I’m in a hotel in Smithfield, North Carolina, getting ready to lead a workshop at their Growing Together event. I met with the other conference and presbytery leaders leaders for dinner last night.

A snapshot:

I met an 84-year-old woman, whose mother was a suffragist. She told us stories about what women had to go through for the vote. Many of them went on hunger strikes, then they would be jailed and force-fed.

I saw a former professor after ten years. He’s talking about Fundamentalism tomorrow.

I met a woman who lives in a retirement community with scholars and pastors. That evening, she was going back to hear her neighbor, Rosemary Radford Ruether, give a lecture on “Feminism and Sarah Palin.” I couldn’t figure out if I would really love living in a place like that or not. What would you say?

I met Christian educators who love their jobs, and who take them very seriously. And, as a pastor, I have to say, I have such a deep and abiding respect for Christian Educators who are called there. You know… when it’s not a stop on their way to something “better”?

Also, there are a couple of other things are coming up…. In our neck of the woods, I’ll be leading a Transforming Congregations seminar next Saturday (September 27) with David Williams, at Trinity Church in Bethesda. It will run from 9:00 a.m. to noon. You don’t need to sign up, just show up.

And I don’t think it’s too late to sign up for the LEARN online course at Andover Newton. It will be running from September 29 through October 24. 9/22 edit. I was wrong about the Andover Newton course. Registration ended on the 19th.

I think that’s it. I’ll check back later.

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