I have a young friend, a student that lives at The Purple Door. This person, by admission, dislikes the unplanned life. As little spontaneity as possible is the rule. Instead, there are lists - lists about everything. Lists of schedules, meals, books to read, graduate schools to consider, everything. This student once told me about [...]
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Looks like I lost a blog post in WordPress, so this is attempt #2.
I was very happy to get the e-mail notification that Todd Hunter is blogging once again, after a disastrously long hiatus. I have learned so much from this guy over the past several years, it’s crazy. I’ve gotten to know him a [...]
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While we do still have a week to go with the UW school year, last night was slated to be our final teach-in for the year, and in a sense, the closing of inter::mission. Our culture project in India is definitely a part of the inter::mission process, but it’s also a somewhat separate thing.
As it [...]
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The days are blowing by me sooooo fast around here. It seems like just a couple days ago, the inter::mission gang was over at The Mustard Seed house. Alas, that was two weeks ago, which means that last night was time for the next teach-in. As we move toward the end of [...]
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Sorry for the quiet blog of late. It seems that multiple things are converging on me at once, which does happen. Lately I’ve been hunkering down on some school stuff that I just plain need to get out of the way before I plunge headlong into my dissertation writing this summer. I’m reading hundreds of [...]
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How far does one have to drive in order to qualify for a road trip? Does the answer change if there are nine people in two cars? Does the answer change if there are nine people, two crock pots full of vegetarian chili, three loaves of french bread, and a couple bowls of fruit salad? [...]
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Yes, we’re still on about this stuff. The pace of blogging seems to have slowed a little, but I think that may just be a brief lull to ponder what’s been said, and what’s left to mention. For some reason, I feel a need to say something for the record - this conversation [...]
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Several months ago, I jumped on the social networking bandwagon that is Twitter. For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is sort of a cross between a blog and a Facebook status update. Except, it’s more like a Facebook status update on crack, only more addictive. Also, you only get 140 characters to express [...]
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Following on the recently exploded series of posts from around the blogosphere, some of us at The Purple Door were having a conversation yesterday. Should young people avoid going to seminary now, if their degrees will ultimately be unmarketable and unhelpful in the pseudo-real world?
My answer: maybe, maybe not.
There are (and always have been) [...]
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In case you’ve missed the last two posts, there’s a good conversation going, and it’s snowballing. More voices have been added, and I have it on good authority that there’s more coming.
For now, check out the contributions by:
Lindsay
Daniel So
Kevin Rains
It seems to me that these conversations are both new and old. They’re new in the [...]
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