posts from another era
I haven't been posting recently and even missed Photo Friday, but I've been incredibly busy finishing up the semester early so that I could...
Go to Thailand. I'm leading a mission trip with some undergrads at North Park to visit some ministries in Thailand in hopes to establish long term relationships. Please be praying for us during the next week and a half; we get back the 24th of May. I'll let you know how it went when I get back and all my photos I plan on taking.
Having lived on both sides of the Mason Dixon line, I often get the "Oh, you're from Oklahoma? I can hear your accent." Most of the time I think people are pretending to hear something that's not there. My voice tends to fluctuate depending on who I hang out with. My Minnesotan friends have blessed me with a longer "o." And my Chicagoan friends have given me a longer "a." But being from Oklahoma, I still call my mom "Momma."
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Your Result: The Midland
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. |
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| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz |
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Chris on the way back from Umin appreciation dinner. You may remember another picture I put up of him. And the seats at Wrigley.
Every time I walk into Border's I pause at the new books tables, meandering them to see if there's anything worth giving a further look. One of the books that's been continually catching my eye is Dick Staub's The Culturally Savvy Christian, but since I have no time to get the reading done that's required for class, I'm not quite ready to pick up this one. So I was pleased to find that The Resurgence had interviewed Staub.
In these two videos he talks about culture's need for icons and its love affair, torrid or otherwise, with Jesus.
I stumbled upon this:
Jason, a friend who's a missionary in Brazil, found an art project Icaro Doria, a Brazilian, has done to make social statements about each country. Click on them to read the guide.
