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 [...]
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 →Playing Under Gray Skies!
I awoke at 5:30am with a few hours to spend reading. It was still dark outside, although that isn’t difficult this week with the southern California sky socked in with gray clouds. It feels like living in a wet climate lately, something like a cool version of Hawaii. It is a strange feeling to know [...]
Continue Reading →[Com]posting OC Wordcamp
The organizers of the 2011 OC Wordcamp wanted to “green it up.” One of the things they did was use compostable lanyards made out of bamboo. So being the eco-nerd that I am, I have decided to track the progress of decay (oxymoron). I’ll be updating periodicaly so be sure to check in. By the [...]
Continue Reading →Fits and Starts
Another semester of grad school/seminary is complete, and I have to say that this one really went by extremely fast. Halfway through the afternoon I could not stare at a computer screen any longer so I packed up my things and walked down foothill boulevard East to where I was pretty sure there was a [...]
Continue Reading →God of Grace and God of Glory
God of grace and God of glory, On Thy people pour Thy power. Crown Thine ancient church’s story, Bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, For the facing of this hour, For the facing of this hour. Lo! the hosts of evil ’round us, Scorn Thy Christ, assail His ways. [...]
Continue Reading →The Letter “E”
The drive to Big Bear is particularly steep and windy. As one negotiates hair pin turns in a 15 passenger van it is hard to look away from the road to enjoy the beauty of the landscape, but indeed it is grandiose. This past weekend the clouds and the fog buffeted the valleys and nooks [...]
Continue Reading →Holy Rain
What is the value of community? Today in chapel a student preached on the tension he feels between his inherited faith tradition and what he has learned at CST. To put it plainly the tension between liberal and conservative faith traditions. What I took from the homily, which I found to be powerful, is the [...]
Continue Reading →Safe Space for the Vulnerable
What’s the point of opening the blinds on a rainy day ? [unless you enjoy rainy days] I occasionally wonder why I have decided to go into ministry. Is the world of being religious worth it? There are sacrifices to be made. Being a Christian these days seems to be not popular. It is hard [...]
Continue Reading →Indomitable Spirit
A guest contribution from a classmate at CST, Russell Cortez: The following is a news clip found here. “Yesterday the soldiers from the Japanese Defense Force were going door-to-door, pulling bodies from homes flattened by the earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki City, a coastal town. Then amid the silent corpses, a baby cried out. More [...]
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