Category: Culture
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I FEEL A LITTLE LIKE CHEVY CHASE
This is not a long blog post, but, a fun one. After I see all my church family this morning at worship the Greenbeans are handing over the keys to the house to our trusty house sitter (thanks Megan!) loading into the car and heading south. Tonight, if all goes according to plan, we will…
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KIDS CAMP IS TOMORROW–HOW COOL IS THAT
In the morning Pastor Greenbean goes to kids camp. It is a yearly ritual I have observed for sixteen summers, with only one interruption (that was the year I had a doctoral seminar at the same time). There is a special place in my heart for Bible camp which borders on mystical. At this stage…
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SPLENDID DELIGHTS OF SUMMER
Today is the first official day of summer and I feel like celebrating it. This celebratory mood might be brought on because the weather outside is summerish. This is in stark contrast to the weather over the weekend which was yuckish. The celebratory frame of mind might be brought on because last night I helped…
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PALMS TURNED UPWARD
REFLECTING ON OLD VOLUMES As a dedicated bibliophile one of my great joys is flipping through volumes in my library. A couple of weeks ago I picked up a collection of T.S. Eliot and thumbed through. I stopped and read through, over and over again, these amazing lines from The Rock. But it seems that…