Remember the discussion we had about my vacation a few months back? Well, ultimately I decided to accept the invitation to Minnesota. On Saturday I’m flying off to stay with Dash, and hang out with Dwight and Troy. The weekend after that I’m going to go to Chicago and crash with Jennifer, and also see Tripp preach. I will return to Los Angeles, and the blog, on July 27.
In the mean time, I’ve had to deal with a million and one things that need taking care of before I go, so I don’t really have the mental bandwidth to spare for substantive posts. So this will be my last for another two weeks. But I will note a few provocative posts that seem relevant to last week’s discussion of problematic fantasy: Hugo on shooting games and football; via Mainstream Baptist, a father explains Why I’m Raising Violent 4-Year-Olds; and Amy Welborn and the gang discuss the theology of The Wizard of Oz.
See you later. And for a few of you, see you soon.
I am looking forward to meeting you! It should be a good time.
BTW…it looks like I ain’t preaching. You will hear Jane preach instead. I am sorry. The joy of having more than one pastor at a congregation is that when things get nuts, you can ask someone else to preach. Things have gotten nuts.
Comment by Tripp — July 18, 2005 @ 4:20 pm
I almost feel like apologizing for the generally favorable writeup I gave
Minnesota back when you were choosing a place to go; and for advising you
not to do DC in summer.You’d hardly be warmer there than up here. Hopefully
the qualities of your hosts make up for the sudden arrival of the Tropics
at latitudes like 45 North. Having looked at their blogs, I suspect t’is
so.
Comment by BobW — July 21, 2005 @ 7:51 pm