Entries from December 2007

Moving on…

Date December 18, 2007

Today I joined some 160+ ministers and elder commissioners, and some visitors, at a called meeting of Heartland Presbytery. What follows is a long post about what transpired today, and my blogging about some of the events elsewhere under the moniker ‘kairos’. If you aren’t interested, or don’t have much patience for the inter-church squabbles [...]

Greetings Grinnell College Class of 1997….

Date December 12, 2007

My college class newsletter arrived yesterday, where various members of the Grinnell College Class of 1997 write in with updates about their life, and I was pleased to see that I was included:
Chad Herring is associate pastor of Southminster Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. He and his wife, Brook Bailey ‘98 had infant twin [...]

Blog Recommendation: Not that Calvin…

Date December 11, 2007

My friend Landon is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Liberty, Missouri. He’s a good guy, with lots of blogging ambition. He has a new venture, called Not That Calvin, that you might enjoy.

What makes a good blogroll…

Date December 11, 2007

Blogrolls are lists of other blogs on a particular subject. I’ve started expanding my blogrolls, and you might find some of the links of interest. Because of the number, for now they’re available through the ‘links’ tab above.
I plan a few categories:

decently and in order, for those blogging that claim affiliation with the presbyterian church [...]

Blogging, politics, social commentary, faithful witness…

Date December 10, 2007

An early new-year’s resolution: I am going to start tending to Roeminations to make it a better blog. Don’t worry; I won’t wait until January to get started.
What makes for a good blog? This has long been an interesting question to me, but I think it is some combination of regular attention, original insight or [...]