What an active freaking campus!

I've sat in on planning meetings where students were asked for suggestions about how Wesley should change in it's architectural makeover and been reminded that "Wesley does not seek to become an institution unto itself." The administration is very keen in operating a Pastor farm and serving the greater church (which is good, IMHO, although tough to do when so many students live full-time on campus this year).

Some student groups try to make up for that. I would like to shout out to groups like Student Council, Plumb Line, the Tuesday night praise and worship crew, and the Association for Black Seminarians. We had a wonderful open mic event 7 days ago in which all sorts of auditory pleasures were presented, from bluegrass to American folk to spoken word to slam-style poetry, to Korean pop to storytelling to Chinese traditional to instrumental. That night was truly a blessing.

Tonight, love him or struggle to love him, the President gave his state of the union. Ingrid organized a whole discussion session to follow, the questions in which (if not all of the responses) seemed appropriate for a bipartisan setting. It's awesome to go to school with people who have such a passion for understanding things and being involved in stuff. My first year, when there were only 12 of us who lived full-time here, events like these were unheard of.




And ABS is about to begin, for its second year in a row, what will likely be a sweet series of chapels in commemoration of Black History Month, made the more poignant by Coretta Scott King's passage last night.

Again, thank God for so many passionate students and so many opportunities to participate with and learn from each other! Though this school has often offered much by way of frustration, our community of seminarians is irreplaceable.

And aren't other good things on the horizon? I know Plumb Line is planning another March Potato Drop, where the whole campus will try to move 24 tons of potatos to local foodshelves and needy families...