Dec 062009
- Sunrise was at 10am this morning. Certainly, dawn arrived much earlier, but I still tend to get this feeling that I’m in some sort of ethereal time-warp.
- Yesterday was the winter’s first ski. It felt good. I’m about to head out for the winter’s second ski.
- Healing takes time. One of the advantages of being up here at ACC is that I get to take advantage of professional counseling from the counseling center. So I’ve been going. And I’ve been realizing that some scars still run pretty deep. But I’m also starting to see that maybe the point isn’t to get rid of them but to be shaped by them. After I got a stress fracture in college from overtraining, I had to learn how to run again, how to train again…I couldn’t go about things in the same way and expect to not get hurt again…and even now, when I start training hard, that same spot, the left tibia, sometimes acts up and I have to be careful. Maybe emotional injuries work the same way. Be careful, learn from it, be shaped by it, but never forget it, never act as though it isn’t still a deep part of me.
- My application to Duke’s Ph.D. program is all submitted. Now I get to wait around for a couple of months to see if I’m even in the running.
- N.T. Wright is a phenomenal thinker. I’m getting close to finishing Justification and though it’s a pretty heady book, I’d recommend it to anyone who wants to believe that maybe the message of Jesus is better than even we imagined. I never used to like Paul much…but Wright is convincing me that I need to give him a new, better, more informed reading.
- Somehow I’ve found myself “in charge” of organizing worship at the new The River Covenant Church plant here in Soldotna. Challenging.
- The semester is coming to an end. Ethics was discussing food last week. I ended on this topic because it ties together a lot of the other issues and shows how they are connected. We are going to watch a documentary tomorrow, Food, Inc. I recommend that you all see it. It will change the way that you think about what you eat and it demonstrates those connections to many other ethical issues. Final exams next week.
- I’m headed home in less than two weeks. And by home I mean Portland and then Winthrop for a little while and then back to Portland to fly back here to Alaska. Hope to see many of you then.
get down here. we need to talk books, movies, philosophy, theology and about us being neighbors till we’re old and then die.
http://www.amazon.com/Small-Beautiful-Economics-People-Mattered/dp/0060916303/ref=pd_sim_b_1
old (1973) classic you might enjoy reading-
EF Schumacher: Small is Beautiful
Small Is Beautiful
From Wikipedia,
Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays by British economist E. F. Schumacher. The phrase “Small Is Beautiful” came from a phrase by his teacher Leopold Kohr.[1] It is often used to champion small, appropriate technologies that are believed to empower people more, in contrast with phrases such as “bigger is better”.
First published in 1973, Small Is Beautiful brought Schumacher’s critiques of Western economics to a wider audience during the 1973 energy crisis and emergence of globalization. The Times Literary Supplement ranked Small Is Beautiful among the 100 most influential books published since World War II.[2] A further edition with commentaries was published in 1999.[3]
Small is Beautiful received the prestigious award Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon in 1976.