Rants

On Saturday, I was supposed to leave Princeton around 9am to drive down to Greensboro to make it for the Greensboro Grasshoppers minor league baseball game with my friend Andy. So I got up around 8am, packed my stuff was running a few minutes late, but had to swing by the Princeton U-Store Pharmacy to [...]

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On the eve of a big week for me, a week which is causing stress-beyond-what-I’ve-experienced-before (which is a wonderful feeling, really), I want to talk about stupid people.
The first photo is of the whiteboard on my door, and you’ll see the message that I’ve written to an anonymous person who I will be calling a [...]

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“Now THAT must have been…interesting…???” This was the response from the Messianic Jew receptionist this evening when she asked where I’d been traveling. “Oh, I lived in Bethlehem for about 6 weeks.” You should have seen her face. It was a mixture of confusion, concern and utter amazement. “Now THAT must have been…interesting…???” I replied, [...]

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Just a quick update, as I need to grab some dinner (which will consist of shwarma or fallafel - like always). I spent this morning just hanging around the office while they tried to figure out what to do with my job placement. As it turns out, the Bethlehem Peace Center will be having huge [...]

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Arabic. Ugh. I was pretty excited initially that learning Arabic was one of the components of the Palestine Summer Encounter program that I am with. However, as I was sitting through hour 3 of this afternoon’s Arabic class, I was beginning to question my original thoughts. I already had 1 year of Hebrew grammar last [...]

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This is Har Homa, the settlement that is within sight of everywhere in the Bethlehem-area. This settlement is taking away tourism from the Bethlehem-area, as many tourists will actually stay here and just come into Bethlehem for an hour or two, and be guided by Israeli tour-guides, who generally speak about terrorism as they drive [...]

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Thanks to Mark, I ran across this video that I remember watching in my junior high youth group. In fact, it was kind of like the "initiation" video that you watched when you became a member of the junior high group. "Without Reservation" - watch the 30sec trailer here. I remember wearing a Without Reservation [...]

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I live in Alexander Hall on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary. It’s an old building - over 190 years old. A few weeks ago, they installed a new 660lb bronze bell (pictures here) that was cast in Italy. The old bell had a crack in it and couldn’t ring, so this new bell was [...]

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Last week, I had to give a speech in class, and this is what I came up with. It’s entitled “Your God is Too Small.”
Whenever I fly, I try and gage whether or not the person next to me wants to talk. If, after a few basic introductory questions, they keep turning back to their [...]

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