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Friday, March 29, 2013

Good Friday Breakfast and Liturgy (Photos)

Today we had the largest crowd ever at our annual Good Friday breakfast and liturgy. Unfortunately, it was also the smallest living space we've been in for several years, so it was kind of a tight fit—but we made it work! We had 17 total, all coming from different circles of our lives: some from seminary, some from church, some friends from a local intentional community. Many of them were strangers to one another before eating together this morning.

Good Friday is perhaps the one point on the Christian calendar that does not look forwards or backwards, but just is. Following his crucifixion, death, and being placed in the tomb, Jesus—presumably—is just a corpse. Dead, rotting flesh. The gravity of this holy day rests on those caught in a static aftermath of a failed movement. What is a disciple to do now? With our messiah dead and buried, we now only have each other. So Good Friday is a time of communal interdependence. For this very reason, no one should ever be alone on this day.

Anyway, here's some pictures.

Monday, March 11, 2013

The Holy Land Then And Now: A Comparison

Shortly after midnight on February 27, 1974, my great-grandfather left Lambert St. Louis International Airport with a church group on a flight bound for Tel Aviv, Israel. He spent the next week touring the Holy Land, stopping at popular pilgrimage sites and taking photographs along the way.

38 years later, in May 2012, Alyssa and I made that same journey from Kansas City. We spent about a week visiting many of the same sites my Pa visited, though I did not realize it at the time. Several months after we returned back to the States, my mom presented me with a flash drive for Christmas, loaded with—among many other family treasures—the entire collection of my great-grandfather's slides from Israel, converted into digital photos. Below are several photos that Alyssa and I took that later turned out to match the pictures taken by Roger Connelly between Feb. 27 and March 5, 1974.

Church of the Annunciation, 1974

Church of the Annunciation, 2012

Inside the Church of the Annunciation, 1974

Inside the Church of the Annunciation, 2012

Church of the Nativity, 1974

Church of the Nativity, 2012

Church of the Nativity, 1974

Church of the Nativity, 2012

Marble Manger at the Church of the Nativity, 1974

Marble manger at the Church of the Nativity, 2012

Megiddo, 1974 (Note the date palm tree at the center of the photo)

Megiddo, 2012 (Same date palm, left foreground)

Entrance to Capernaum, 1974

Entrance to Capernaum, 2012

Capernaum capital piece, 1974

Same Capernaum capital piece, 2012

Capernaum synagogue, 1974

Capernaum synagogue, 2012

On Lake Gennesaret, 1974

On Lake Gennesaret, 2012 (I don't think this is exactly the same view)

On Lake Gennesaret, 1974

On Lake Gennesaret, 2012

Entrance to Gethsemane, 1974

Entrance to Gethsemane, 2012

Near the Pool of Bethesda, 1974 (Note column in right foreground)

Near the Pool of Bethesda, 2012

The Pool of Bethesda, 2012 (Different angle)

The "Upper Room," 1974

The "Upper Room," 2012

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Some long-awaited pics from around the ol' homestead.

Alyssa and I have spent the last few weeks getting settled into our new house, our new community, and our new church. Here are some photos from our house.