Author: Glen

Hospitality Central

Dana has been getting quite confused–it seems that every morning she wakes up to find someone new in the house.

Four nights ago Andrew spent the night. Three nights ago it was Katie. Two nights ago it was Will & Jen Klier (incidentally, I helped them set up a new WordPress blog while they were here: TheKliers).

And in that whole mix we went out to lunch twice with alumni: Gareth and Elizabeth.

She’s warmed up to everyone pretty quickly, but I suspect that today she’ll be happier since this morning arrives without strangers and we’re not planning to travel anywhere.

Lindsey Hawley

Lindsey HawleyI met Lindsey this June while teaching at a conference in Springfield, MO. She was planning to go and work with Chi Alpha at UT Austin. The doors closed on her at the last minute and she was trying to figure out what to do.

Their loss is our gain, as she’s decided to come and work alongside Paula and I here at Stanford! Everyone who’s worked with her in the past has incredible things to say about her character and her competence. We’re very excited, and we can’t wait until she’s able to move down here from her Alaskan home.

There are still a few hurdles to be overcome (approval from various committees, raising her funding, etc), but we don’t foresee any problems. It will probably take about a year to get everything worked out, and then she’ll be joining us here on the Farm.

update: she’s launched her own website: Life With Lindsey.

Marketing Chi Alpha

I’m planning to take out some ads on TheFacebook.com and running them for one day each.

Here are the guidelines:

Your announcement may contain a title of up to 25 characters that links to another page, and a body of up to 150 characters. No HTML is allowed in either section.”

Title: Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship is too long.
Options: 

  1. XA Christian Fellowship
  2. Chi Alpha @ Stanford
  3. Chi Alpha, Baby!
  4. Got Faith?
  5. Faith, Friends, Fun
  6. T or F: God exists.
  7. Dopeless Hope Fiends

Ideally, I’d like a funny one. A funny question would be best, I think. It’s hard to be funny in 25 characters or less. Each one would link to xaStanford.org.

As for text, here are some options I’m looking at:

  1. Most of your textbooks will be out of print next year. Ours has been around for 2,000. It’s worth taking a look at. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship
  2. Attending Chi Alpha has just become a requirement for graduation! Would we lie to you? And is it lying if you expect not to be believed?
  3. Is there a God? We like to think so–come find out why. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship — Wed nights at 8pm in 300–300
  4. No dues. No booze. Just Jesus. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship — Wed nights at 8pm in 300–300
  5. What does Satan call isolated Christians? Hors Doeuvres. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship — Wed nights at 8pm in 300–300
  6. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship — Wed nights at 8pm in 300–300

Here’s the problem–I don’t really like any of them that much. I don’t hate them, exactly, they just don’t get me excited.

If you have any better ideas, leave them in the comments. I can use up to five.

PersonalMDiv.com

I’ve been slowly stewing an idea in my brain for a few days now, and I finally decided to act on it. I noticed the creation of personalmba.com with interest, but didn’t think much about it until I saw that Jordon Cooper was inspired to create a comparable M. Div. list (thanks to Andrew Jones for pointing it out).

Anyway, I noticed that there was some criticism of the overall idea and of the specific book choices (some of the criticism was thoughtful, some was knee-jerk). I thought it would be great to create a wiki to let the broader community craft a list of books, articles, and projects that would really make a difference in someone’s ministry.

So I did. I present PersonalMDiv.com.

Have at it.

Everyone Has A Blog…

There’s a few small things I’ve been meaning to post for a while, but that I just haven’t gotten around to:

One of our students, Alan Asbeck, was featured on television for a patent application involving a wall-climbing robot. How cool is that?

My pastor has a blog now: check out Scott Aughtmon at Random Ramblings of a Church Gatherer.

In fact, more and more of my friends are blogging.

And those are just people that I actually have a real-life, 3D relationship with. If you count people I’ve met at conferences (such as Andrew Careaga) or in passing (like Mark Batterson), the list would be ridiculously longer.

Media Shout 3.0

I finally got my upgrade copy of MediaShout in the mail yesterday.

Wow.

This release fixes everything I’ve ever disliked about MediaShout and adds tons of new features I’d never considered.

The three best upgrades:
* You can play just a specific, custom clip from a DVD. So you just want to play from 1.54.36 to 1.57.12? Done.
* All songs now have permanent formatting stored in the database. No need to reformat every stinking time you use the song!
* You can edit text cues directly from within the program–no more random RTF files lying about.

Also, it looks like they’re trying to break into the VJ market–the new version includes better support for mixing video feeds on the fly. Still, it just doesn’t compare to Arkaos in that department.

The one thing I really wish they had done was include the Greek & Hebrew Bibles (they include the Latin Vulgate–why not the original text?).

Overall, I’m thrilled.