Viewing the International Space Station Tonight
Here in Dubuque we have two good opportunities to view the International Space Station with the naked eye as it passes over the city: tonight and Tuesday. I’ll be taking a dozen or so people up to the top of the Wartburg Tower to get above the light pollution of the city and, hopefully, get [...]
How to Get Started with Cloth Diapers
Jennifer and I decided that we wanted to use cloth diapers for Anneliese, but if you look it up online, there is a huge variety of information. Some of it is contradictory, and all of it is confusing. So after having waded through the morass of hype, spin, misinformation, and genuinely useful stuff, I decided [...]
A Human Point of View
Occasion: Lent 4, Year C Text: 2 Corinthians 5.16-21 This sermon was prepared for an assignment for my Preaching class at Wartburg Theological Seminary and was delivered on 18 March 2009. Several years ago, I had the privilege of participating in a service trip to Charleston, South Carolina. At the time, I was studying computer [...]
Wrapping up month two for Anneliese
Here are a few more pictures of Anneliese to round out our pictures of her second month. Most are general, but there are a few from our seminary’s Coffeehouse, and one very cute one in honor of St. Patrick’s Day!
Internship Assignment
I’m now free to tell the world that Jennifer and I will be spending the next year, probably starting sometime in July, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Sterling, IL. We’re excited – this seems to be a good supervisory match, an interesting congregation, and an opportunity to explore some questions in technology and ministry. [...]
Internship Assignment… soon.
Well, Wednesday was a really big day. Jealaine Marple and I, as co-presidents of the Middler class, spent most of the evening on the festivities that accompanied Internship Assignment Day. We had a small gathering amongst the Middlers with BYObeverages in Fritschel, which was fantastic – it was wonderful to see everyone pulling together and [...]
Synog
In the course of reading my RSS feeds this morning, I did a little research about a church in the Kansas City area. In the search results, another church came up as a “Missouri Synog” congregation. I laughed – synog sounds like snog, which is slang for “making out” – and Googled it. It’s funny [...]
Why Church search engine optimization (SEO) is more important now than ever
Poorly optimized church websites are getting lower search engine rankings when competing with professional “directory” services. A few years ago, when you did a Google search for “church city, state” you would get, by and large, a list of websites and relevant news articles connected to churches in that community. It wasn’t perfect, and sometimes [...]