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God Is Our Refuge And Strength

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea, though the waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. (Psalm 46: 1-3 NRSV)

Today was the first day of classes here at Eden Theological Seminary. This will be my final semester in St. Louis. We’ll be heading back to Oregon in mid-December. Over the next four months I’ll be taking Christian Ethics, The Book of Isaiah, Jesus Around the World, and Congregational Formation. I’m also working as an assistant for The Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, the seminary’s Allen and Dottie Miller Professor of Mission and Peace, and still serving as a licensed minister at St. John UCC. It will be a busy final semester.

The excitement of preparing to finish seminary is tempered by the events of the last week. What a weird world we live in. So many people who died could have been saved. What happens now to New Orleans? Where to do the people go? Psalm 46 brings me some comfort during days like this and I hope it will to you as well.

Over the last week I’ve been republishing a lot of material from church bodies and relief groups involved in the post-Katrina relief efforts. Sometimes republishing primary documents is a lot more valuable that offering my own thoughts on a subject. I’ll keep doing that as events warrant. We need to know what is happening from people on the ground and to learn what we can do to prevent something like this from happening again.

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