Mr. Locke’s Classroom

In high school, I wrote about two or three songs each month, mostly melodramatic love songs and nineties-pop songs . In college, I slowed to about two or three songs a year. After college and for most of the last decade, I’m lucky if I write one song every three years. So I’m kind of [...]

I mentioned a new website awhile back, for which I am a contributing editor. As part of the ongoing conversation, several of us are posting stories of our theological journeys as an answer to the question, “Why am I Presbymergent?” (Presbyterian + Emergent = Presbymergent). Anyhow, here’s my article. While you’re there, check out some [...]

Unless you know me very well, you have NO IDEA just how excited I am right now. It’s 1:00 in the morning, February 9th 2007. I’m sitting in my office at church (yes, I know–I should be home now). But here’s the thing. Right now, this moment, I am typing this post on my laptop, [...]

I’ve already posted about one of my favorite new websites, 43things. Today I ran across another “thing” (i.e. goal) that someone else had written, and I added it to my own list: Make my dad proud of me. When my dad passed away in 1998, I spoke (at the memorial service) of how my brothers, [...]

So I’m not doing NaBloPoMo. It’s a great idea, but blogging every day for a month just isn’t realistic for me right now. But today comes a different sort of challenge–one I’m willing to take a stab at. Annie writes in her blog that: There are really big issues that I hide from this blog. [...]

I’m not dead, and I’m not lapsing back into non-blogging status. At least that’s what I’m telling myself. It’s been a busy season, what with plastic flamingoes, kidnapping teenagers, taking Grady to the Zoo, Economics & Invitational at Sunset, and a million meetings. But everyone else I know is just as busy, and some find [...]

So, I guess I took the summer off from blogging. It wasn’t permanent, though–I believe too much in this to let it go permanently. This summer has seen some big changes for me and my family. I’ll try to explain and update somewhat in this post: Goodbye Sunset Yes, it’s official. Most of you probably [...]