My family is getting ready for the Lutheran Year. During the summer of 2012 we will move to Berkeley, California and settle in so I can attend Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Very often people ask me: What is the Lutheran Year? The Lutheran Year is a one year residency at a Lutheran Seminary of the [...]
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The personal blog of Wesley Menke
The Golden Arches of the Covenant
Today was a daddy daughter day. Park, lunch, walk, gymnastics, and McDonalds. My kids, and many many many other kids love McDonalds, which makes me wonder, how could the church be more like McDonalds? Consider the following observations: Patrons are a diverse group of people, many different cultures feel welcome Kids are welcome, and have [...]
Taco Truck Religion
Today was the first day of my last semester at Claremont School of Theology. As I drove home I passed a taco truck parked in the parking lot of a gas station. People milled all around it ordering food, and eating tacos with their heads tilted to the side, their shoulders raised, and the collars [...]
Continue Reading →Tannins & Seminary
I can’t write about tannins without thinking about the movie, “Sideways.” Sheri and I honeymooned in wine country both in the Los Olivos area and later in Sonoma valley. Although we don’t qualify as “cork dorks” we do like wine tasting and of course the subject of tannins is very present. Below you see a [...]
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Near and around our house many squirrels have been visiting us. Some say that this is due to a nearby artificial lake that has been drained. We don’t mind them too much as of yet, because they haven’t done any damage and they are cute. But as we daily walked our nephew and niece to [...]
Produce in Pershing
The longer I live in southern California the more I like going to Los Angeles. My daughter and I took the train into the city this morning to do some shopping and have some fun. We noticed lots of other tourist types like us, including families with kids out of school. As we walked past [...]
Christmas
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Pacific Standard Time
I went to Los Angeles last week with my wife Sheri to celebrate our anniversary. We had a great time. We went to LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which is participating in Pacific Standard Time, an art show across Los Angeles that celebrates works and culture from the 70′s and 80′s. The [...]
Continue Reading →An Object of Comfort
I woke up this morning to the sun peeping over the horizon. Illuminated by it’s presence was a cross, solitary on the horizon. So simple, and perhaps unintentional, I was called to remember my faith. I though about “white noise” the phrase which describes background sounds which fades away. So there are background images too [...]
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Two weeks ago I completed one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education. I didn’t do much blogging during that time, mostly because it was a busy time, but also because it was intense! There was so much to process that I wanted some distance before writing about it in a public forum. But enough apologies. Here’s [...]
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