So I may have to buy a MacBook. I know, this is terrible. But my laptop will stay with St. Paul's when I leave, and everything at my new church is Mac. Oh the misery ( Read more... )

Welcome, friends and strangers. Here are the new guidelines of this journal:

1. This is a personal journal, and the thoughts posted here are non-professional in nature. Anyone can read and share the public posts. I'm not going to advertise it and I'd ask that people not link to it from well-traveled sites, but I'm not hiding it either. It's even ( Read more... )

If you attempted to read this journal over the past couple of days and were not signed into a live journal account, you may have noticed some changes.

Namely, it may look like I've deleted the whole thing.

So here's what happened: As I mentioned earlier, my wordpress blog got over 1000 hits on Wednesday, and people started doing odd things like ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, the day No Impact Man plugged my sermon, my wordpress blog got 1,042 hits ( Read more... )

In an earlier post, I wrote about praying for a woman whose family wants her to get better while she herself wants to be at peace:

And here I sit with a theology that says I can’t really request that God make anything happen.

A commenter on my WordPress Blog asked if I could say more about that, or if I’ve written about it in the past. I’m sure I ( Read more... )

Thanks for the responses on my previous post about alternate blog spaces. You guys are in agreement, and from what I've seen of some pages I like, wordpress is the way to go for a second blog and archive ( Read more... )