1. taking the classroom outside

    This past quarter I had the great privilege to work with Ryan Bolger on his class “transforming contemporary cultures” at Fuller Seminary.  In this class we used the internet as a basis for much

  2. when dreams become cheap tricks

    Over the holidays new drama develops for my family and it involves a small town scam. So far as I can tell Xzuberant Faith Basketball Association and Xzuberant Faith Ministry Production is a scam

  3. following wise guys

    today emily and i taught our Sunday School, and the lesson today was on the three “wise guys” as I like to call them and how they followed a star to find the baby

  4. new year thoughts

    Being home always reminds me of who I am, who I am not, and who I try to be.  For instance most of my friends here in LA are in school, just out of

  5. Christmas gifts and letters

    With all the fuss I made earlier about gifts on Christmas I must say that I still like to get them.  In fact Emily and I had a number of long talks about Christmas

  6. on our way back home

    Tomorrow morning at about 6:30 our good friend, Emily Page is taking us to the Burbank airport (heaven compared to LA international airport) to fly back to the good ol state of Ohio.

  7. home for christmas

    Emily and I are staying in LA for Christmas this year, mainly because we couldn’t purchase tickets for before Christmas due to Emily’s work schedule and the price of tickets going out

  8. christmas a couple days early

    Emily bought for me Ecto today – a web-blog publishing platform fully equipped to keep me busy working on posts, and glued to the blue screen of my ibook.  Currently I am trying to

  9. christmas and Quakers

    Street Corner Society offers a very thoughtful look into Quaker practices concerning the holidays.  This feeds into and also challenges what I said yesterday. Technorati Tags: Christmas, quakerism, theology

  10. testing new ways

    I’ve been toying around with new blog templates, haloscan and ecto so forgive the multiple changes updates lately I am trying to get this right. Technorati Tags: test

  11. Cristes maese and the American Soul

    So today Emily and I worked my last day of work for about 10 days.  We are ready for a break, who isn’t really.  It seems like our world is built around a

  12. thoughts on class

    This past quarter i had the great privilege to be Ryan Bolger’s teaching assistant for his class Transforming Contemporary Cultures.  He has done a great post reflecting on things he’s learned from

  13. one more moment of tech stuff

    Okay – I confess that I’ve been a little distracted by all the tech stuff as of late and sorry for the less thoughtful thoughts instead, about “haloscan” and other strange things. But I’

  14. a ton of really cool stuff

    The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 (web2.wsj2.com)this website has links to some really cool software I didn’t know anything about.the writely is the best thing on the

  15. Silence II

    So I have to consider that I am at times hard on myself, while at other times way too easy. But in either case my last post about silence might have been a bit