Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This week, I’m working on a research paper for my class, The American Jeremiad: American Religion, American History. At some point during the semester, it struck me that Al Gore has tapped into the heart of American civil religion and begun to reshape it with his mission to bring the environmental crisis to the fore of public [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday, my grandparents took Tommy and I to see NoVember. During brunch, PaPa (grandfather) leaned over and told me that he and my grandmother (henceforth known as Goo (because I couldn’t say Gran when I was little)), and their traveling friends decided that we should practice the language of the play so as not to [...]
Posted in Daily life on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Taking advantage of a reading assignment for my American Jeremiad class, I spent the midday in Palmer Square reading Olivia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. I recommend the book, and hope to read the sequel, Parable of the Talents. All I’m going to say in review of the book is that it really hit on [...]
Posted in Society on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Riding uptown on Madison Avenue this morning was a bit creepy. Every Sunday I arrive at Penn Station and am in a yellow cab on my way to Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church by 8 or 8:15. Most mornings, there are very few cars on the road.
This morning was no exception … until we crossed Madison [...]
Posted in Important Events on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I was going to write the sermon to end all sermons … I was even going to dust off my Barth and my Calvin … and get you all excited about all the good things you’re going to do when you leave this place,” and then she said, “But then I heard the voice of God [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Today was the annual PTS Women’s Center Luncheon for Senior Women, as well as one of the first days that I have seen flowers in bloom in more than seven months.
Spring brings lots of beautiful changes, and the warm weather and the brilliant colors call out for us to stop and notice everything that’s going [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the headaches of looking for a house while being so far away from Charlotte. Well, the situation just got easier, because I think we have a winner! Tommy found a house in the University area (north Charlotte) that seems to be in the perfect location between the church [...]
Posted in Travel on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This morning I took the hotel shuttle to the airport, and on the way, met Javier. Javier was the shuttle driver and told me a little bit about San Antonio. This had been my first visit to San Antonio, and immediately, I was surprised to find the airport very small for what I assumed to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
With two more weeks of seminary left, I find myself away from Princeton and in San Antonio for the PCUSA Multicultural Conference. I have to admit that the first day and a half, I wasn’t sure what I was going to take away from the conference itself. Along the way, I have learned some tools [...]
Posted in Society on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think ethics have to be worked out situationally, so I’m just going to say this: buying or selling a $3300 cocktail party dress at a commercial department store for big business profit should be a crime. I was in New York this weekend with my parents, and right about the time we were heading [...]
