Experiences to remember

 Funny and sadly disjointed experiences from Broad Street so far:
1) (said by a regular attendee at Sunday dinners to two 13-year-old girls visiting with their youth group):
“So tell me, why is it that you two girls are in here eating with us instead of ‘walking the avenue’ on South Street? What I mean is, why [...]

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Weird Day.

Talk about a disjointed day…. I got home today from work in the city and read on the GA website that the GA voted 380-325-3 in favor of deleting G-6.0106b from our Book of Order (psst…. for those of you who aren’t presbyterian, thats the part that means that if you are gay and not [...]

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further thoughts…

Questions that have been on my mind:
 

what is the purpose of church?  is it the same or different from the purpose of Christ?  
what does it mean, I mean, REALLY MEAN, to serve?
what is, really, salvation?  Is it possible to, as many churches would have you believe and do, save other people?  This prospect makes [...]

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What is Communion for?

So this summer has been cruising along at a hellish blast out here in philly at BSM.  I have found myself quite comfortable in this funky church.  The people who work here all care deeply about what it means to live and be a church in Philly, and it definitely shows–in the friendliness of those [...]

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GA 2008

Just a Note:  Watching most of the moderator candidates tonight was not only boring as hell, but completely disheartening.  Yes, I know these people care about the church, and yes I know they care about God, but I certainly wish I heard a bit more about Jesus and a bit more about service and care [...]

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long stretch

kiddies are here for the summer, so I don’t quite have time to post much… I really want to keep track of my thoughts for this experience but I am so tired by the time I have time…
 
Just a recap for the day:
–Overbrook PC is here, and they are great, good kids.
–went to New Jerusalem [...]

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music emotion of the day

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*update on the bike*

my bike has proven herself/himself a militant german nationalist.  On my very first real ride on the bike, s/he threw me off (granted, it was because I was edging her/him over trolley tracks at a precarious angle).   Reminds me of my first ride on good ole Red…. my first time down miguelito he slammed [...]

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new bike!

It’s Saturday, pretty much my only full day off from this internship each week, and A and I decided to explore West Philly in depth.  We might have done this with R and M if they were in town, but they are both up in Boston visiting friends for the week, so we went on [...]

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Summer in Philly

Whew!  So a week’s worth of work has been I-N-T-E-N-S-E… Just for my own sake, to document all that has happened thus far:
I unofficially started here last Saturday, when I dropped by to check out the church and ended up meeting Nick and Peter, two of the other Youth Initiative interns at BSM for the [...]

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