As I have moved around through small groups and churches with my powerpoint presentation, I have always had to call on friends with video projector connections in order to be able to put them on the “big screen”. Many thanks to those friends!! Now, however, I will no longer have to hassle […]
Ever been in the middle of a Sunday service when somebody’s cell phone went off? (I was in one today!). Apparently some Roman Catholic Churches in Monterrey have been having a lot of trouble with them, so they imported Israeli cell phone jammers! Excerpts from a recent article below…
Seattle Times, 9.21.94
By Chris […]
In response to a reader query on pollution and what is being done about it, I offer this article from the October 29 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. There is a lot out on this topic, but this is the first thing that I had in hand, so we’ll start there.
Research […]
Hello Friends!
Just a quick note to let you know where I am in the process.
-Training: I’m almost all the way through! I have one more set of RUF training before I hopefully head for the field, which will happen in early January (I hope).
-Ordination: You already know if […]
A 50 años de la publicación del primer número de Playboy, ser modelo, cantante, conductora o actriz son papeles intercambiables y distintas facetas de quienes se consideran a sí mismas artistas completas bajo el aura multimediática de la celebridad o la fama. Con el tema de la sexualidad explícita o semiexplícita, calendario, revista, disco, película, […]
An interesting article on the Mexican “blogosphere” in Reforma by Jose Homero…sadly, not really time to do the translation, except for a few quotations.
“In Mexico, blogs are written on average by people under 35 years old, which doesn’t mean that those older but still close to technology or vogue expressions can’t cultivate this ostentatious form. […]
I’m discovering more and more that the UNAM has a better quality of education than I had previously thought - the university consistently comes out ahead in Mexico and does well in the world as well. And getting in is difficult; one friend says that for 60 spots in the art school, there were […]
For years people have climbed up to the top of the “city of the gods” located outside of Mexico City, marvelling at the construction of the “temple of the moon” and the “temple of the sun,” but perhaps never contemplating that some thing or some people might be buried within these monolithic structures. Over […]
Hello Everybody,
I’ve been posting over on the “supporter update,” so check there for recent pics and entries re: ordination. Thanks!
Peter
Yesterday morning I was ordained and commissioned as a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in America to serve as a campus minister at the National Autonomous University of Mexico! More pictures of the service can be found here.