I ran the Broad Street Run (10 miles) yesterday. The weather was perfect. I only run two or three races a year. It is quite a rush to gather with a group of runners (22,000) and spectators. Here are some random thoughts and oberservations about the race and running in general:
1. There are internal and external dimensions of running. [...]
I have not felt like blogging recently. Here are some highlights in this week’s curriculum vitae:
Friday, April 25: I went to hear Willard Swartley at the Parish Resource Center. The topic was “Teaching and Preaching on War and Peace.” He was very good. Dr. Bob Webber provided a response. Some good exchange. I need to [...]
I don’t know how it is for you, but I find that neighbors can live in proximate anonymity. Like trees growing in a stand of woods, we are privy to each others movements, yet strangers to each others private worlds.
O, there is the occasional exchange of pleasantries on the way to get the newspaper, to [...]
The brown patches in my greening lawn are the work of grubs my neighbor tells me. Apparently my tardy application of Scotts Step 3 last year was not good enough. “They eat the roots of your grass,” my neighbor says. “That’s why those patches are coming in brown.” Yet, green blades of new grass buoy [...]
Martin Luther King, Jr. on War
Today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I am amazed at how much he accomplished in his short life. He was the leader of a movement. A prophetic voice for civil rights…against the wars of empire. He was a courageous voice speaking out of the [...]
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. –Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. –Mother Teresa
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. –Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success, I ask [...]
Sometimes I get to put our youngest to bed for an afternoon nap. Hollyn usually wants me to read the same three books. Going to the Zoo, Hey, Pancakes! and A Bad Case of Stripes. There is something comforting about this ritual. We know the narrative, but we are drawn into the familiar rhythm of the words…pictures. [...]
U2 Praise & Worship: 40/Streets Prayer Breakfast
I went to see U23D at the Whitaker Center last evening. I have never been to a live U2 concert before, but this was no doubt the next best thing.
…from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.” For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night. You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in [...]
“So do you think we are going to have a Muslim president?”
My colleague’s question caught me off guard. I looked up from the stack of papers I was beginning to grade during my planning period. I had turned the TV on to MSNBC and the political pundits were breaking down the prospects of Barack Obama [...]
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