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Pastor,
I have tried to reconcile the events of last Sunday with the Eucharist we celebrated and I am, as yet, unable to. That we, as a congregation, have become so fearful of those ‘in the heart of the city’ surrounding us that we ask others to cary weapons into our midst has left me [...]

I recently finished Neil Stephenson’s “Baroque Cycle”. A massive 3k page corpus of interwoven historical fiction set at the end of the gothic era, and the beginning of the baroque era. Wonderfully composed, if a bit verbose the three volumes in the cycle chronicle the lives of several historical figures from the King(s) of England [...]

So I’ve recently become a big fan of GTD, or “Getting Things Done.” Even the title seems radically practical compared to typical titles from Covey and crew.
Basically the idea, as implemented by me, is to develop an habit of dumping all that I need to get done into a central repository. For me this [...]

For the past year or so I’ve been evaluating and trying out different styles of self organization. I first worked with the venerable palm pilot, then a combination of iCal and Word for appointments and todo lists. I tried post it notes with todo items stuck together in a pad I kept in my pocket. [...]

This morning at Trinity during the children’s sermon Pastor Duke talked about being thankful. He told the children a story about a fancy Sunday Dinner his mother cooked. Roast Beast, Mashed Potatoes etc. He didn’t want any of it so he casually told her “I don’t want any of this, can I have a PB&J?” [...]

I found this story while reading Christdot.org. There’s just so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start. The Burka reference?
Church Installs 72-Foot “Statue Of Liberation Through Christ”… | The Huffington Post:
Does anyone else think this is flat out idolatrous?
However, this does open up a whole new realm of practical jokes that could [...]

I had half a haircut.
After Church this afternoon I went to the mall. I had two things on the agenda. First off Lunch, which went surprising well considering the fast food nature of it all. Second, to get a much needed haircut. After lunch I stopped by my normal hair cutters to find a [...]

England being eliminated by portugal has left me with an interesting dilemma. Who to root for?
Much sadness.
For the record, ABC needs to hire actual Soccer players to be the commentators. As it stands now… well lets just say I think they through out random soccer-ese to sound good. grr.

You scored. It was brilliant. Then you went and let the Germans score in the 86th minute. I mean really. Four minutes… couldn’t you keep it together for four more minutes?
And then the PK’s … Somebody buy the keeper a round or 5.

I’m a member of that online service where they “match” you with others so that you can be be harmonious in your relationships. They matched me with a woman, we’ll call her “Kat.” We exchanged questions and must have’s and can’t stands and were asking each other the second round of questions when I got [...]

So a few nights ago I’m sleeping soundly through the forsaken hour of 4am. Mind you I *LIKE* sleeping entirely through that hour of the morning. Alas, on that morning the smoke alarm did ring out, the cat’s were scared and dreams were shattered. I opened my bedroom door to find a dense acrid smoke [...]

About two weeks ago, while waiting at the Duke student pharmacy I saw a fly advertising a Duke neurological study. $25 an hour for watching a movie while you’re head is stuck in an MRI machine. Simple enough. Easy money right? I went for the screening appointment, they shoved me in an MRI, and ran [...]

This past Sunday, we at Trinity UMC heard a sermon on Porn.
I must admit I was a bit surprised to hear a porn sermon on good shepherd Sunday. Duke, (who believe it or not is the pastor,) introduced the topic with some statistics he recently learned at a pastors-cover-your-butt-sexual-ethics-training-seminar put on by the Conference. Apparently, [...]

Wrote a five page paper discussing the finer details of translating Pauline Greek and the ramifications of accidently mistranslating a preposition.
Watched an undergrad propose in the middle of a no star, tex-mex restaurant. (she said yes.)
Watched two undergrad boys (and I do mean boys) cover the floor of the mens restroom at said tex-mex [...]