PresbyMEME
Meme courtesy of Shawn, originally started by Bruce.
- in about 25 words each (OK, I can’t do that, but I think I average to about 25), answer the following five questions;
- tag five presbyterian bloggers and send them a note to let them know they were tagged;
- be sure to link or send a trackback to this post;
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1. What is your earliest memory of being distinctly Presbyterian?
This is a close one. Being elected as YAD to the Synod of the Northeast from Palisades Presbytery as a high school junior, followed 3 weeks later by ordination as a deacon.
The YAD election was really cool. Youth from all over the presbytery (one per church participating – about 15-20 total) did a lock-in at a church in the middle of the presbytery. The youth did a program to determine (today we’d say “discern”) what skills and attitude are important for a representative to General Assembly or Synod. Then in the morning we would elect 4 youth to represent the presbytery – a GA YAD, a GA alternate, a Synod YAD, a Synod alternate.
This is also one of the saddest memories of my life. The girl who was elected alternate to GA died in a car/train accident about 4 weeks later – one day before I planned to call her and ask her out on a date.
2. On what issue/question should the PC(USA) spend LESS energy and time?
Attempting to draw a line around the acceptable beliefs (“essential tenets”). This is religion, not a government computer system. Gray is acceptable – black and white is not required.
3. On what issue/question should the PC(USA) spend MORE energy and time?
Evangelism and mission in the local community. We are dwindling in numbers because we think the “church” is a building. The church is people. We need to create, execute, and most importantly promote positive messages and actions in our communities. We need to stop defining who is and isn’t a club member and start being radically inclusive. It’s time to stop being a club and start being a movement again.
4. If you could have the PC(USA) focus on one passage of scripture for an entire year, what would it be?
Matthew 7:1-5. Time to stop concentrating on others’ beliefs and start concentrating on our own – and how well we live up to them.
5. If the PC(USA) were an animal what would it be and why?
A starving dog, who has started eating other dogs held captive with it in order to survive.
Extra Credit: Jesus shows up at General Assembly this year, what does he say to the Presbyterian Church (USA)?
“You seem to have a lot of food here; I guess I don’t need to do the loaves and fishes bit. How do you plan to share your abundance with those who need it?”
I tag: Cheesehead in Paradise, Search the Sea, St. Casserole, some amusing blog pun, and Unresolved Tensions.
Five Odd Facts About Me
I’ve self-tagged, after reading Russell’s (no relation) post about “Five odd facts that most people wouldn’t know”.
My audience is so diverse that I’ll have to lean heavily on the “most people” phrase in that request – somebody who reads this could know any of these. So, without further ado, here are 5 Odd Facts that most people don’t know about me.
- I was born in St. Louis, MO. Most people associate me with New Jersey, which makes perfect sense to me since I live here now and have done so since I was 9 years old (even attending college at Rutgers). However, I was born in St. Louis and grew up in St. Louis and University City, MO. Dad moved us east for a job. I still consider myself a midwesterner at heart, though the truth is that I’ve likely been too contaminated by NJ to fit in out there.
- I’ve never successfully passed a swimming test that involved the crawl stroke. For some reason, I can’t do the breathing the way they want me to do it. That meant that as a Middle School-age kid, I wasn’t able to pass the test that let me into the deep end (I had to wait until I turned 13 and was automatically eligible). Ditto for the canoe test at camp – I had to wait until I was a staff member.
- In high school I was an accomplished percussionist. I was in Jr. High All-Region Orchestra, Sr. High All-Region Band and Orchestra, and Sr. High All-State Band (twice) and Orchestra (once). This was playing either tympani or traps (anything that isn’t tympani, snare, or keyboard-based instruments like xylophone). Somewhere along the way I decided that I didn’t like the competitive nature of music – some of the other musicians were real jerks using their bad attitude towards others as “competitive edge”. In college I did one year in marching band and two in pep band. I ended up leaving the marching band because I took one of my wrong turns – pledging the band fraternity. I quit shortly before I was made a full member and after that nobody from the frat would talk to me ever (I tried to start conversations and was met with stony silence, every time. Mature, eh?). I haven’t played seriously since, though I have recently indicated to the church choir that I’d be happy to help out if they needed a percussion instrument played some time.
- That scratch on the hood of the blue 1984 Oldsmobile Firenza station wagon was caused when a friend that I was teaching to drive accidentally drove up a tree. I’m not sure I’ve ever told Mom and Dad about this one. I was going into my sophomore year in college, and my parents and sister (brother was staying at college that summer, I think) went on vacation. I stayed home to work. That weekend, my friend from high school Jessica Meyerson (now a very well-educated academic, I think) came to stay in the otherwise empty house with me (she was living with her father in Manhattan). She never got her driver’s license at age 17, and I offered to teach her. We took the car up to the quiet residential area of Englewood Cliffs and I set out to teach her. At one point, she turned too far to the right and headed for the curb. I shouted “BRAKE” and she hit the gas harder. She ended up driving up and over a 10 foot evergreen tree, pushing it to the ground. Luckily the back wheels stayed on the ground. We backed the car off the tree. The only damage was a scratch on the hood, lots of pine needles all over the place, and a smushed tree. The lesson was over. Jessica left her NYC address and phone and ended up paying just about her entire summer wages to replace the tree. We drove home and spent the rest of the afternoon washing and vacuuming the car. My uncle worked at the auto plant where the car was built, so lucky for me he had sent some touch up paint. I’m pretty sure that Mom and Dad don’t even know that she stayed for the weekend! (Oh shush. Nothing happened.)
- I am at least 1/4 Swedish. My maternal grandmother is 100% Swedish and she was a first-generation Swedish-American. I remember that every time she came to visit for a major holiday, she brought Vort Limpa bread for all of us. Apparently, the blond blue-eyed genes didn’t come along for the ride.
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