Unfortunately, I think I'm now an adult

The Episcopal church has in recent years and months focused more and more on promoting and talking and doing something about reconciliation. Yay! It was a big part of our missionary training, and I doubt anyone can sincerely state that it is unnecessary at this point in history.  In fact, it's been important at every point in history, but with recent media and events coverage I feel, like many, that this could indeed be a big tipping point. So I am very glad that the Episcopal church has been developing and offering resources on reconciliation for years now. There is already a whole host of resources here  with info aplenty on racial reconciliation, a most critical issue in current US society.  Great resources and great people, all of which aid us as individuals, congregations, and dioceses to better educate ourselves to improve the future. But in my time in Brazil, and especially at the GEMN conference back in May, I have been forced to confront the fact that there is ...

Today, I woke up after a full night's rest, but my body doesn't seem to believe that. My hands and arms are week and shaky, and it takes nearly all the strength in them to move my 2 pound laptop.  Not all days are like this, though, and sometimes I wake up hours before my alarm with so much energy that my to-do list gets to die a swift death that day.  I just never know which kind of day it will be until it shows up.  So, today, with the recent release of Finding Dory back in the states (it's not in Brazil yet), I channeled my inner little blue fish to "just keep swimming".  I made it to work to teach.  I got here 30 minutes after the students arrive, but I got here (and I originally designed it so that I wouldn't normally take students until then anyways, in case I ran into trouble getting all the computer units up and going--which has already happened twice, so it was a good plan). This week, I'm working with the older groups to finish a lesson I had o...

Hello there, everyone! I'm sorry that the title is a little bit click-bait-y (where articles on social media use titles that nearly force you to open them to read more, even for really simple things). It is both true and also misleading, but I'm not actually going to directly continue to answer the obvious questions that you might be thinking right away. This is, in part, because the answer required a bit of set up to explain, and, primarily, because I really don't have too many ways to try and keep you interested except to try things like this and hold the resolve until the end. But I will tell you right now, I'll also be putting stuff at the end just so you can't immediately skip down to get an easy answer.  *insert evil laugh here* mwahahahaha Back in the middle of May I was in the midst of my health struggle, but had been asked to attend the Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN) conference held in Ponce, Puerto Rico.  I had accepted many weeks prior, before ...