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Continue reading →: ★ Orthodox Trail Trip Journal – Thursday, Oct 23
Day 4: October 23, 2008 Today was one of the days I was most looking forward to on the trip. We were to visit a number of early Christian sites in the Cappadocia region, a rich group of locations in which early Christians began to live as hermits and later…
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Continue reading →: ★ Orthodox Trail Trip Journal – Wednesday, Oct 22
Day 3: October 22, 2008 Today was a travel day. We rode our bus from Istanbul to Urgup in Cappadocia, a distance of around 800km. We began in our hotel with a time of worship led by Randy White on the topic of pilgrimage using Psalm 84. We discussed the…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-31
6 reasons why my VC funded startup did fail at Stephans Code Monkeyism (tags: web2.0 startups startup software lessons) The ever-extensible Evernote – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (tags: evernote programming) How to Customize Your Site Intelligently with Hooks (tags: wordpress themes design) How to Photograph Natural Looking Portraits (tags:…
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Continue reading →: ★ Orthodox Trail Trip Journal – Tuesday, Oct 21
Day 2: October 21, 2008 For the first time in four days here, I slept through the night but for the 5AM prayer over the speakers. I even slept through my alarm watch, though perhaps it wasn’t set for the right time anyway. When the room phone rang I knew…
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Categories: Faith
★ Call to Simplicity (St. Basil the Great)
Continue reading →: ★ Call to Simplicity (St. Basil the Great)One of the three great figures in Orthodox Christianity is St. Basil the Great (along with St. John Chrysostum and St. Gregory of Nazienza, also called Gregory the Theologian). Basil, born 329CE is known for his unbowed devotion to life with Christ. He forsake a wealthy life, gave what he…
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Continue reading →: ★ Orthodox Trail winding down; now in Athens
Long time no blog. I’m done with the Orthodox Trail class and am now hanging out in a hostel in Athens, exploring the city a bit. I return home on Monday. I’ll write more about the class in the coming days, but for now I’m recuperating, resting and just plain…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-20
Another Update, Pulling Heart Strings | PixelatedImage Blog It’s 6am in Kathmandu, and this is my first day off in 7. The last seven days have been exhausting both physically and emotionally. This project has been tough. The last two days we drove out to Dhading and spoke to kids…
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Categories: Grad School
★ Orthodox Trail – Monday, Oct 20
Continue reading →: ★ Orthodox Trail – Monday, Oct 20Day 1: October 20, 2008 Today I checked out of the Istanbul hostel I’ve been staying at since Saturday and into the class hotel. In the taxi between the two locations, the 1PM Muslim call to prayer happened, and it was fascinating for me to hear their chanted prayers echoing…
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Categories: Grad School
★ Orthodox Trail – Monday, Oct 20
Continue reading →: ★ Orthodox Trail – Monday, Oct 20Today I checked out of my hostel and into the class hotel. In the taxi between the two locations, the 1PM Muslim call to prayer happened, and it was fascinating for me to hear their chanted prayers echoing thoroughout the city. That a new experience for me, and it felt…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-19
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