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Temporary Vocational Stretch Update
The 2016-2017 winds down this week. It doesn’t quite feel like it, though. Instead, things are kind of heating up. These last few weeks of the semester have been a blur. Lots of cool moments: baccalaureate, the yearbook dedication (what?!), … Continue reading
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“Libraries in the Kingdom”
Jamie Smith, author of You Are What You Love, started his summer vacation with a brief reflection on the books that have been piling up in his office . . . and life. The post, which you can read here, … Continue reading
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Ripping Off JRR Tolkien
The folks over at Creator Arts have been posting a number of recent concert clips from Andrew Peterson. This one got posted earlier today and begins with the song’s inspiration: one of my favorite moments from Tolkien’s Lord of the … Continue reading
Surviving Impressions: Bush Tucker
The most recent season of Survivor wrapped up last week on CBS. It was a fun season for me, as I got to watch it with friends from church. While I remember watching the first season of the classic reality … Continue reading
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The Courage to Sing
The third and final section of Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family involves singing and showing up. It is the shortest section of the book, but it still packs a punch with content. On some level, the content of this final … Continue reading
“The Days are Just Packed” No More?
One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strips (and collections) involves a long summer day with Calvin’s final comment of how “the days are just packed.” I think most of us feel that way . . . and most … Continue reading
Work and Rest, Toil and Leisure
Once you get past the prolegomena of The Tech-Wise Family (which I mentioned here), Andy Crouch walks readers through ten “commitments” classified in three groups: key decisions, daily life, and what matters most. The first section, of key decisions, picks … Continue reading
Life by the Right Rule
Perhaps the most wonderfully frustrating thing about Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family is its reminder that daily life matters. It is in the day-in and day-out, Crouch asserts, that something like character is formed. For Crouch, the family is key … Continue reading
Like Leaving the Piano in Ohio
Douglas Coupland prefaces Bit Rot, his most recent collection of essays and stories, with this: When the pioneers crossed North America from east to west, the first thing to be thrown off the family Conestoga wagon was the piano, somewhere … Continue reading
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Temporary Vocational Stretch
Because of changes and restructuring at work, I’ll be taking a temporary vocational stretch in the fall. The conversation has been mostly in-house at this point, which is fine by me. It will require me to work on some of … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 