheringinlight.com took a nose dive. While working on editing my new theme supported by Eric Taylor’s K2 Reloaded I decided to clear out some of my old plugins I never use, unfortunately you cannot delete active wordpress plugins, you must deactivate them first or else your site
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