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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →A Sacred Canopy
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 [...]
Continue Reading →CPE – A Shot in the Arm
Not one, but two needle pricks to the arm are required to become a staff-person at Methodist Hospital. When I went in for my second TB test I made small talk with the person working at the information desk who wrote out a name tag for me to wear. I mentioned that I was back [...]
Continue Reading →Can We Collaborate?
Yesterday was the first “Table Talk” of the year at the Center for Lutheran Studies at Claremont School of Theology. It was rockin! And by rockin’ I mean that Lutheran style refreshments were enjoyed by many as well as good, deep, challenging conversation with the occasional humorous outburst, not unlike the writing of Martin Luther. [...]
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