2.03.2009

Back to school, back to school!

Image of arctic melting courtsey of dailymail.co.uk


Greetings,

Today was the first day of classes of my last semester of seminary! It was a great day; library work, a great chapel service, a preaching course, a few friends over for dinner, and a class called The Future of Creation. I think it's going to be a wonderful couple of months.

It's getting a little late, so I won't make this too long.

My
Creative Everyday 2009 activity for late last night/this morning is a project outline for a set of 4 greeting cards. I am still working on the images but I think I have figured out what could be written on the outsides. It would be called the "Greetings for the Dumped" set. I'm not sure there is a really a market for this kind of greeting card set, but it is kind of fun to create them. Almost everyone has been dumped at some point, right? And have you noticed that it's always so hard to know what to say to someone who has been dumped? So, maybe a silly yet truthful card could help. I'll wait to reveal them until I have the designs done.

I know it isn't Friday, but I have a few recommendations to share:

Music: Maxwell - LOVE HIM!

Podcasts:
Dinner Party Download (can't get enough of this; so fabulous)
Books on the Nightstand

Tonight at the Future of Creation class, one of the speakers (who is a scientist at Northwestern) spoke about the relationships between ecology, evolution, faith, and theology. It was SO exciting to hear a person building bridges between religion and science; it's really encouraging. But some of the statistics she shared about global climate change, the arctic, and deforestation were REALLY alarming. While these are issues many people (at least in the United States) still have the option of ignoring, I don't believe this will be the case for too much longer. We are on the brink of major environmental drama; hopefully people across the globe will be awakened to the types of significant changes that need to take place in our daily lives in order to reverse the damage we are pouring out upon our earth.

2 comments:

  1. Hey, doing some work for class and came across what looks like a great hymn about the environment. Its called "Touch the Earth Lightly" by Shirley Erena Murray and can be found in the New Century Hymnal.

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  2. Hey, doing some work for class and came across what looks like a great hymn about the environment. Its called "Touch the Earth Lightly" by Shirley Erena Murray and can be found in the New Century Hymnal.

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