Believe it or not, Tara and I have lived in our new home since last October, and today was the first day that I/we mowed our backyard lawn. (I was rather lazy last fall… when I raked leaves, I even left them in piles for a few weeks. Lesson learned: piles of [...]
If you’re a loyal reader of this blog, you (a) are part of a very small group of people who (b) have noticed that my blog has been busted for the past couple of days. In fact, you’ve probably noticed that it’s been broken on multiple occasions for several months now. I apologize [...]
gah!
I just found out / realized that I’m a week behind in my online New Testament class! I misread “due date” as “assigned date,” and apparently I took two weeks off from that class for spring break. That means I’m even farther behind in that class than I thought – I’m supposed to [...]
I just received a forwarded e-mail entitled “How Long Do We Have?” I usually don’t read forwards, but because of my familiarity with the sender, I decided to give it a shot.
It begins by giving a two-hundred-year-old description of the life cycle of a nation run by democracy. It then moves into a [...]
This past week was my spring break – my first true spring break since starting seminary, because in the past I’ve taught at different schools which have had different breaks. So what did I do with my week off? I (a) caught up on some reading for school, (b) did some work for [...]
Jesus is a fish, right? You’re driving down the interstate, and you see a minivan with a fish on its bumper, maybe with a cross for an eye. Everybody knows that the fish means Christianity, but I’ve never really wondered why…
In my Greek class the other week, I learned the reason. Of [...]
