I'm writing in the living room of a rental house inhabited this week with four friends from seminary. We are reading (a little) theology together, and swapping stories from 30 years ago. Grateful to have carved out the time together, and nervous about rising COVID levels. One of us had it back in the fall. One of our mothers has it now. One not-yet-vaccinated young niece has it. All of our congregations are wrestling with new waves of policy-making related to the Delta variant. It's good to be with old friends in the same trenches. We've known each other a long time. We've supported one another through dating woes, marriages, church calls and transitions, illness, death, parenting, and care-taking of parents as they age and their memories fade. In between chewing on chapters from Barth and handfuls of pistachios, we are telling tales from our twenties when we were young, and as nerdy as a group of seminarians can be. I'll be honest, I remember fewer stories than my friends do. While that worries me a little (
Forgetting the capital of Paraguay
Forgetting the capital of Paraguay
Forgetting the capital of Paraguay
I'm writing in the living room of a rental house inhabited this week with four friends from seminary. We are reading (a little) theology together, and swapping stories from 30 years ago. Grateful to have carved out the time together, and nervous about rising COVID levels. One of us had it back in the fall. One of our mothers has it now. One not-yet-vaccinated young niece has it. All of our congregations are wrestling with new waves of policy-making related to the Delta variant. It's good to be with old friends in the same trenches. We've known each other a long time. We've supported one another through dating woes, marriages, church calls and transitions, illness, death, parenting, and care-taking of parents as they age and their memories fade. In between chewing on chapters from Barth and handfuls of pistachios, we are telling tales from our twenties when we were young, and as nerdy as a group of seminarians can be. I'll be honest, I remember fewer stories than my friends do. While that worries me a little (