In November I gave a 25-30 minute talk at Off The Map’s annual conference, in a workshop called “Almost an Atheist”. I’ve written about how it went below, including a detailed summary of what I said in the talk. I originally posted the following write-up on Conversation at the Edge. (There are some comments on …
First Baptist Church of Oak Park has a live outdoor nativity one weekend each December. At West’s request, we went to see it this evening. They have five scenes from the nativity story, with real people miming the parts of the main characters and various live animals (a donkey, sheep, llamas and a camel) borrowed …
Ben and West’s school has two orchestras. West is in the 6th grade one and Ben is in the 7th/8th grade one. Both orchestras recently had seating auditions and Ben and West were both selected as concertmaster of their orchestra as a result. Other Ben and West music news: