As I’ve talked to people at Suburban Pres. about this new call, I have told them that in six years of ministry I have never pursued a new pastoral position. Some churches’ search committees have contacted me over the years, asking me to give them a look, but I’ve never been interested.
And that is all […]

Many of you are on Facebook, but since some of you aren’t, and this blog is the archive of my life, I post this here.
Some of you could tell something was up by the way I was blogging, or not blogging. Here it is:
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Dear Suburban Presbyterian Church Friends,
Grace and peace be with you.
I am writing […]

In reverse chronological order:
R is a guitar hero! I’d take pictures but the kids have decided to attend this birthday party while naked.
been reading a few sermons for a friend, who’d asked for feedback. Makes me think I should do the same. Volunteers? A swap?
alas, the cute guy in the coffee shop has left and […]

Doing a lot of writing these days, just not here… but we can put this in the “worth a thousand words” category:

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the t-shirt

I’m doing a lot more recording of my life on Facebook than here but I’m always freaked that that stuff is just gonna disappear someday. So here is a bit of my week, starting today and working backwards, which will be a retread for FB friends:
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a day with the three amigos.
I really love the Trader […]

So Relevant Magazine posted an article by Chris Haw containing some hand-wringing concern over the iPhone, some of which I am sympathetic with. (It’s in the July/August 2009 issue, p. 27.)
Read it for his whole argument, but he’s feeling pulled by the economic “simplicity” lifestyle of the anabaptists, the warnings by Wendell Berry (whom I […]

I love our house, but there are some things about it that drive me crazy. Little stuff:
1. There are two doorbells, and the one that was hooked into the electricity of the house is long gone and now there are just little wires sticking out next to the front door.
2. The stairs squeak. Our walking […]

This is our twelve-year-old car. It looks sparkling from this angle, but it’s got quite the dents and dings on it. Still runs great though.
Last Thursday we finally “joined the Prius cult,” as R put it, so we’ve been fixing up the black car in preparation to get rid of it. We were a bit […]