April 2009
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Kim's Photography Exhibit
We had Kim’s students’ photography exhibit last weekend. The three weeks leading up to it were hectic for Kim; full of selecting the photos, mounting the 254 photos, getting her students to name them, and writing a presentation she was to give at the cultural center an hour before the exhibit. Our apartment became a FEMA zone cluttered with cutting boards, foam board scraps, and...
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How To Pray Like A Shadow →
How did I work Obama’s teleprompter, Twitter, Britney Spears, and the Psalms into a blog about prayer? Funny you should ask….
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Will The Real Charlie Brown Please Stand Up?
This will probably be one of the more random updates I’ve written. It’s 10:30 on Sunday night though and we’re exhausted so I’ll do my best. I preached in church this morning. I began by telling them the story about our engagement out here and the cross on the hill to show them how God worked to bring us out here. Then I preached on the parable of the prodigal sons in...
Some good questions to ask ourselves. →
“It began in 1973 and it will never end. A speck of my life will be lived before I die. And an eternity will be lived after that day. Do we believe that?
On your first day on the other side of the grave, do you think you’ll look back on this life and be flooded with gratitude for hours spent watching episodes of American Idol and Lost? Will you wish you’d done more of that? Do you think...
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Here We Are Now, Entertain Us →
On the left, a rock icon. On the right, a pastor.
I know what you’re thinking, “Wait, that’s not Bono!” (Actually, that’s probably not what you’re thinking, but he’s the rock star most people would associate with a conversation about faith.) I recently wrote a short blog for Conversant comparing Kurt Cobain, the singer of Nirvana, and Pastor Mark...
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A Piggyback Commute
Kim and I have been working on a short TV series for the largest cable news station in M*ngolia, Eagle TV - think of it like the Fox News of M*ngolia. The show will be similar to a TV news magazine like Dateline/48 Hours and we will be telling stories that are, truly, foreign to us from America and the West. We will tell the stories of a Christian minority. It would be hard for me to...
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Email & RSS Link Update
A quick note for those of you who read this site in an RSS reader - and for those of you who would like to! :) I’ve updated the RSS link to:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/NickBogardus
For those of you who don’t have an RSS reader, I’ve also added an email subcription link so you can get updates from the site sent straight to your email. It’s so easy! Just click here:
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Kim Bogardus - fashion photography. →
My wife just did a post about one of her photography classes. Check it out to see them in action!
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The Most Famous Thing Ever Ever Ever
Sorry it’s been so long. I’ve been teaching a lot the last couple weeks so my free time has been taken up with preparation. Things are back to normal though so I’ll try to be more diligent with writing here. To lead off, a funny story. Former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Meyers wrote an article for Vanity Fair in January claiming that President Obama is the “Most...