Officium novum
June 26th, 2007 | After lots of searching, interviewing, breath-holding, and praying, I am proud to announce that earlier tonight I accepted a job as the Director of Youth and Family Ministries at St. Mark Lutheran Church in West Des Moines, Iowa!
The church is less than a mile from my house, which is a pretty good deal. Actually, the whole thing is a good deal. The people with whom I interviewed are excited for this new opportunity and I am very excited myself. I start the second week of July.
Thank you to all who were actively involved in praying for me the last few months. I can’t express how much it means to me.
W00t.
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- Relevant Magazine interviews Dick Staub, author of The Culturally Savvy Christian. “Hans Rookmaaker said Jesus didn’t come to make us Christian, Jesus came to make us ‘fully human’. Those who are fully human have no appetite for the crap pumped out in culture and the Christian subculture.” I just ordered his book and look forward to reading it. 06/23/2007
- Des Moines is #1 in the nation in frozen pizza consumption. Readers who know me personally will find this to be particularly fitting. 06/19/2007
- Gears of War: The new Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft. “Would you shell out $500 for Office 2010 Pro if Google Apps were roughly comparable, available online and offline, and completely free? Probably not.” 06/19/2007
Pan’s Labyrinth
Not sure where I heard of this movie, but I finally got the opportunity to watch it this afternoon. The Apple trailer website for the film describes Pan’s Labyrinth1 as “a gothic fairytale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. Harnessing the formal characteristics of classic folklore to a 20th Century landscape, [Guillermo] del Toro delivers a timeless tale of good and evil, bravery and sacrifice, love and loss.”
After the movie, my brother and I talked about it and decided to both give it a rating out of ten. My initial reaction was eight, but the more I think about it the more I want to give it a nine or a ten. The movie is basically a fairy tale for adults, which is partly what makes the movie so moving. It’s a fairy tale that feels real. The next part might have some spoilers, so if you want to see the movie (and you should), maybe you should hold off reading the rest until you’ve seen it. If you’ve (a) already seen it or (b) don’t care, just click below.
- The original Spanish title is El laberinto del fauno, which literally translates as “The Labyrinth of the Faun”. ↩
- A Brief History of Economic Time. “The average middle-class American might have a smaller measured income than the European monarchs of the Middle Ages, but I suspect that Tudor King Henry VIII would have traded half his kingdom for modern plumbing, a lifetime supply of antibiotics and access to the Internet.” (via kottke) 06/15/2007
- Steve Carell’s new movie, Evan Almighty, is the first “major motion picture comedy” to have a zero carbon footprint. To achieve this, all crew members were given bicycles by director Tom Shadyac to reduce car usage, and all the landscaping, lumber, windows and other reusable materials were donated to Habitat for Humanity. Related: What is a carbon footprint? and The Carbon Footprint of a Burger. 06/13/2007
- Just a sec, God. I’m not sure if Dan Piraro is a Christian or not, but one could base an entire sermon series on this single comic. 06/10/2007
- “Corporate comedian” Don McMillan shows us how not to use PowerPoint. Some of my former college peers could have used his advice. 06/07/2007
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