Hey, everyone. Thank you for supporting me as I’ve blogged over the past year and a half. I’m graduating from seminary on May 18. I know I’ve been a bit spotty in my blogging this semester, and I’m taking a sabbath from blogging of at least a couple of weeks. I’ll still be on social [...]
A good moral, my lord; it is not enough to speak, but to speak true. -Lysander, A Midsummer Nights’ Dream My dear Speech students, In April of 2010 after watching the video of my final assignment in which I read and retold Luke 12:22-34 Professor Rob Lanchester asked me to be his teaching assistant in [...]
Fun fact about PTS: you can earn credit within the Practical Theology department for being a part of the spring play. We’re performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of my all-time favorite plays. I’ve been cast in the role of Bottom the Weaver–a craftsman who loves acting and can be a bit melodramatic. Long ago, [...]
As I’m preparing to graduate I have to do a graduation audit. I’ve discovered I’ve taken over 30 credits of “unnecessary” classes. Meaning, classes I didn’t need to fulfill a specific requirement. I did need the credit hours to graduate, but I think it’s really interesting looking over the classes I chose to take for [...]
Prayer for the Final Semester of Seminary Holy Sofia, who has stood by us throughout our years,guide our final semester of seminary. Help us discern priorities, keep a steady balance, and fight off senior-itis. May our hearts always be turned toward your warming love-light. Forgive us when we take our experiences for granted and when [...]
Today I begin my final semester of seminary. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Well, I mean I have multiple feelings going on. I’m taking some cool courses this semester, so I’m excited about that. Job hunting is a bit stressful. Trying to get my calendar in order is proving to be exceedingly [...]
Advent is weird in higher education. Good weird but still weird. Advent officially begins when we are in the last swings of class and start prepping for finals but officially ends after we have left for the semester. So the question is, when does Advent/Christmas begin for college and all higher ed students? At my [...]
This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. Again. Isn’t it strange that every year we take the beautiful story that many of us have been told all our lives and that we consider very familiar and try to make it strange and new? I can’t be the only person who thinks this is weird. [...]
Below is the sermon I preached earlier this month at the CPM meeting where I was certified ready to receive a call. I got great feedback, and if I preach this again I will tweak some things. For now, I have kept it as I preached it. Will you pray with me? Holy Spirit, come [...]
Yesterday the committee overseeing my ordination process certified me ready to receive a call. Now I can start writing the long resume form my denomination uses for everyone looking for ministry jobs, and basically I can start formally looking for jobs really soon. I know about the realities of finding ministry jobs in the current [...]