Recently, while visiting Older Daughter at DePaul University, I had the opportunity to attend Mass at St. Vincent Depaul Parish, on the campus of DePaul University. This experience might also be known as "Protestant Neophyte Visits The Other Side of the Reformation".I arrived about 15 minutes early, and already found the sanctuary of St. Vincent … Continue reading Holding Up the Word, Depaul Community Mass

Younger sister and I have just returned from Chicago for DePaul Family Weekend 2009, otherwise known as Visiting The Gigantic Educational Expenditure. This is the one weekend each fall that family members (read: those actually paying the massive bills to operate this university) can come, visit their kids, dress badly, quietly revel in the middle-aged … Continue reading DePaul Family Weekend 2009

"It wasn't his life goal to be known as a hero, but it has been his life goal to have a close, loving relationship with his daughters, and of course with me. I think that is what he would like his legacy to be".Sully is a hero because of this legacy. Plain and simple. I … Continue reading "Sully" Sullenberger Has Something to Teach Us

We received a last minute invite Saturday night to the Hollywood Bowl. Boy, are we glad we said yes, and never have I been more surprised and touched by a performance than I was by the LA Philharmonic's powerful delivery of Beethoven's 9th symphony. My primary exposure to classical music is rather shallow, as I … Continue reading A Loving Father Must Surely Dwell

"Spend your life inside a boxlooking through stained glassDream about a better day and hope it finds you fast"Lately, I have been reflecting on what much of the evangelical world has taught me over the past 30 years. And I am having my doubts. Not about Jesus, or the fathers of our faith, or the … Continue reading Closer Than We Think?

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This is a song I heard tonight that I love. With Older Daughter off to college, I am musing poetic, and this song says it quite well for me.For my good friends...you know who you are....Grace and Peace for the Journey."But me, yeah me I’m only seeing stars"

It seems as if in the first moment, I was holding a wet, wiggling baby girl in my arms. How in the world was I going to handle the challenge of being a father? What lay ahead? Where was this little one headed in the world?And then, across a blur of days, months, years, there … Continue reading Off to DePaul, These Moments, This Journey

This is one of the better time lapse series I have seen of the Station Fire above La Canada. This is exactly what we have been seeing over the past several days, as we travel the five or so miles north of our home to observe the fire. As of the posting of this, the … Continue reading Station Fire Time Lapse

Its like something in the back of your mind, all the time.The past several days have had an ominous mood around our area. There is a new central topic of conversation - "have you been up to see the fire?" "Do you have friends up there?" "Are they safe, have they been evacuated"? The morning … Continue reading Pyrocumulus Overwhelming