St. Patrick is renowned and revered for bringing Christianity to Ireland. He was a missionary and, for his efforts, is now the patron saint of Ireland. Every March 17 we celebrate St. Patrick and his mission by wearing green, eating corned beef and listening to the Dropkick Murphys. Also by getting severely inebriated.Read more
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A few months ago I began my first foray into the world of Harry Potter. Until this past January, I had never read any of the books or seen any of the movies. In order to get rid of that glaring blind spot in my nerdiness, I decided to read and blog through Harry PotterRead more
I love my job. There are some weeks, like this week, where I find myself in back-to-back-to-back meetings. I don’t love meetings but, for the most part, I do love my job and everything that I get to do. I get to hang out with students. I get to go to camp and on missionRead more
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I hadn’t played video games for a couple weeks. That couple weeks has now stretched into over a month. I haven’t killed any dragons in Skyrim. I haven’t gone online to help my team lose in Modern Warfare 3. I haven’t started playing Mass Effect 2 soRead more
As I mentioned yesterday, this past weekend our church’s high school and junior high groups joined the groups from four other churches for winter camp. It was a great weekend to get away and spend some time in the snowless mountains. Throughout the weekend students were challenged to accept that they have been chosen byRead more
I’ve been looking forward to John Carter as long I’ve known it was in production. I’ve never read any of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels but I have perused some of the comics. In the story, John Carter, a former confederate soldier, is transported to Mars where his augmented strength and agility put him at theRead more