The following is the transcript of the speech I gave at the commissioning ceremony for the cohorts graduating from the Eastern University School of Leadership and Development on June 12, 2009. WHAT ABOUT US? A commissioning speech containing humor, theology, economics inside jokes, and all the wisdom a twenty six year old dude can possibly [...]
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What About Us?
June 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Cambodia, Education, Faith & Spirituality, Travel
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Buechner on Christmas.
December 24th, 2008 · Comments Off · Faith & Spirituality
Christmas itself is by grace. It could never have survived our own blindness and depredations otherwise. It could never have happened otherwise. Perhaps it is the very wildness and strangeness of the grace that has led us to try to tame it. We have tried to make it habitable. We have roofed it in and [...]