A couple of days ago, I was invited to speak at a religious studies class here at OSU. Unfortunately, due to work, it appeared very unlikely that I would get to attend, but things eventually worked out and the stars aligned, and I got to go ( Read more... )

I don't have too much to say about the current "Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal," not really. I've read the reports, and others have read the reports, and a bunch of people who know more than I do about it have commented on it quite in-depth (as have a lot of people who know nothing about it). But there's something that bothers me about it that ( Read more... )

So, this may be a tad belated, but I've had a lot of high school, middle school, and even elementary school friends find me via Facebook and other social networking projects. This message is for you, and all those who have "friended" me but don't know a lot about me (including family members and internet strangers, I guess ( Read more... )

It's been a busy few weeks:

• There's a new Clergy Training Program in town - The Council of Lore has gathered enough votes to pass the revisions to the ADF Clergy Training Program. I cannot tell you how pleased-as-punch I am that's all over. I'm very, very pleased with the new program, and it seems like most others are as well. It's got new ( Read more... )

Today, I received an invitation to a celebration of my fiftieth anniversary of my graduation from Ohio State. Yep, the good ol' days, when Woody was coaching and I was but a mere pup of a lad. . .

Indeed, you read that right: somehow, Ohio State thinks I've graduated for 50 years ago and that I still have the same e-mail address they had on file ( Read more... )

One of my co-workers in the Tech Support area has apparently had a rough day of it. I wandered down to the Support Center to get a drink of water and heard him muttering, "Hi, this is [name], how can I Google that for you?"

I spent a few minutes out on the Oval today listening to Tom Short, one of the local campus preachers, which brought back ( Read more... )

I don't really watch much football, but when I do, I like to see one of two things: A) Ohio State, and/or B) a good game ( Read more... )

My deadline for finishing two CTP 3 courses is tomorrow: Crisis Response and Theatre for Ritual 1. As you can tell from the links, right now I'm nearly done with one and haven't started the other, so I may be working on those tomorrow morning. Just need one resource to finish CR, and I don't think that Theatre for Ritual will be too bad. . . but it ( Read more... )

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I just realized that sometimes, when you say, "I don't mean to be pushy, but. . ." what you're really saying is, "Dude, tell me now. Like, yesterday." But you want to be polite about it, even though you know you don't have time to be polite ( Read more... )