I think that's how I used to think of Rosa Parks sometimes. That in her head she knew that her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus would ignite the civil rights movement that changed a nation. In my head, she's a superhero of her own making; a firebrand revolutionary who stood against the powers in expectation of being vindicated ( Read more... )

I don't know why I always wait until 10 minutes before Palio closes to start updating my LJ. I am sitting here with my friend Ross while he does Differential Equations homework (yuck) and I let my half unread Presocratics Reader lay on the table mocking my illusions of productivity. I'm kind of enjoying the tension to be honest ( Read more... )

My friend Cristin got married last night and a fun time was had by all in Kentucky. Since I know she reads this--congratulations! Thanks so much for a great weekend ( Read more... )

What has happened in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan is horrible...

There is no pirate theme to this entry, but I've always loved that phrase. Anyhoo ( Read more... )

Today was quite a day. On the hard front, there was some relational conflict that came up today that is going to take quite a bit of undoing. *sigh* I wish it was easy to assign blame in this, but the reality is that it's just hard and somehow we have to get through it and find peace and unity on the other side. These are the times when I am ( Read more... )

Instead of doing anything productive, I am surfing the internet at the Al-Bahsous' house. I did finally get out some important emails that I've been slacking on, one of which might land me a gig doing a book review for a biannual journal of Culture and Theology called Cultural Encounters. The creator of the journal is a professor at Multnomah here ( Read more... )

( A hodge podge of update... )

( Where can we see God? )

*I've decided that Herodotus' Histories is much more entertaining than Homer's Iliad. I mean seriously, what other ancient piece of literature traces a war back to someone's dream about a daughter peeing (or "making water" as it is translated by Aubry de Selincourt) so much it covers all of Asia ( Read more... )