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Pentecost 2026 Family Update

Welcome to our Family Update Letter for 2026! Printable version available at bottom of this post. Click links under “contents”…

13Mar 202613 Mar 2026

A.I. That Doesn’t Steal Your Soul?

It was an hour drive from my friend Tyler’s house to the Ascent Summit this past week. We made that…

15Apr 202522 Apr 2025

Easter picture of Kendall, Jonathan, and Mj outside in front of plants and trees just beginning to bloom.

Easter 2025 Family Update

“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with…

Visiting Gwangju: Mid-term school observation trip report.

1 May 20161 May 2016

My principal gave me mid-terms off to travel to Gwangju, under the condition that I write a report and take pictures about what I saw. So, I thought, let's kill…

What have I been doing?

14 Feb 201614 Feb 2016

Things went dark around here after week 3.5 in orientation. Turns out Fulbright Korea Orientation gets pretty busy. Perhaps, around April, I will post about that. Just in time for…

Fulbright Orientation Week 3: Why I love visiting churches and Why ecclesiology is like surgery.

2 Aug 20154 Aug 2015

I am thankful for those of my ETA friends who consistently put up with my slow learning. Each time we are out, they correct my lacking Korean pronunciation. And, as…

Fulbright Orientation Week 2-2.5: It’s a bit of a blur, really.

29 Jul 20152 Aug 2015

"Orientation, I remember that," an undisclosed renewing Fulbright grantee said to me, wistfully, as remembering childhood in a sort of Richard-Dreyfuss-narrating- Stephen-King's-Stand-by-Me-tone:. The tone indicated a mix of horror and…

Fulbright Orientation Week 1: Yohan learns kimchi is a fact of life, but he does not like it. (He likes everything else swell though).

18 Jul 201518 Jul 2015

Blog post on Monday, July 13th- Saturday, July 17th, 2015. After a long time of travel, all the ETAs (English teaching assistants) arrived at the Incheon airport outside of Seoul, filled out paper…

The sun has set in the west. The sun also rises in the east.

10 Jul 201510 Jul 2015

The sun has set the last time for me over the skies of Ohio and Kentucky. Last night, celebrating at Connor and Georgia's wedding, I looked over the treeline at…

Why Southern Gothic Rules the World -MO Walsh

Second, the basket. The basket on this bike is full of vivid characters. Scholars are quick to call them “grotesques”, as they are often deformed or bigoted or violent but,…

Pentecostal power -Curtis Freeman

17 Jun 201517 Jun 2015

Pentecostal power Members of the Baptist World Alliance and the Pentecostal World Fellowship will meet this coming August in Quito, Ecuador, for a series of ecumenical conversations to begin asking…

Teaching people to be congregational: renarrating voting -Stephen Holmes

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we do church meeting badly… (‘we’ = ‘most British Baptists of whom I am aware’.) A part of the problem is,…

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding… Stephen Holmes

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding is best exemplified by the unusual Baptist use of the word ‘church’. There is no ‘Baptist church’ that is not a…