Catching up...

Trying to catch up a little bit after being gone last week...
There are several projects I am working on.

First, I just finished a small writing project that publisher David C. Cook asked me to contribute to - a graduation book asking contributors to answer in 300 words or less what advice, encouragement or suggestions you would give to a graduating senior. It was a fun project and a very creative idea. I guess Natasha Bedingfield will be contributing to it as well...

Secondly, I am reading a manuscript of a friend who wrote a book on street-level contextual theology. He asked for an endorsement statement for the back cover and I need to get that off soon...

Third, I start another seminary class this week - a six week intensive - called "Film, Theology and Culture." I'm really looking forward to it. Now before you start thinking this is a cake class, the class requires us to watch three movies a week, reading two books and diving a presentation each week. I've been told the class is great, but when you are done with the class you won't want to watch another film for six months!

I also want to catch up on my reading, which includes mostly magazines. I have a stack next to me of magazines, newspapers and periodicals that I need to catch up on. In our digital age, I guess I am a dinosaur of sorts, but I love good magazines that are culturally sensitive. I enjoy reading a wide variety of them because I find that I learn so much about the world and find that I can learn a lot from them and study them in an attempt to connect them to the truth of the gospel in a dot-to-dot format (just as he did in Acts 17, I am sure that Paul would be quoting today's poets from magazines and periodicals and podcasts and film and television shows).
Here are the ones on the stack on the table in the living room that I need to get through this week:

-USAToday
-Atlantic Monthly
-Sojourners
-The Week
-Newsweek
-Fast Company
-Biblical Archaeology Review
-Entertainment Weekly
-RELEVANT Magazine
-Wonder Time
-ESPN The Magaine
-Paste Magazine

Comments

[Carl Adams]

You may want to add the issue of DJ that just came out to that list - it's on "Thinking Biblically About Politics" and what I've read so far is awesome!