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Well, Sound the Bells.
Turn off the crock pot. I’m done. Thank you for cheering me on. I liked that. The Klein’s took this photo in my last hours. I think it’s pretty creepy. I’m not certain why I’m sharing it. (Sorry.) What a crazy last five days, folks. :: 55+ pages written for class :: 55+ pages edited […]
Jenelle
December 7, 2007
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This is What I Do
This is what I do to act like a child as I am writing 50 pages of papers for finals: 1. Make a faux finals-papers advent calendar. One for each page needed to be written for Fuller. Compose out of old newspapers. 1.5 Number from 0-50. Color with a black sharpie. (I love sharpies.) 2. […]
Jenelle
December 5, 2007
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Where’s Nelly?
Presenting, Fuller’s 2007 School of Intercultural Studies. A special haiku award goes to ye who finds me the fastest, and scribes it upon the comments. I will write a haiku in honor of you and post it for all of blogdom. (Hint: I am partially hidden behind one very tall human.) As a way of […]
Jenelle
November 3, 2007
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Gimme More Dodgeball
I think we all need a little more dodgeball in our lives. What a game! One of the newest highlights of my week is playing dodgeball and yelling, “Ohhhhh!” as I point (and gloat) that I’ve just gotten someone out. (I’m a little competitive.) Ok, so I’m playing dodgeball with middle schoolers. It shouldn’t massage […]
Jenelle
November 1, 2007
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The First Days
I flew into Burbank on Monday and found the lovely Kleins waiting to hug me. Going from airport to airport, I arrived just in time to find a seat in Dr. Kraft’s (somewhat infamous) class at Fuller. (And I’ve got the picture to prove it.) Smiling with me is Amy G. She’s been in my […]
Jenelle
October 3, 2007
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Riding the Sky to California
The nice people of Southwest Airlines dropped me off at LAX last night. And then the most wonderful Klein family picked me up from the aeroporto in their rad ’90 Volvo wagon. We rode around Angel town with the windows down and I lamented the loss of my old dark green ’90 Volvo 240. Its […]
Jenelle
July 15, 2007
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Mathspeak for Christians: Bounded-sets
[I’m going to start posting bits of what I’ve been learning in my classes, in case you’re interested. If my language starts sounding pretentious and annoyingly academic, please stop me.] Here is something I’m chewing on from a book by Paul Hiebert: What are the consequences of defining Christianity as a bounded-set? In the West, […]
Jenelle
June 15, 2007
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Flying Red Pens
Tonight, red pens were a-flying in my room. We are studying 1 Timothy in my Fuller class. Oh, the legendary first letter to Timothy! The book that has caused many a woman to have imaginary boxing-matches with St. Paul over his apparent misogyny! Well, N.T. Wright is helping me see Paul in a whole new […]
Jenelle
May 14, 2007
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Stinky Feet Theory
I have this new theory. I think that traveling sets off a strange chemical reaction in the laboratory of our shoes that emits a stronger-than-normal-foot-odor. Or maybe I just need to throw away my favorite “travel shoes.” Either way, my post-travel stank is really amazing. I’ve just returned from a renegade 3-day trip (back) to […]
Jenelle
March 30, 2007
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What I’ve Been Working On
If you would like to know what I’ve been working on, here is one thing. I recently finished a project for my class on Ministering to Street Children, and I got the wild idea to submit it as a blog-article, rather than just a boring paper (with an extra-large title…) “Listening to the Marginalized Voices […]
Jenelle
March 21, 2007
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The Church: Irreverent Towards Women?
I just completed a Culture Watchin’ assignment with my friend, Ellen, in my Fuller MAGL cohort. I figured it was spicy enough to share a splice of it with you. Our assignment was to “partner up” with someone in our cohort, and follow the news , tracing a theme in culture, and analyzing it according […]
Jenelle
March 15, 2007
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Kiss My Brain
My brain needs a smooch. Or a synapse-massage, perhaps. I’m still in Pasadena finishing up the last three days of a two week intensive at Fuller. And I’m knee-deep in excellent books for the two courses I’m working on this quarter: Ministering to Street Kids and Contemporary Culture in Missiological Perspective (a.k.a. “Our culture is […]
Jenelle
February 22, 2007