I’m getting my (insert term for gludius maximus) kicked on internship. Transitioning from a summer of childcare which, though exhausting, provided me with ample daily naps and a rather casual work setting, to a new church where I’m struggling to learn names, wrap my head around the particular tasks of ministry at this place, meetingContinue reading “A Butt-Kicking”
Category Archives: Blogging
The Blog and Candidacy (or Congregation)
I have no idea if members of my Candidacy Committee read my blog. Which got me to thinking . . . Have any of you seminarian or pastor bloggers out there ever been burned in any way by what you’ve written on your blog? Do your parishoners or candidacy committee members read your blog? DoContinue reading “The Blog and Candidacy (or Congregation)”
Life without internet . . . egad!
Tomorrow morning is move-in day at our new townhouse in Northern Virginia. With my wife in Chicago for the ELCA’s Worship Jubilee and my older daughter in Delaware with some dear friends, my one-year old and I will coordinate the move. We are blessed to have a crew from my internship congregation come with foodContinue reading “Life without internet . . . egad!”
Next post will arrive in August, from Virginia
It’s going to be a heck of a summer. As many of you know, we’re moving to suburban Washington, DC (Fairfax, VA). With my wife gone for the next two weeks teaching at the Summer Theological Academy, and me being consumed with full-time Daddy Daycare and coordinating our au pair search, with my best friend’sContinue reading “Next post will arrive in August, from Virginia”
Blog Observations
I haven’t been blogging recently on any kind of heady or deeply theological level, a conundrum I addressed in a recent post, Blogging the Ordinary. The drought continues. Sorry folks. But I have recently added a few blogs to my Google Reader and to my lamely-titled blog list, "The Feeds in my Google Reader," availableContinue reading “Blog Observations”
The Lutheran Zephyr 