I figured we owe our readership a bit of a text update as to our lives over the last few weeks. Pictures only suffice to a point. The fact that Seth has been battling a spring flu, complete with malaise, fever, chest cold, - has only compounded the lax management set I seem to have adopted lately. Tua and Bug have fared well thoughout all of this. Tua has inherited her mother's immune system and tolerates even the worst of sicknesses with no more than a wink of acknowledgement.
Two weeks ago, Brandon Bergey (of Bethany Birches fame) and I took a journey to the Bronx for the two day DeepShift conference hosted by the Latino Pastoral Action Committee. Brian McLaren (A Generous Orthodoxy, A New Kind of Christian) was the headliner. The conference title took its name from Brian's latest book. It was a challenging weekend on many fronts. Perhaps due mostly to the fact that the physical location was geographically close to New England, yet so far removed from my very homogenous, very white, very reserved circle of activity here in Vermont. I was thrilled (and at the same time) humbled to be worshiping with such a diverse crowd. We had the chance to meet with missional groups from Boston, Montreal and Philly. I also met some very intense believers working with some very interesting ideas in the realm of missional dialogue. Samir Selmanovic of FaithHouse- Manhattan and Jay Bakker of Revolution Church were just a few of the folks I got to share some time with.
For the record, we did not sleep too much. We crashed on Renee Glick's living room floor in Brooklyn for a couple hours, after a 2am roof-top dinner of some incredible Thai.
Two weeks ago, Brandon Bergey (of Bethany Birches fame) and I took a journey to the Bronx for the two day DeepShift conference hosted by the Latino Pastoral Action Committee. Brian McLaren (A Generous Orthodoxy, A New Kind of Christian) was the headliner. The conference title took its name from Brian's latest book. It was a challenging weekend on many fronts. Perhaps due mostly to the fact that the physical location was geographically close to New England, yet so far removed from my very homogenous, very white, very reserved circle of activity here in Vermont. I was thrilled (and at the same time) humbled to be worshiping with such a diverse crowd. We had the chance to meet with missional groups from Boston, Montreal and Philly. I also met some very intense believers working with some very interesting ideas in the realm of missional dialogue. Samir Selmanovic of FaithHouse- Manhattan and Jay Bakker of Revolution Church were just a few of the folks I got to share some time with.
For the record, we did not sleep too much. We crashed on Renee Glick's living room floor in Brooklyn for a couple hours, after a 2am roof-top dinner of some incredible Thai.
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