Category: Of Random Interest

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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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

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, 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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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.

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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This isn’t a thought I’ve had before. Inter­est­ing.west side sto­ry online

One of our wor­ship lead­ers, Awa, has some of the most quotable lines of any­one I know.

As exhib­it A, I sub­mit the fol­low­ing excerpt from an email to our group last week:

It’s spring quar­ter peo­ple, time to pro­cras­ti­nate so you can enjoy the beau­ti­ful warm weath­er and the beau­ti­ful peeps of Chi Alpha. I mean, we are a good look­ing bunch…I say that in truth and with humil­i­ty…

How mag­nif­i­cent is that lan­guage?

Any­way, at least one reporter at the Stan­ford Dai­ly agrees with me: Awa was quot­ed not once but twice in a recent arti­cle as was Chris, anoth­er of our stu­dents.

For con­text, the arti­cle is about a Hawai­ian Lu’au on cam­pus.

…kahlua pig … is tra­di­tion­al­ly pre­pared by fill­ing the pig’s abdom­i­nal cav­i­ty with hot stones, then plac­ing the pig in a pit con­tain­ing hot stones.

“But I’m sure San­ta Clara Coun­ty wouldn’t have been too open to that idea, so we hand-shred­ded the 40 lbs. of pork our­selves using forks,” said Lu’au Co-Chair Awa­puhi Dan­cil ‘10. “The hard­est part was fig­ur­ing out how much of each item to buy. Peo­ple at Cost­co kept star­ing at us since we had 40 toma­toes, pineap­ples and pounds of salmon.”

And then lat­er on,

“The mem­bers of the Hawai’i Club poured our heart and soul into this event, work­ing at 100 mph,” Dan­cil said.

And the con­tri­bu­tion from Chris:

Per­haps the most inter­est­ing side dish was the poi, pound­ed taro root that is knead­ed into a smooth paste, tra­di­tion­al­ly meant to be eat­en by scoop­ing it out of a bowl with one’s fin­gers.

“I still haven’t made up my mind about the poi,” said Chris Oli­vares ‘10. “But every­thing else is absolute­ly deli­cious. I came last year and had to come again to sup­port friends and watch the great dances. And how often do you get to have authen­tic Hawai­ian food that’s real­ly good?”

So a big shout out to you both for your 15 min­utes of fame.

Although next time you’re talk­ing about slaugh­tered pigs and root paste try to fig­ure out a sub­tle way to work in “Chi Alpha Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship meets at 7:30pm every Wednes­day school is in ses­sion in build­ing 300–300.” I’m not quite sure how to do that ele­gant­ly, but there must be some way. Maybe some­thing like “Of course, slaugh­tered pigs can­not atone for our sins. They are mere­ly tasty. How­ev­er, there is one sac­ri­fice

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that has already been giv­en on our behalf, and we’ll be talk­ing about it this Wednes­day… etc, etc”. 🙂trad­ing places movie down­load

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Bri­an just tagged me with this sem­i­nary ques­tion­naire. As I’ve men­tioned before, sem­i­nary is great prepa­ra­tion for min­istry. In fact, I think the ide­al min­istry tra­jec­to­ry is for some­one to go a sec­u­lar uni­ver­si­ty for their under­grad and then to get sem­i­nary train­ing. This is more com­mon than many sup­pose — rough­ly half the stu­dents at my sem­i­nary came from sec­u­lar uni­ver­si­ties.

Any­way, here’s the meme:

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This Sem­i­nary Meme is part of a com­pe­ti­tion spon­sored by Going to Sem­i­nary and Eisen­brauns. If you’d like to be entered, sim­ply answer the 7 ques­tions below and tag 5 oth­er peo­ple. You’ll also need to post this para­graph (links includ­ed) with your answers as the links will be tracked back to your blog and will count as your “entry” into the com­pe­ti­tion. On April 30th, 2008, one blog­ger will be select­ed at ran­dom to win a $100 gift cer­tifi­cate to the Eisen­brauns online book­store.

1. Where did you attend sem­i­nary?
   

   The Assem­blies of God The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary

2. What class do you think has most impact­ed your spir­i­tu­al life?
   

   Effec­tive Lead­er­ship with Mel Ming.

3. What sem­i­nary pro­fes­sor was most influ­en­tial while in sem­i­nary?
   

   Tough call. Remark­ably tough. Every prof I had at AGTS rocked my world one way or anoth­er.

4. What was the great­est chal­lenge you faced in sem­i­nary?
   

   Not coast­ing.

5. What was the great­est reward you expe­ri­enced in sem­i­nary?
   

   Grad­u­at­ing.

6. What did you do after sem­i­nary?
   

   The same thing I did while I was in sem­i­nary — I min­is­tered to stu­dents at sec­u­lar uni­ver­si­ties.

7. While in sem­i­nary, how many times were asked what you’d do after grad­u­at­ing?
   

   Almost nev­er — I telegraphed my inten­tions pret­ty clear­ly.

I’m sup­posed to tag five peo­ple. The amaz­ing Mr. Zick­afoose has not par­tic­i­pat­ed, and I don’t think Earl Creps

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