Archive for December, 2006

Liveblogging from Urbana #3

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Friday at Urbana was a full day.  The morning started with plenary sessions for the students.  At 12:30 the “exhibitors hall” opened up and students began streaming in once again.
One of the more important parts of Urbana are seminars held during the afternoons.  I participated in a seminar yesterday called “Around the World” which was [...]

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Liveblogging from Urbana #2

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Today was the first full day of Urbana 2006.  The hotel we are staying in is quite a long distance from the Edward Jones Stadium.  Even so, our hotel was full this morning with college students meeting together to pray, study the Word and fellowship.  There were many seminars and small group activities throughout the [...]

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Liveblogging from Urbana

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

I arrived at Urbana (er… St. Louis) yesterday for the kickoff of this, the largest missions event in the US.  Every three years Intervarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) organizes this gathering.  The first session I attended was for “exhibitors” such as the organization I work for.  Jim Tebbe is the man charged with leading the Urbana [...]

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Urbana

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

This year is an Urbana year - although Urbana won’t be held in its usual “Urbana, IL” location. This year it is in St. Louis and we will be live blogging the event right here! It all starts on Wednesday, the 27th.

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Another Dawkins Article

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Our friends at Digg have posted yet another Dawkin’s link which has quickly risen to the top of the dung heap.  I read through a number of posts and surveyed the usual anti-religious sentiments of a number of the posters, but noticed that there are some real questions as well.
I would like to point out [...]

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Lazarus, Mary, and Martha

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I am reading a book titled “Lazarus, Mary, and Martha,” by Philip F. Esler and Ronald Piper.  Philip and I are related only in that we are both humans and therefore have common ancestors - I don’t know him and and I don’t know how we would be related.  In any case, John 11 is [...]

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