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Friday, March 28, 2003 posted by Rick 1:50 PM link |
Basement Tapes. Why stop when you're on a roll? (And when the weeks ahead look extremely busy?) Last night we recorded the sixteenth in the series, the topic of the conversation being Women. Just in case you're curious: we're in favor of them. |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2003 posted by Rick 12:29 PM link |
Breakfast report. This morning's men's breakfast was held at Chicken Little in Abingdon, a favorite with the locals. One charming touch: if you want coffee, you are responsible for grabbing a cup and filling it. And quite often one customer or another will go back for more, then walk the pot around refilling the cups of other folks in the place. One problem: no more than four people at a table, a bit of a headache when nine show up. In attendance: ministry intern Joshua, resident student Jeremy, center director R.C., assistant center director Jonathan, senior pastor Laurence, and regular guys Wayne, Chad, and Rick. Later on we were joined by John Austin, here with his family for a visit. Topics included: making baseball attractive to women; changing the world through position papers; basements; designing a family herald; if you can find a lake, is it truly hidden?; .facial hair; Florida jail cells; William F. Buckley's Firing Line; too young for the baby boom, too old for the baby bust; Mendota; one last cold snap. |
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posted by Rick 12:12 PM link |
Tuesday Night Bible Study. Last night was the wrap party for the latest in the series, the study on beauty. We always follow a study with a Q&A on the topic; for awhile they were held at a coffee shop in downtown Bristol, but the last couple have taken place in the Sprouls living room. The Q&A itself lasted an hour or so, followed by much socializing among the participants. Next up: the doctrine of man, beginning April 22. |
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003 posted by Rick 10:03 AM link |
Basement Tapes. Last night we recorded the fifteenth in the series, this one on Providence. Most likely it and #14 will be released at the same time, within the next few days. Watch this space and the DHP website for availability. For the last couple of Basement Tapes we've experimented with different way of recording the sound. None of them were successful, so with #15 we return to the inexpensive, impromptu recording technique we started with. It sounded pretty good as we were in the midst of it. Possible upcoming topics include Women, and Rage. |
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Thursday, March 20, 2003 posted by Rick 3:51 PM link |
Festschrift. The biggest surprise at the recent Ligonier National Conference in Orlando was the presentation of a festschrift to Dr. R.C. Sproul Sr. It is customary to honor a scholar who has had an illustrious career with such a book, a collection of essays written in his honor by friends and former students. This one is called After Darkness, Light and was edited by friend, former student, and son Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr. It contains ten essays, five on the five points of Calvinism and five on the five solas of the Reformation. The book was as much a surprise to Dr. Sproul as to the rest of us; over the course of fourteen months of development it was a closely guarded secret. It was presented just before Dr. Sproul's first talk of the conference, when R.C. was scheduled to introduce him. The introduction turned out to be a heartfelt and quite moving tribute to his father—nobody does heartfelt better than R.C., and nobody comes close in their ability to do sustained heartfelt without verging off into sentimentality or incoherence (thirty minutes!)—with four of the contributors on stage to back him up. It was a moving tribute, and a fitting one. The word is that all 1400 copies of the book available at the conference were sold out by Friday evening. But we're glad to say that Draught Horse Press now has copies in stock, and we encourage you to check out the more detailed description of the book here. |
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posted by Rick 8:55 AM link |
Clarification. Yesterday's Breakfast Report mentioned this topic: "good terrorist targets (how about the impending gathering of 150,000 NASCAR fans this weekend in Bristol?)". A correspondent points out that it is easy to read this as a sarcastic recommendation from us to the terrorists on who they might target. My apologies for not writing this item more carefully. What we were actually discussing was the fact that, even though we had lulled ourselves into complacency, thinking that we in Bristol were deep enough in flyover country to be off the radar screens of the terrorists, we suddenly realized that the single largest gathering of folks anywhere in this country happens twice a year at the Bristol Motor Speedway. In other words, we realized that there is a good terrorist target right in our own backyard. |
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003 posted by Rick 9:45 AM link |
Breakfast report. Did you expect to ever see another one of these? Bonnie's is currently a hollow shell; they seem to be taking their own sweet time about turning it into a pile of rubble. You could have driven by it on your way to breakfast at Perkins this morning, or you could have just stayed on the interstate, since Perkins is located at an E-Z-off, E-Z-on corner. In Perkins' favor, the food was hot and the air was smoke-free. Next week we'll be in Abingdon at Chicken Little (too local to have its own website). In attendance this morning: R.C., Laurence, Rick, Kevin, and resident student Jeremy; faithful attender Jonathan had to miss his second week in a row, being on a trip back to Ohio to visit relatives. Topics included: topics for the next two Basement Tapes ("Women" and "Providence"), the Ligonier conference in Orlando last week, good terrorist targets (how about the impending gathering of 150,000 NASCAR fans this weekend in Bristol?), taking out a cranky rooster with a .22, rivers, the cover of Band on the Run, whether Mick Jagger can act (and whether Keith Richard could look any scarier), habits of the high-tech heart, the conversations about HSC that we don't hear, taking bets on when we'll run out of things to say, the week that John and Yoko hosted the Mike Douglas show, the new ecumenism, trailer parks. Oh, and world peace, of course. But not one Simpsons reference that the webmaster can recall. |