- Streams for Friday | Wells, Praise Goh I used to make it a semi-discipline to write out a “stream” of thought every Sunday. It is Friday. I felt I needed one today. There is more lingering in the back of my mind than I realize. I’ll tell you something. I do not wish to be one who attends memorial services and then […]
- Ha Finito It is finished. At precisely 11:59pm and 44sec Pacific Standard Time I turned in my very last paper for Fuller. I am now resting in Colorado with sister Darrelle and doing work for clients from here. I heart you, interwebs. Actually right now I’m at a little club waiting for one of D’s rocker friends […]
- 7/ I Remember the Discussion with Karin + Linford of Over the Rhine Last December, Over the Rhine played my town. Twice. First I enjoyed them with friends at The Troubadour and the next day they played a rare private concert for my seminary. On that day, Karin and Linford gave us a full hour’s time to ask them big Questions about life, music, and God. 20 years […]
- Today is Friday, the Last day of July Today is Friday, the last day of July. It is also the very last day of my Fuller Seminary classroom career. I will take a Final exam on Mark’s gospel. All will be well and all will be well. I will also move out of my office today. I might need some extra strong arms […]
- How to Survive Finals Step one. Headphones and loud music. Step Two. Potent coffee in a ceramic mug. Step Three. A mental cocktail of slight-delirium, oh help me Jesus-type prayer, and dorky excitement for learning. It also helps to have a Zeppe the puppy calendar on your wall. Wednesday night update: 12 pages of 47 written and 1 other […]
- Proposals | Teresa of Avila and Metaphysical Desire It is 3:57 am and I am awake writing final paper proposals that will hopefully be hand-crafted into lengthy works of art by next Friday afternoon, when I’ll also have taken one final exam and written no less than 45 pages of papers. Bring it. I have been a deficient blogger, but you forgive me. […]
- A Psalm of Nelly Today in my 11am class on The Spiritual Disciplines we were given 8 minutes to write a Psalm. We’d been looking at Psalm 100, and I was particularly thinking about the final line of the song’s end: his faithfulness continues to all generations. I wear God’s faithfulness as a coat in the ice-march of an […]
- Neglected Parts/Parties Dear blog, I have shown you a measure of neglect. But since you are an extension of my self, you already know that it isn’t because I’ve been neglecting other parts of my life. It is actually quite the opposite. While it used to be that I’d blog for the sake of my health–it was […]
- A Post-Finals Metaphor / Sigur Ros [vimeo 3814849] That finals week was outrageous. To portray the feeling of soaring happiness I now feel that I am finished, I offer you this short video. You could say that the piano plays the part of me, in the midst of writing massive papers at 3:30am, while the awkward European waitstaff plays the part […]
- Mobile Upload / Finals Week Are you sure you don’t want to come sit next to me as I write 35 pages in the next 52 hours? It is quite sunny and in such deadlines I come outrageously alive, you know. I will soon be free from Finals week. Cheers.
- Isaiah, Re-envisioned Finals are over, freedom is here. It all feels good. One very nice D. Good took the train to spend the weekend with me, and we rode bikes around the city. It was terribly fun. While she was here I worked on a weighty final project for my course on Isaiah. I re-read the whole […]
- Raining / Pouring / An Old Man Somewhere is Snoring Whilst trying to be a full-time grad student (RE: Theology), I am also attempting to be a small-business entrepreneur (RE: Copywriting/Editing). In my off-mornings I am a barista. And to cool-down in the afternoons I play dodgeball and tutor middle school students at a local non-profit. I’ve had an uncanny amount of work with the […]