From Sean's email to the CAUMC listserv:Today is Maundy Thursday.  Maundy is from the Latin mandatum (from which we derive the English word "mandate").
Today, we remember the commandment Jesus gave the disciples:
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this all will know that you are my ( Read more... )

[Sidenote: Highs around 80F?  For multiple days in a row?  September, don't be that way ( Read more... )

I woke up on my own around eight o'clock this morning, which pleased me.  (Among other things, it meant I was well-rested after a solid eight hours of sleep ( Read more... )

So, when last we left our heroine (i.e., me) was heading off to Stanhope.  I was walking through the campus to the bus stop and it was sunny and there might have been the smell of freshly cut grass and I was reminded of nothing so much as walking across Smith campus late in a spring semester.  So much love ( Read more... )