Oktoberfest of the Mind

What do October and German have in common? It is not what you are probably thinking, at least for me. It does involve consuming large quantities of something which will most likely make my head spin. No, I’m not talking about long tables littered with beer and...

Class Notes from Trinity and Mission

These are my class notes from Trinity and Mission with Dr. Gary Simpson. I took the class at Luther Seminary this Spring 2012. I took the notes on my iPad using Noteshelf. From noteshelf I uploaded them to my dropbox account, then on my desktop uploaded them to my...

A Palate Expander for My Brain

When my son was younger he had a palate expander cemented into the roof of his mouth. Every day we had to insert a metal rod into the fly wheel at the center of the contraption and crank on it. This motion pushed the butterfly wing extensions on each side of the...

A Reader’s Response to Pleroma

One of the few negative side effects of my new journey into the PhD program is that I will have to place my fiction writing on hold. I generally don’t think about it, but every once in a while I get a little stabbing pain of longing when I receive a message like...

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