My Week

I’ve been going crazy. Teaching at Eastern Nazarene College is keeping me up to my eyebrows in class preparation, class time and grading papers. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the worse. I teach 4 hours on Tuesday night, teach a 7:45 am class for freshman at the traditional campus the next morning and then teach another 4 hour class on Wednesday night. The classes on Tues and Wed night are the same, Professional Business Communication, but each one is on a different lesson. So I get mixed up a bit. Plus I am working through a new module I revised for this class. It gets a bit overwhelming.

Mark Driscoll and Pastors’ Wives

Mark is the Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA, an edgy, push-the-envelope, buck-the-trend-create-your-own-trend kind of church. It’s a church that talks openly about some of the great unsaids in the church. Mark is a constant blogger and not known for playing it safe. An example is his recent comments relative to Ted Haggard’s immorality episode.  He wrote:  “It is not uncommon to meet pastors’ wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband’s sin, but she may not be helping him either.”

So what are people talking about?

Each day I try to go to the New York Times and survey their listing of the top ten most emailed articles. This gives me some idea of what friends want their friends to read. Also the site that hosts my blog (www.wordpress.com) has a listing of the fastest growing blogs. If I have time I might survey a few to see what’s on people’s minds.