This is turning out to be an extraordinary weekend. I just got home a couple hours ago from the best (and also the largest - 146 people!) pre-confirmation retreat that I have experienced in a long time. I was deeply moved by the work of our DYC youth team. Their consistent dedication, remarkable leadership, amazing creativity, and passion for ( Read more... )

Today I was up in New Hampshire all day for the New England ACA conference (that's the American Camp Association for those of you who are not camp people) and it was an especially good conference this year. I learned a lot that we will implement this summer. Very exciting ( Read more... )

Well it has been a while since I have updated my journal so I decided it was time to post. March has been full of surprises. Fortunately most of them have been pleasant ones. I just got back about an hour and a half ago from Vermont. I drove up to Rutland Vt. on Saturday afternoon to spend some time with my wonderful cousins. We had an amazing ( Read more... )

These past few days since Ash Wednesday I have been trying to discern how the journey through Lent was going to function for me this year. I went to the Ash Wednesday service at Trinity as I usually do, and it was a powerful reminder of my need for this annual journey that our faith tradition offers us and of my mortality. I usually come out of ( Read more... )

This week I have been reflecting a lot on a verse from the Old Testament, Micah 6:8. This verse says “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God ( Read more... )

So today has been a really productive (and pretty nostalgic) day. I am just finishing moving and I am about to take my cable modem back to Comcast. Then it is home to sleep for a few hours and then late tonight I am leaving to drive down to Washington DC for a few days. On Monday I am going to drive up to my parents house in Pennsylvania and get ( Read more... )

This was a most interesting weekend. It started at 7am on Friday morning at the Harvard Club. A friend of mine who shares my interest in Globalization and equitable development invited me to a book discussion group that this month was focusing on one of the significant new books in the discussion of Globalization. Before the discussion group I had ( Read more... )

They have never heard anything like this at the National Prayer Breakfast before ( Read more... )

Today I have been reflecting a lot about college and about life. After the NFL Conference Championships (which were Sunday) I start to care about college basketball (there is only one football game of consequence left and that little event in Detroit is still 2 weeks away ( Read more... )

The rumors of the West Wing being cancelled are not completely accurate. It is true that the New York Times did indeed report yesterday that this will be the final season of the West Wing (one of the most critically acclaimed series in history, and your author’s favorite show) but we had seen signs of that as early as late last season. So this came ( Read more... )