It’s Advent, and there are only a couple of weeks before Christmas break. Personally, I couldn’t be happier about that, and not just because this means I get to leave classes behind for a couple weeks soon. Well, maybe leave them behind is not the proper phrase; post-break midterms are such lovely little things, aren’t…
Category: Theological Reflection
A Different Kind of Trip
It’s that time of year again on the PTS campus when World Mission Initiative is recruiting students and others for the spring mission trips. As they gather together the last minute stragglers (I’m one), I can’t help but reflect on what it is that makes these trips different. I had been on mission trips before coming…
Finding Your Inner “Duck”
I am going to go out on a limb and reveal something that just might put me at risk, being a new person here and all. But here goes. I love the duck. There – I said it. I love the duck. As I write this, a very large yellow duck is docked at…