Today marks the day the woman I love was born! Here’s my four girls celebrating…
Read MorePictures from the trip
Here’s a couple of pics from the trip: I took this shot of Marquand Chapel at the Divinity School…with my camera phone. I’m likin’ the camera phone! It was great to see Tony Jones, a friend from seminary, again. I forgot to get a picture …
Read MorePreaching re-imagined
I can be an obsessive person. After all kinds of input at this conference, more prolific blogging and journaling than I’ve had in forever, I found myself at the Hartford airport pulling out Doug Pagitt’s book, Preaching Re-imagined. Kathy looked at me and said, “You’re …
Read MoreWednesday Volf thought 5…giving
Miroslav spoke today about his latest book, “Free of Charge : Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace” (and follow Corey’s example, listen to me, and read this book). As so many have said, it is so important what and how we think …
Read MoreWednesday Volf thought 4…Yes and No
Last night I suggested that maybe Quakers have something to offer to the conversation about the real presence of God in our midst. We had a chance to write down questions to ask Miroslav today, and mine got asked: Is there space for us to …
Read MoreYDS library
YDS library Originally uploaded by gkoskela. This is one room in the Yale Divinity School library. Some are tempted by, say, a Lexus. This is my temptation .
Read MoreTuesday Volf thought 3…Curiosity
It’s been so great to hear AJ and Kathy and Steve say how much they appreciate Volf and love his spirit and his mind. I’m being reminded again how influential he’s been on my life, how much my classes with him, how chatting over coffee …
Read MoreTuesday Volf thought 2…Witnesses
Is it the pastor’s responsibility to provoke? Are we supposed to challenge, prick, prod, and push people into places of discomfort in their spiritual lives? Miroslav basically answered this as a “yes,” but I loved how he qualified that. “What do I do,” he said, …
Read MoreTuesday Volf thought 1…Story
(LOTS of stuff today. I’ll try breaking into little pieces in separate posts.) One of the major points Miroslav makes in Exclusion and Embrace is this–God demonstrated profound love to human beings through Jesus’ death. As the Apostle Paul said, “while we were still enemies, …
Read MoreThe conversation tonight
As you obviously noticed from the previous blog picture posts, this trip has already been outstanding…FOUR LICENSE PLATES ALREADY, PEOPLE! And, for the rest of you interested in my astute observations on mundane life, I’ve been musing about how weird it is to be three …
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