You can hire us, if you’d like…
January 15, 2008
Sarah and I have both been given permission to send out our Personal Information Forms (PIF) and so we’ve created websites that have some information about us (Adam and Sarah). You can go there and learn what types of jobs I’m interested in, as well as Sarah. If you hear of anything, please pass these [...]
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Let the Craziness of the Call Process Begin
December 6, 2007
Right now, 3.00pm EST, I am in an interview. And the craziness of the call process begins.
Granted, it’s a crazy time for all seniors at Princeton Seminary. Especially if you’re PC(USA). My presbytery has been very helpful in allowing me to begin circulating my PIF (Personal Information Form) but I know some people whose presbyteries [...]
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One Less Hoop to Jump Through
August 25, 2007
Today marked one less hoop to jump through, hopefully. The Church Polity Ordination Exam was today, and it was the last of 4 (Church Polity, Theology, Worship & Sacraments, and Exegesis) ordination exams PC(USA)ers have to take - and pass - in order to get ordained. I say hopefully because I thought this exam was [...]
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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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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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Revisiting the Essential Tenets and Reformed Distinctives
November 21, 2005
If you’re Presbyterian, you may have heard about San Diego Presbytery’s “Essential Tenets and Reformed Distinctives” document. You can download it here. I blogged about it over a year and a half ago here. It’s something that is coming up more and more, and it’s interesting to see other Presbyteries pick up this document, and [...]
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Emergent Convention: Ordination Musings
May 20, 2004
Good stuff is happening with Emergent. Good theology is being done & will be done. With Tony Jones being at Princeton and some of the things that are going to be happening there in the next few years, things are exciting. I resonate (yah, I’ll go ahead and use that word) with what is happening [...]
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I’m On My Way
February 24, 2004
I should mention that I am not in this photo - this is just an image I found on Google
I had my interview with Kendall Presbytery’s Committee on Preparation for Ministry (CPM) and as of February 24th, 2004, I am enrolled as an Inquirer. Interview today was good. They asked some questions about my choice [...]
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