I got word this afternoon about some major budget reductions from the church I attended in college and who supported me through my ordination process. After many years of great growth and vitality, this church is really struggling with its direction, vision, and participation. I don’t attend there any longer, obviously, since I [...]

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I have been reading xkcd for a while via my newsreader and just found this one today really funny. For those not familiar with XKCD, it defines itself as a “A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.” In other [...]

When you marry someone, you marry their sports fanaticism as well. Growing up a Colorado football fan, I have been raised to hate strongly dislike Nebraska football (as well as Notre Dame football on general principle) and so most of my football fan life, I’ve paid attention primarily to Big 8 / Big 12 [...]

Ok, so my dissertation is nearly complete - just need to write the 350 word abstract for Proquest and UDTS and the acknowledgments part at the end and that’s it. I have quite a few images scattered throughout and decided to do a test conversion to PDF. Well, that went well until I [...]

I read this commentary on CNN.com today by Roland Smith echoing the comments of Sen. Obama on Monday and was struck by his comparison to the current debate to a message delivered by Martin Luther King in 1967. Smith writes:
When Wright was castigated for being anti-American for saying “God damn America!” — which was [...]

I have been struck by the “controversy” over Rev. Wright and his comments while he was pastor of the church that Barack Obama attends. There are many layers of this that are striking, but the most notable for me is the idea that just because Obama attends this church that he must automatically agree [...]