Today's word is peace. This is something I have been searching for this semester. The joy and ease of the past year is gone. I knew seminary would be hard, but apart from a few short periods (like finals) I have been delighted to be here. I have not experienced the breaking down of beliefs that so many of my colleagues and friends experienced in their own seminary journey. Mine has been one of confirmation and discovery. I have found that although I am at an evan...

Today's word for the Advent Photo-A-Day challenge is "bound." There are lots of different expressions of this word, but the image that came immediately to my mind was my niece, Sarah. Sarah jumps all the time. Anytime she's happy or excited (which is a lot) she jumps. I usually try to take the pictures on the day of the word, but it just wasn't right to talk about bounding without her! This photo is fom last summer. For more on Sarah's jumping, check out my sist...

It's time for another Rethink Church photo challenge! Today's word is "Go." After spending a few restful days in the mountains with my seminary family, it's definitely "go time." I have a paper on "Ancient Future Faith" due this evening, a presentation on Julian of Norwich's "Revelations of Divine Love" tomorrow, and two other papers due this week before finals commence next week. I'm also scheduled to work an extra day this week so I'm feeling a bit crunched. I ...

My friend, Emiko, is wanting to do more hiking this summer. I'm more than happy to help her in this pursuit! We set up an event on Facebook with some of our friends and called it the "Epic Hike." However, it's still a little too early for a lot of the more extreme hikes, and we thought it might be best to take it a little easier. We also had some time constraints with a few of the people who wanted to come. We chose the Burning Bear Trail, East Entry (TR 601), ...

My friend, Nicholas, sent out an invite through our Denver Seminary outdoor group page that he was heading up to Mt. Evans to do some biking. Let me just say, people are not good about responding on the page. It's like pulling teeth to get people to commit or even respond. I made plans to join him but to hike around while he biked. Since I didn't know where he planned to start his ride, I did not really plan on a trail which is unlike me. I haven't had much time...