disaster
I just watched friends make an emergency landing at LAX
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005Brian Meza’s parents were on the jetBlue plane that made an emergency landing at LAX 10 minutes ago. He called us to pray a few minutes before, a very tense few minutes, especially when the sparks started flying. Thank God for their safety and the pilot’s skills.
Thank God for dad’s collar
Sunday, September 11th, 2005Chris Monroe (a/k/a Paradoxology or Desert Pastor) has an interesting post about clerical collars that reminded me of my father. In the summer of 2000, a pastor friend suggested that dad buy a clerical collar for emergencies. This might not seem noteworthy, except that my father is an inner city pastor that one national magazine [...]
9/11
Sunday, September 11th, 2005Frankly, I’m confused. Four years ago, September 11th changed my life. I never made it to work that day and officially resigned my career as an attorney one week later. I never expected that September 10th would be my last day practicing law, nor could I have possibly imagined what the next fifteen months of [...]
I’ve known her since she was 5
Friday, June 10th, 2005Lorreal (aka Lori) Torres, recipient of the 2005 Xpress Writing Award and Xcel board member since January, is one of my heroes. (Photo courtesy of Mike Mowery. Check out more pictures of Lori and the rest of the cast of Xpress’ Life in Translation here and here.) At seventeen, Lori is finishing her junior year [...]
Rudy’s now a supremo blogger
Friday, January 7th, 2005Rudy Carrasco, as dedicated a blogger as any at Urban Onramps and the pressure point for me to join the blogosphere, was asked by Christianity Today to assemble a tsunami relief blog this week. Congratulations, Rudy!