Musings on Education, Technology, Pop Culture, Religion & Staying Curious
Saturday Afternoon, The Theater at Avalon Island, Downtown Orlando. The speaker shared his insights into what he called the seven concentric circles of spirituality or mysticism. I’m usually leery of anything that looks like a kind of spiritual “system.” But then as I listened I was reminded of my first year of university, at LMU, [...]
It’s recently come to my attention that I have an addiction. I’m guessing that this addiction flew under the radar before because I was never in a position to indulge it, but for some time now I’ve been spending more and more time… watching videos… on TED. As I previously noted the horror of all [...]
One of the greatest benefits of living in this age is the possibility of going directly to the first sources when one wants to read or listen to the thoughts of any particular speaker or thinker. Back in my Fuller days in the early 80s one of my favorite professors, Colin Brown, commented that then [...]
Around Christmas time I was having dinner with a fellow Biola graduate and we were talking about the future plans of the church we both attended and whether I was going to take a job offer to teach college in Florida. It wasn’t life and death stuff, but pretty important, nonetheless. A few minutes into [...]
07-20 In His Presence Conference 2007, originally uploaded by boringcom. Mixed emotions about the end of the conference. My first thought is that it would have been preferred to share this experience with someone (which is what I was thinking on day one). The next thing on my mind is my “calling.” I went forward [...]
07-20 In His Presence Conference 2006, originally uploaded by boringcom. I was thinking on my way here about where I was at when I attended last year’s conference. I had left Pepperdine’s doctorate program the previous January and barely survived the teaching year. I’d gone to San Diego for a national tech conference. I was [...]
I need to write. A lot has gone unspoken, mostly because I haven’t done a very good job managing my time. Blah, blah, blah… I’ve been sustaining myself via my almost daily listening to J. Vernon McGee’s Thru the Bible Radio biblestudy. Lots of good stuff, but, for me, it doesn’t seem to be doing [...]
I got a Saturday night call last weekend to come back to Long Beach to lead music because Ron was sick. But this Sunday, because I was spending the night at my brother’s place, I’m continuing my road-trip and I thought I’d spend my Sunday morning at Calvary Chapel Mission Viejo. Alas, Pastor Neil was [...]
The last few months have been a bit difficult at church because our numbers continue to be around six (counting myself, the other worship leader, the pastor and his wife!). I know last summer my mindset was very much about improving the website to help “advertise” that we were even around in Long Beach. And [...]
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