Entries Tagged as 'Kentucky'

January 28, 2008

To My Friends in Kentucky

Looking for something to do this Fat Tuesday? Want to see how many Pancakes you can eat in one setting?
Come to Junction City UMC on Feb. 5 for our Fat Tuesday Pancake Supper. You’ll enjoy it! It’s free (donations will be taken at the door)  and all proceeds benefit our new youth group. The fun [...]

December 13, 2007

The Three Week Break

Well, today I finished my final paper for the semester ending my first semester here in seminary officially. It’s strange to think that I am now 12 hours into my seminary career and I can burst my own bubble to think I still have 84 more hours to go for the MDiv.
After writing more papers [...]

November 25, 2007

Break’s Over … Time to Get Back to Work

I have a question.
Why is it every time you take some time off, you need a vacation from that time off? For the past eight days, I’ve been in West Virginia visiting family. The first few days were spent dealing with the loss of my aunt - whom I’ve realized lately how proud she was [...]

November 19, 2007

Learning While On Vacation and Why the Wilmore Police Know Me By Name

I’ve learned a big lesson about seminary education thus far these past few days. Even though I’m out of Kentucky Mayberry, away from the classrooms, the lectures, the exegesis papers, there is still opportunity for learning what it means to be a minister and serve others in the name of our Lord. This became clear [...]

November 11, 2007

Registration Blues

One of the joys that I forgot about regarding my undergraduate education was registering for courses. About the start of the fourth quarter of a given semester, course catalogs would become as heavily read as the textbooks, and students began to ask more questions about perspective professors than the materials in their current classes.
Such is [...]

November 6, 2007

Why I am Not Voting Today

This should come as a shock to some of my friends, mostly those who know me from my days in the realm of journalism and public policy, but I’m not voting today. It’s Election Day here in Kentucky and I am not voting. It’s not that I don’t value my right to vote, instead it’s [...]

October 27, 2007

Loving Celebrities

In the midsts of a break from reading The Story of Christianity and watching college football, I found an interesting story on Yahoo. The headline read “Kentucky church to write letters of support to Brittney Spears.”
Here is a snippet from the article:
“If she were your next-door neighbor in the same situation without the money and [...]