A couple of weeks ago I read a blog post over on ShellyPalmer.com entitled, “What if your dream job does’t exist anymore?” It was all about a several conversations that Shelly had with people trying to break into the news media business – looking for dream jobs that either no longer exist, or will soon…
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
Oh Communion, Communion, Where Art Thou?
I don’t want to make lite of the whole Swine Flu thing. The CDC can’t be blamed for handling the situation the way that they are. It’s not their fault that a potentially dangerous strain of flu has sprung up at the same time news media seems to be dropping like flies. The papers and…
The Weakest Link
One of the great things about our region is that our regional pastor (rough translation, “A Bishop with severly limited powers, given that they herd cats for a living”) is big on spiritual development. When I moved to the area he was starting up a mentoring program, akin to a spiritual confessor, called “Pastor to…
Go Ahead, Pass Your Notes
One of the most interesting things going on during the BibleTech09 conference was the undercurrent of conversation going via twitter during the sessions. It was at that time that I thought Twitter could be an incredible tool for encouraging conversation during a learning event like a class or seminar. I’m already hoping to encourage people…
A Legend Passes
I’m Philly, born and bred – it’s my cultural identity. A huge part of that cultural core of my being is a passion about sports – Philadelphia is simply the greatest sports town in the nation. End of story. Every generation of Philadelphians has a set of characters which drew them into the sports lore…
Talking Genesis with Peter Enns
I’m in a familiar place, McInnis Auditorium, getting ready for Peter Enns to start his talk on Genesis and the Ancient Near East context. I already had to help him get his mac working with his laptop, glad I was hear (he traded me an autograph for it). And here we go, Dwight Peterson is…
