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About Me

Somehow life has currently dropped me into the role of a United Methodist Pastor in Seattle... Amazing!Ravenna UMC

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I'm a Husband, Father, and Grandpa... Even MORE Amazing!

I think Spirituality has a place and fills a tremendous void within our culture in the 21st century.

I think narrow-mindedness is a disease to which relationship and encounter with those we fear is the cure.

I think amazing answers are there to be found when we start thinking outside the box.

I think that whenever you draw a circle to exclude someone, for WHATEVER reason, the Jesus I have encountered stands on the outside of that circle...

My Interests

I love to travel, and have placed my feet on every continent except Antartica (so far!)

Our New Year's Eve in Sydney Australia.

Missions work in Kenya brought me into the ministry. Here's an example of one of the special places that really touched my heart:

Kaaga Children's Home

I'd like to meet:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a Dream"

These words still stir my soul.
They challenge me to name as evil and work to end
racial intolerance, economic injustice, hatred and bigotry.
All the actions that diminish another.

Must our children and grandchildren live in such a world?
We can change it!

It's time for our society to truly embrace the ideals that
we proclaim, and turn them into reality for ALL God's children!

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Music:

My tastes in music are totally eclectic! I sing here and there and mess around with an electric guitar.

Movies:

Also eclectic. The Matrix, K-Pax, Don Juan de Marco, Scent of a Woman, The Green Mile, Sirens, almost anything with either Dustin Hoffman or Johnny Depp in it...

Television:

I've gotten addicted to Battlestar Galactica. But I have to admit that I kinda like the Cylons!!! :-{

It snowed so much here recently that we might get caught up on our TV watching...

Got the DVD set of HBO's "ROME" for Christmas and now I'm hooked. It's fascinating because my geneology contains a direct descendent who is a child of Marcus Antonius and Octavia - that makes Octavian (soon to be Caesar Agustus an UNCLE!)

Now how do I deal with being directly related to those responsible for so much misery and oppression in the world???

Books:

I have a ton of books stacked up to read. Recent books that peaked my interest: Brian McLaren's "A New Kind of Christian," Black Elk Speaks, Marcus Borg's writings.

"Singled Out" night on the town at University Bookstore on the Ave in Seattle!

Heroes:

Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Caesar Chavez, Jesus of Nazareth, Gustav Gutierrez, Anthony de Mello, The Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandella

My Wife, Love of my Life!

I Love You Nona...

My Blog

Skiing

You might have read about the 40 mph windstorm and intense rainstorm that caused new power outages here in Seattle today. Well, my duaghter Shawna, her husband Grant, and I decided that th...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:53:00 PST

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I've just spent the evening on Youtube and Google watching videos from speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and they've left me asking myself, "What happened to the ideals of justice and equali...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:50:00 PST

The Dead Sea Scrolls

We had the opportunity to go and see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Pacific Science Center last Saturday. If you are in Seattle and get an opportunity to go, it's well worth your ...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:57:00 PST

Signs of Hope

Thursday evening religious leaders and members from two Jewish temples, a Moslem Mosque, plus United Methodist, Lutheran, and Episcopalian Denominations all gathered together at Assumption C...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:10:00 PST

When Religion Leads to Violence

Here in Seattle we have recently experienced the ugly face of religious intolerance as someone broke into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and shot six women, killing one of them. H...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:50:00 PST

A long road ahead...

Today the Washington Supreme Court in a split decision decided to uphold our state legislature's law banning same-sex marriages. Their arguement was that the state has the right to encourag...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:16:00 PST

"Birth of Christ" in Dublin

Hey! We just had our second rehearsal this evening for the upcoming performance of "The Birth of Christ" a cantata written by our friend Andrew Miller. It's going to be performed in Dublin,...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:08:00 PST

It's All Relative!

We just got home from a family reunion to find our kitchen flooded from a broken water pipe in the upstairs bathroom. So two days have been spent trying to put things back together again. Then, ...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:04:00 PST

Life's too short...

Hey! I just joined MySpace today thanks to the prodding of my daughter... It's beautiful and sunny around Seattle today, summer has just arrived, and life's way too short for holding on t...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:07:00 PST