Stanford at the Olympics

Stan­ford has 46 ath­letes com­pet­ing in the Olympics this year. Get a sum­ma­ry of the lat­est news or see sto­ries with pic­tures and more details down­load scenes of a sex­u­al nature online . to daylilies apply­ing colchicine down­load bratz genie mag­ic dvd

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Stanford Rocks It Again

The 2008 world rank­ing of uni­ver­si­ties has just been released, and yet again Stan­ford occu­pies the #2 spot in the whole world

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It real­ly is an amaz­ing place to do min­istry. Big thanks to all of you who pray for and sup­port us. bergen coun­ty breast aug­men­ta­tion

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California Is Amazing

In the last few days, my work has tak­en me to preach in Sono­ra, CA (where I was able to take an excur­sion to Yosemite Val­ley and also stand upon Glac­i­er Point divx machine girl the

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(near San­ta Cruz) help­ing with a youth camp, and it’s allowed me to have lunch with a wor­ship pas­tor in San Fran­cis­co. And in the mid­dle I got to hang out with some of the most amaz­ing peo­ple in the world at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty.

If you’re keep­ing score, that’s two instances of moun­tain­ous beau­ty, one day of beachy fun, one inci­dent of cos­mopoli­tan ele­gance, and sev­er­al heap­ing sides of aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly elite intel­lec­tu­al stim­u­la­tion. All in under a week.

I’m blown away at (a) how cool my state is and (b) how delight­ful my job is.

If your life is insuf­fi­cient­ly fab­u­lous, con­sid­er com­ing to Cal­i­for­nia to do col­lege min­istry. It rocks.

George Wood — From Great To Awesome

I was very sur­prised to see this

in my news feed when I logged onto Face­book this morn­ing.

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Dr. Wood, you are offi­cial­ly awe­some. I pre­vi­ous­ly sus­pect­ed that you might be, but now I know with cer­tain­ty.

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Great Bumper Sticker

Liv­ing the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area, I’ve seen just about every anti-Bush bumper stick­er you can imag­ine. It’s rare that I see a fresh one.

Today while dri­ving around I saw one that actu­al­ly made me chuck­le.

I want a pres­i­dent who can talk good­er.

Regard­less of your polit­i­cal lean­ings, that’s fun­ny.free girl next door the

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Selecting Good Workers

I just watched an excel­lent lec­ture by Mal­colm Glad­well on the chal­lenges of hir­ing wise­ly

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Very stim­u­lat­ing.

The same thing hap­pens in min­istry at both the cler­gy and the lay lev­el. We over-val­ue artic­u­late extraverts and are dis­mis­sive of those who don’t fit the mold.

But I know sev­er­al out­stand­ing min­is­ters who break every mold you can imag­ine. Every­one who knows lots of min­is­ters does. And yet some­how we don’t inter­nal­ize this real-world feed­back. Like Samuel and David’s rel­a­tives, we mea­sure the wrong things.

Any­way, all that to say that Glad­well’s talk is help­ful at illus­trat­ing the extent to which we hire fool­ish­ly in our cul­ture.

P.S. Extro­vert vs Extravert. Either spelling is accept­able. I used “extravert” because I’ve noticed that’s the spelling most psy­chol­o­gists seem to use.

1,825 miles and 841 pages later…

Yes­ter­day I flew 1,825 miles and read 841 pages. Yikes.

The last few weeks have been a blur. On Father’s Day I watched an astound­ing group of grad­u­ates cel­e­brate as they received their degrees from Stan­ford. As I sat in the hot sum­mer sun lis­ten­ing to Oprah Win­frey pon­tif­i­cate at com­mence­ment

, I thought about their lives and what God might do through them. I also got sun­burn.

The day after grad­u­a­tion I hopped on a plane to Spring­field, MO to teach at Chi Alpha’s Reach The U insti­tute (that trip wound up being 2,278 miles due to weird rout­ing — I did­n’t think to keep track of the pages I read, but I will tell you that Augus­tine of Hip­po

is a dense read). Train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lead­ers is fun, but exhaust­ing. On the two worst days I taught 6 hours! I’m amazed I did­n’t lose my voice.

One cool thing — I shared a bath­room with fel­low instruc­tor Pete Bul­lette, some­one I had trained at this same con­fer­ence years ago. He now leads a min­istry of 250 stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia down­load the invin­ci­ble iron man dvd . While I don’t think I can take cred­it for what he’s done there, I was hap­py that he mocked me for some of my actions those many years ago — it means I made an impres­sion. 🙂 Who knows what the new min­is­ters I trained over the last few weeks will go on to accom­plish?

All that to say, I have one of the best jobs in the world. I get to help the amaz­ing stu­dents at Stan­ford come to and grow in faith, and I get to train min­is­ters who will mul­ti­ply this on cam­pus­es around the world.

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Earth Day, Jesus, and Christian Environmentalism

I’m in Spring­field, MO at a Chi Alpha con­fer­ence where I’ve taught approx­i­mate­ly 12 hours in the last two days.

Yes, that’s as gru­el­ing as it sounds. It’s been fun, though.

Any­way, while here I got to hang with Dar­rin Rodgers

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, an old sem­i­nary bud­dy who is now a his­to­ri­an. He told me some­thing that blew my mind: the founder of Earth Day (the first Earth Day, I should say — there are two) is a Pen­te­costal Chris­t­ian. His name is John McConnell. If you are a paci­fist you will find his sto­ry espe­cial­ly inter­est­ing — read some reviews of his biog­ra­phy.

I’m encour­aged that a fol­low­er of Jesus was at the fore­front of the ear­ly envi­ron­men­tal move­ment. It is easy to grow dis­ap­point­ed in Chris­tian­i­ty if you focus on the inac­tiv­i­ty of the insti­tu­tion­al church and for­get that the faith, ulti­mate­ly, is expressed in indi­vid­ual lives. But when you remem­ber that the church’s busi­ness is to not to engage in activism itself but rather to release Chris­tians to serve God’s pur­pos­es in the world, you can actu­al­ly become quite gid­dy. We still have a long way to go, but we’re doing far bet­ter than the world or the church seems to think. When I peek deep into a pos­i­tive sit­u­a­tion I often dis­cov­er a Jesus-fol­low­er (or even a few) at the heart of it.

So if you’re a fan of Earth Day (the orig­i­nal), then remem­ber to thank God for it. And keep your eyes open — God is at work in unex­pect­ed places.

Unexpected Perspective on Worship

I’ve been prepar­ing to teach some ses­sions at Reach The U (a con­fer­ence for new cam­pus min­is­ters) and I just read one of the most unex­pect­ed lit­tle para­graphs while dig­ging through some research:

Across the Unit­ed States, Asian Amer­i­can groups are pio­neer­ing a revival of a cap­pel­la singing. On West Coast col­lege cam­pus­es, Kore­an Amer­i­can evan­gel­i­cals are known for their cut­ting-edge praise music. Stu­dents of oth­er eth­nic­i­ties com­mon­ly note, “Oh, the Kore­ans have a great wor­ship team.” Indeed they do. Although Asian Amer­i­can evan­gel­i­cals’ praise is large­ly sim­i­lar to oth­er evan­gel­i­cals, it is often more cut­ting edge. They use the lat­est praise music com­ing out of the Unit­ed King­dom as well as the Unit­ed States—before the oth­er cam­pus min­istries do the same. They tend to use more mod­ern musi­cal instru­ments like elec­tric pianos, bass, and gui­tar than some of the oth­er tra­di­tion­al­ly white-dom­i­nant cam­pus min­istries.

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Evil Raccoons and Mendacious Students

wounded-whitneyA few weeks ago, Whit­ney showed up to Chi Alpha’s week­ly meet­ing with a large ban­dage wrapped around her hand. I asked her what had hap­pened, and she told me of a fero­cious rac­coon attack while walk­ing along Lake Lagu­ni­ta.

This was not sur­pris­ing to me. Rac­coons are evil. All right-think­ing peo­ple know this in their mar­row.

Sure, they look cute with their lit­tle paws and their masked face, but even Satan seems to be a beau­ti­ful angel

. No — rac­coons are as evil as a sub­hu­man mam­mal can be. And giv­en that rac­coons roam freely

across cam­pus, some­thing like this was inevitable.

Real­iz­ing that I was sit­ting on enter­tain­ment gold, I asked Whit­ney to keep silent until the announce­ment time, when I would inter­view her and allow her to regale the entire group with her sto­ry.

After wor­ship, I called her to the front and asked her what had hap­pened. As she held her ban­daged hand high and said, “I was bit­ten by a rac­coon,” Desir­ae cried out, “I knew those things were dan­ger­ous!” A hush fell over the room as she began to tell her tale.

She and her room­mate had been walk­ing around Lake Lag when Whit­ney noticed a rac­coon mov­ing about in the bush­es. She turned to her room­mate to point it out and saw a flur­ry of motion out of the cor­ner of her eye. The next thing she knew, she was being lunged at by an appar­ent­ly car­niv­o­rous rac­coon. She fend­ed it off, suf­fer­ing a griev­ous hand wound in the process.

Her room­mate, a pre-med stu­dent, gave her some quick treat­ment and then she head­ed over to Vaden health cen­ter for fur­ther med­ica­tion.

At this point, you could have heard a pin drop in the Chi Alpha meet­ing. Every stu­dent there was think­ing of the many times they had seen rac­coons ram­bling across cam­pus, look­ing at Whit­ney’s ban­daged hand, and think­ing, “There but for the grace of God go I.”

At least until Whit­ney burst out laugh­ing and said, “And you believe me?”

I said, “Bwah?”

Whit­ney said, “I was mak­ing that up. I tripped and hurt my hand. My room­mate said that was too bor­ing and that I should make up a bet­ter sto­ry. So far every­one I’ve told has believed me.”

The room erupt­ed in laugh­ter.

For those keep­ing score:
Whit­ney: 1
Glen: 0
Rac­coons: neg­a­tive infin­i­ty

And that’s why peo­ple should always come to Chi Alpha in per­son rather than just watch­ing our meet­ings online — you nev­er know what’s going to hap­pen when the cam­er­a’s not run­ning.

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