Tag Archives: cultural engagement
winter blitz
Our high school students invaded Life Time Fitness, an ice rink, and a bowling alley through the wee hours of the nights a few weeks ago. What better time to engage culture than with a fun recap? Enjoy!
remember the name
He won the U.S. figure skating championship last month, but don’t look for him on the ice in Vancouver**. For that matter, he won’t even be qualified for the 2014 Olympics in Russia. That’s because Nathan Chen is 10 years … Continue reading
walk a mile in your own shoes
Time for some reader participation! Recently our volunteer team spent a day with Katie Edwards, who has coordinated the volunteer team at Saddleback Church in Southern California. She started the morning by having us complete the following exercise, then share … Continue reading
m&m salaries, vitamin powder, & ooey-gooey cake
Today was a marathon of worthwhile but cumulatively exhausting engagement. While we savored a second week of just that little extra sleep before church, once we left the house we weren’t back for more than 12 hours. In middle school … Continue reading
to save a life (movie review)
Two things really let me down when we watched an opening day showing of To Save a Life. The first was that the song by The Fray that I thought had inspired the name of the film was nowhere to … Continue reading
viral color status, decoder rings, and t.m.i.
The majority of women wear bras, and bras come in a number of colors. After yesterday’s widespread (dare I say rampant) Facebook posts declaring bra color yesterday, we are all now aware that women and men are anatomically different. Thanks … Continue reading
coming of age
It’s probably been 20 years since I last watched it, but Amazing Grace and Chuck still made me cry when I watched it this weekend. If you can suspend disbelief enough to “buy” the premise, you find yourself cheering for … Continue reading
bieber fever
[legacy post from innovideo creative blog] Considering I have been hanging out with middle school kids since long before any current ones were born, I have consumed my fair share of ‘tween media. I have watched Zach & Cody (in … Continue reading
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