Anyone who thinks that my wife’s life playing the grandmother role for a month with her beloved grandchildren in Maine is an idyllic romance needs to read her latest post. From 600 miles away, it’s hysterically funny, though I’m not so sure she’s quite ready to laugh yet!
Karyn also posted some pictures yesterday of Jireh’s [...]

This is as good a summary as I’ve seen anywhere of what we do know about the Dharma Initiative. Also included is a digest of the most oft-discussed theories about the island.
HT: Brother John in C’ville

Sacred Journey reader Nate recently posted on his blog this hysterical idea for a “Christianized” version of a popular TV show:
FOUND - an action/drama series where a group of missionaries stumble upon a group of people stranded on a mysterious tropical island in the plane wreck of adriatic flight 714. the missionaries would then be [...]

In the “Theology of Acts & Paul” class Karyn and I are taking from Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., one of the arguments put forth is for the cessation of all new revelation since the end of the “apostolic age.” Dr. Gaffin argues that the time of the apostles was a unique period in redemptive [...]

Went with classmate Peter last night to see the Philadelphia Film Festival showing of Danielson: A Family Movie (or Make a Joyful Noise HERE). This feature-length documentary takes the viewer behind the scenes of indie-rock anomaly The Danielson Famile. I say “anomaly” because Danielson seems almost hopelessly trapped between two worlds, and neither world knows [...]

In the midst of all the fever over the announced Messianic coming of the Da Vinci Code movie next month, it is not surprising that the media are scrambling for anything DVCish they can throw at an uneducated and willing-to-believe-anything-but-Christianity public. I received an email from National Geographic this week trumpeting the discovery of [...]

Anyone on my MySpace friends list will be receiving the following notice today:
Dear Friends:
As of today I am officially cancelling my MySpace account. I originally set this up because some of my musician friends were on here. Of course, it didn’t take long for other people, some whom I know well and others less so [...]

Our fifth grandchild was born last evening up in Greenville, Maine. Karyn has all the details here, with more pictures posted here. Proud and happy parents are our younger daughter Hannah and her husband Philip, with Eva and Seamus rounding out the sibling gang for the Waldens.
The birth happened at 6:32 p.m. as I sat [...]

Grandchild V may be on the way!

…is chief correspondent Karyn Traphagen. I did the red-eye express this past weekend, taking Karyn up to our daughter Hannah’s home in Greenville, Maine. Karyn will be up there for the month of April to assist with the birth of Traphagen Grandchild V. We drove through the night Friday night to Saturday morning (best way [...]