Off to Chicago/Wheaton

I leave on Monday for a week of meetings in Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Wheaton. I'm looking esp. forward to going to Wheaton since I've never there been before. I've heard it's like the Christian "Mecca" with many churches but very few liquor stores. I can't wait to see the Billy Graham Center and bask in the glory of a colossal edifice dedicated to good ol' St. Billy the Evangelist himself. On the way there and back I'm hoping to "finally" read through Mike Gorman's book on Inhabiting the Cruciform God and Markus Barth on Justification. I hope to see you around the traps if you're there (I'll be the read head guy kneeling in front of the BGC crying out, "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy to gaze upon thee"). Otherwise, I just hope that I don't get kidnapped by any of those right wing rocky mountain militas while I'm in Grand Rapids. Just to be safe, I've got a bumper sticker on my luggage that says, "The UN wants to take your guns away," which means they should let me off if I'm captured.

Back to Zion

I have been in Babylon for too long (i.e. the UK) and now it is time to get back to Zion (i.e. Australia), a land Down Under, where the vegemite flows freely, where they have real mayonnaise, where the roads are wider than footpaths, and I don't have to listen to endless complaints about the Scottish Premier League. Tomorrow I fly to Australia with my eldest daughter to be reunited with my dear wife and youngest daughter. And I can honestly say that after 5 weeks I am convinced that the single parent thing is overrated, especially when you are sick with a virus for a week and still have to cook, clean, do washing, and take child to school. So I'll be off blogging for a few days and look forward to resuming it sometime after my 39 hours of airports and flights. I'm looking forward to pizza with Ben Myers and tennis with my Doktorvater! But most of all, embarcing my Bride and the fruit of my loins.