Few things are worse than being sick in the summer. At least it has rained here the past 2 days though. After church on the 4th Rose and I are heading to Salem to spend time with my family, then I’m going golfing out in the middle of no where on Monday since that is…
The Problem With Seminaries Today
I recently read a post by Colin Hansen on the Out of Ur blog that captured a lot of my feelings toward seminary right now. The current trend in seminaries and advanced education is to move classes to be more accessible to more people than the standard residential education model (think undergrad, living on campus…
Win Tickets to Catalyst in Seattle
In late August Catalyst is running a one day event/conference in the west Seattle area. I was already planning on heading up there to watch the Twins play the Mariners (priorities people, priorities), so I’ll swing over for Catalyst OneDay as well. Here’s some info about the one day event on August 26th: Hear Andy…
Fortuitous Bouncing
Summer has finally arrived in Portland. It took forever to get here, but better late than never. Despite the many negative reports, I was very pleased with the Timberwolves’ draft on Thursday night. I thought they made great decisions and great trades. Go USA Soccer! So far we’ve stolen the World Cup showcase. Hope that…
The Bachelor Life
For the past 20 days I’ve been a bachelor. Rose has been in Hawaii vacationing with my sister and also working. Kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity for her to spend time with my sister and also enjoy some of the best parts of that beautiful, tropical state. While she was having fun,…
Life is Fragile
I was heading from the church to a meeting with Kurt yesterday afternoon just after 3:30pm. Outside the church’s parking lot it was pretty obvious an accident had occurred a few minutes before because cars were stopped all over the place and there were a few cops trying to control traffic. As we pulled up…