Ben flew to Boston last weekend with seven other math students from various high schools in the Chicago area to participate in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. My mother helped out as a proctor and was delighted to be involved. Ben did very well on one of his two individual tests: he placed 2nd out...
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I’ve just finished reading In The Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church by Gina Welch. Gina, a secular Jew, goes undercover in Thomas Road Baptist Church (Jerry Falwell’s church) in order to learn what Evangelicals are really like. Gina went undercover because she felt she wouldn’t...
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This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog I’ve been helping with churchrater.com, a website where anyone and everyone can post their rating of any church in the US. This week ChurchRater was featured on Seattle’s King5 news and written about in the Seattle Times. This publicity has brought...
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We drove down to Peoria yesterday to hear Ben play in the IMEA (Illinois Music Educators Association) All State Honors Orchestra concert. In the violin seating auditions Ben placed first and so he was concertmaster – very exciting! He had a couple of solos in Red Cape Tango (based on Superman) by Michael Daugherty...
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This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog Recently the church I used to belong to started an Emergency Clothes Closet. This ministry offers free clothes to people in need in our community. They don’t have to have any connection with the church. I’m excited about this because when...
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This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. Recently I was at the grocery store checking out. I realized I needed to go to the restroom and asked the checkout person if I could leave my cart there and go when she was all finished. A lot of the...
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