[short version] BFFCon 2010, Round 2: Ari's 25th birthday party
Saturday night's party ended up being just me, Ari, thelastgoodname, and mayhap -- which actually worked out really well.
On the way to the airport on Saturday, I joked that I could say I was in costume as a seminarian. This ended up being a moot point (see above re: party attendance) but it is still a true story -- conversations back at the apartment after church on Sunday involved N. T. Wright's Matthew study guide/devotional, 2 Bibles (NRSV & The Inclusive Bible), 2 hymnals (ELCA & UMC); and discussion of: Pamela Greenberg's talk about the English translation of the Psalms for devotional usage she recently did, Robert Alter [who yeah, I think did do the Five Books of Moses my mom has], learning Hebrew, and the Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary.
Neither TLGN nor I came prepared with an agenda, so there was maybe not quite so much conversation over the course of the weekend as there could have been, but that was okay.
On the way to the airport on Saturday, I joked that I could say I was in costume as a seminarian. This ended up being a moot point (see above re: party attendance) but it is still a true story -- conversations back at the apartment after church on Sunday involved N. T. Wright's Matthew study guide/devotional, 2 Bibles (NRSV & The Inclusive Bible), 2 hymnals (ELCA & UMC); and discussion of: Pamela Greenberg's talk about the English translation of the Psalms for devotional usage she recently did, Robert Alter [who yeah, I think did do the Five Books of Moses my mom has], learning Hebrew, and the Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary.
Neither TLGN nor I came prepared with an agenda, so there was maybe not quite so much conversation over the course of the weekend as there could have been, but that was okay.