March 25, 2009

Treacherous & Lengthy Commute

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After the treacherous and lengthy commute from work to home (how embarrassing to trip over your own patio furniture, all because you forgot to turn the back porch light on, and the illumination from the outbuildings only goes so far), I am home again, still somewhat Typhoid Mary, but stuffed to the gills with excellent potluck fare (four cheese quiche, pasta salad with pine nuts, turkey salad, and salsa rice & beans with bread), and my head full of interesting thoughts about John 12: 23-30.

Hm.  What was that bit I rewrote/retranslated in the end?  Shoot.  Something like… If you live for your ego at the expense of the common dignity of humanity, then in the end you’ll have nothing but your ego left.  If you sacrifice your ego at the altar of the common dignity of humanity, you may lose you ego, but you’ll have gained the whole world.  Yea.  Something like that. I think I could preach that.  In fact, I think I will.  (Subject to change.)

Anyway, it was very cool to see some new faces there, and I hope they found it interesting, worthwhile, and above all, safe.

Still thinking about what I’ll add to the clergyblog.  But I’m thinking about renaming it ClergyBlog.

 

March 11, 2009

A Smidgeon of Not Much

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This is just a little moment of reflection.  

This evening’s potluck/biblestudy was on Jesus’ temple temper tantrum, as found in the gospel of John (aka, John 2:13-22).  There were some different voices there tonight, which always makes for a different group dynamic. But as always, even when I have doubts mid-stream as to how well this particular bible study is going to turn out, by the end there’s always something.  Though, I suppose that’s how this sort of bible study goes: you warm up from beginning to end.

It’s going to be interesting, preaching on this gospel snippet. 

Hm.  And now the choice:  do I go read the next few chapters of the Bishop Spong book I’m working on (‘Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism’), do I work on my novel, or do I fritter away the rest of my evening poking about on the internet?

Eeenie, meanie, miney, mo…

 

And what did we eat tonight? High carb.  It’s a good thing no one was gluten free – they could have had the coffee, and the butter.

 

February 13, 2007

The Blogging Showdown

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Merp.

Okay, so this is what I’m talking about. Work!Blog vs. Personal!LJ.

The issue: Lent. Where and how to log the blog?

kaikouragirl and I have contracted to do a Lenten Discipline together (despite the fact that we live very far away from each other). We’re going to spend 30 minutes every day doing something creative, and thus, returning to our source, Creation. Spifferonie. No worries there. No, no, the question is: do I keep track of this on my work blog or my personal lj? Or both?

If both, both, identically, or both in kind of a different way? ::sigh:: I think I’m kind of leaning toward both, in a different way.

Thoughts? Comments?

Anybody want to join us? It beats trying to give up chocolate or caffiene, in a whole host of different ways.

And for anyone who is interested, my mentor’s Lenten Discipline is to keep a blog (he’s not a tech person) on Reinventing Christianity, and can be found here: trinitybuffalo.org/camsblog.html. He’s a pretty spiffy guy, and I highly recommend it to anyone who might be interested. (Shameless pimpage, I know, but still. Aren’t blogs all about that, anyway – opinions, creativity, and shameless pimpage of others?)

 

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