Entries Categorized as 'PC(USA)'

Back in Princeton

August 24, 2007

Sarah and I are now back in Princeton. We accumulated over 6,000 miles on our Yaris, listened to some really amazing books on CD, including Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat” and the entire “His Dark Materials” Trilogy by Philip Pullman. 9am Saturday morning we’ll be sitting in the basement of the Mackay Campus Center [...]

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On the Road: Update #2

August 18, 2007

I received an email from a friend today asking if I was okay or not - since I hadn’t updated my blog since the 13th. So, just in case anyone else was worried, I thought I’d post an update. We had a good couple days in Yellowstone (we put a lot of photos up here), [...]

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Roadtrip out West

August 10, 2007

We are in the car today driving up to Rochester, NY to stay the night with Sarah’s parents. They are being very gracious and are going to watch Sadie for 2 weeks(!). Then early Saturday morning we begin our roadtrip out west to get to Burley, Idaho for a Committee on Preparation for Ministry (CPM) [...]

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I’m done with self-reflection.

August 7, 2007

Over the past week, I’ve answered questions and completed paperwork for my upcoming CPM (Committee on Preparation for Ministry) meeting in Idaho, finished 8 pages of self-reflection for my CPE final evaluation, and now I’m working on the seminary paperwork for my CPE experience (which is incredibly redundant - and just more self-reflecting). And this [...]

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A Church for Our Time

July 5, 2007

For those of you who may be interested, Covenant Network is putting on a conference at Montreat this summer, August 6-11, “A Church For Our Time”. From the website, the conference is described as follows:
Vibrant congregations in a diverse but united church. That’s what nearly all Presbyterians want – but how do we help make [...]

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Clinical Pastoral Education

May 29, 2007

Today I begin a 10 week program called Clinical Pastoral Education, otherwise known as CPE. One year ago, I was very excited about the experience; I had just completed a Pastoral Care course with Deborah Hunsinger, and I was looking forward to seeing how pastoral care actually worked. Last night I googled “clinical pastoral education” [...]

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Leaving Church: A Review

May 13, 2007

The first Barbara Brown Taylor book I read was The Preaching Life which I instantly fell in love with. Taylor’s way of telling stories and making the text come alive is very engaging. Taylor serves as an Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality here at Columbia, so I was looking forward to hearing her preach while [...]

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Third Annual Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

April 19, 2007

Last weekend was the Third Annual Ultimate Frisbee Tournament for Presbyterian Seminaries. Over one hundred seminarians showed up from Union-PSCE (Richmond), Union-PSCE (Charlotte), Princeton Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary. Each year it continues to become a bigger and bigger event. This is the third year Union-PSCE (Richmond) has [...]

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Presbyterian Outlook article on Mainline Emergent/s Conference

February 9, 2007

There is an article on the Presbyterian Outlook website about the Mainline Emergent/s Conference held at Columbia Theological Seminary. For those who don’t want to register on the Outlook site to get the full article, I’ve uploaded it here as a pdf.
Both pomomusings and presbymergent got plugs in the article, which is great. We are [...]

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Mainline Emergent/s Seminar

February 1, 2007

As you can see from the photo above, today Karen Sloan and I had our seminar, entitled “Practice & Presbyterianism: Emergence as Reformation.” We began the seminar with a word-association activity: we asked everyone to think about what words or phrases came to mind when they thought of 1) Presbyterians, 2) Emergent and 3) Presbyterian [...]

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