the swifts, the swifts

it sort of looks like i'm taking this blog over. someone stop me please.

in the mean time, why don't you all in the North come down and have a picnic and watch the swifts fly into the chimney at Chapman School.

it's really a most amazing sight.

here's some more information.

we've got till the end of the month.

quotes::notes

here are a few quotes from the Hauerwas lecture that have been singing to me...

• one of the crucial issues here is how we learn to be dependent on one another. we must learn to confess that as a hospitable people, we need one another because we are dependent on one another. the last thing that the church wants is a bunch of autonomous, free individuals. we want people who know how to express authentic need, because that creates community.
• the church is a family into which children are brought and received. it is only within that context that it makes sense for the church to say, "we are always ready to receive children. we are always ready to receive children."
• the issue is how we as a christian community can live in positive affirmation of the kind of hospitality that will be a witness to the society we live in. that will open up a discourse that otherwise would be impossible.