okay...no big deal Today's just training getting my feet wet. I've already met the people Im working with.
Then why am I so nervous? Oribably because this is my first real (i.e. not having a definitive ending) job

Great Quote

From a grieving widoweer who refuses to leave his wifes body alone in an episode of Six Feet Under to Nate (Peter Krauss's character) when Nate remarks that the widower must have loved his Wife very much

"Love? You don't know anything about love boy. You're too young. Some day a pretty young thing catches your eye and the next thing you know you shit all over yourself in the movie theater and she's the only one who'll help you clean yourself off. That's love"

Things I Learned This Week

1. I don't think I'm going to get Byron Walker to stop calling me Che anytime soon

2. I need to learn better money management

3. Feeling worn out and underapreciatd by children does not neccesarily make it easy to say goodbye to said children

4. Pragmatism may have its virtues

5. Our coffeemaker needs cleaning

6. Six Feet Under is excellent televsion

As a follow up to yesterdays post my old job is now open. Let me know if you need a part time job working with some wonderful children in Harrisburg (translation if you like little pay, inconvinient hours, and verbal abuse from seven year olds let me know and I'll recomend a shrink)

Online Quizes

OK I admit I am adicted to online quizzes.
According to a "Which Theologian are You" quiz I am St. Anselm
According to Beliefnet's "Which Religion are You" quiz I am an Orthodox Quaker
According to Beliefnet's "What Kind of Christian are You" quiz I am a "George H.W. Bush kind of Christian"
According to www.findyourplace.com I should live in Hartford Ct.

For those of you following my employment saga I present my new employer...
www.acorn.org

Neighbor's
After two-thousand years Jesus' extension of the title of neighbor to the wide worls remains some of the most radical political speech. I believe that one of the hallmark's of the gospel is the breaking down of in group/out group status and the dissolution of boundaries. I have been watching alot of TV lately (I'm not proud of it but there are worse vices to have) and in almost every show there is an idea that there are somethings that are okay for those in the in group and somethings that are okay for those in the outgroup. In Rome Ceasar creates a great sin by moving his army across the Rubicon thus moving the means of Rome's conquest from "out there" to within the heart of the empire. Romans would prefer to keep themselves seperate from the dirty work. It is fine for foreigners to live under the watchful eye of the army but not citizens.

This is just one example of a logic that I have seen but in the face of this Jesus proclaims the expansion of familial and neighborly boundaries to include all. It becomes the task of followers of Jesus to treat others with the same diginity and humanity usually reserved for their family and tribe. But have we taken this too far? I mean that geographically. We have taken this thinking to far from our neighbor(hoods).

I think that Christians have allowed the global scope of this thinking to distract from the desire to love our neighbors-the ones that live next door to us.

I need to think more about this but I think I'm on to something important. If you have comments pleases leave them and maybe we can get a discussion going.

The Woolworth Restaurant Review

Harrisburg is currently in the throes of an upswing in the downtown hospitality industry. Second street in Harrisburg is filled with different kinds of bar's and restaurants. As someone who is in favor of urban reinvestment my gut tells me to be in favor of this. I am forced to ask-who is benefitting? Most of the patrons tend to be west shore types: what about the owners and the employees?

In the interest of pursuing these questions my friend Ross has started a website:

www.woolworthreview.com

If you live in the area or are interested in finding out more about Harisburg's downtown life check it out.

I've got a woman
I can't get over the new Kanye West song Golddigger specifically Jamie Foxx's part.

Foxx's part is based off a Ray Charles song which Foxx sings because he played him in a movie. Charles's song (one of the original soul songs) was in turn a knock off of a gospel song.

So, the question is...Whose song is it?