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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 of

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 that

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 Jesus.

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 school

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 gifts,

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. Heading

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 of

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 figure out

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

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

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 “dog

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 the