Conveniently located off the ring road that encircles San José’s urban chaos and snuggled up next to the landmark Law Faculty (Facultad de Derecho) of the University of Costa Rica, the Hotel Ave del Paraíso is a jewel that is easily overlooked. The Adamski family has converted a sprawling old home with its attending jumble [...]
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a jewel: San José’s Hotel Ave del Paraíso
Posted in two hippos make an island, tagged Costa Rica, Latin America, travel on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t miss it: San José, Costa Rica’s Hotel Grano de Oro
Posted in two hippos make an island, tagged Costa Rica, Latin America, travel on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some years back, while living in Costa Rica, I found the Hotel Grano de Oro a fine place to take guests for a nice dinner. During a recent business trip, I decided to stay for a night at this constantly improving establishment, whose only deficit is its rather seedy location on the east side of [...]
a great travel option: Grupo Taca for air travel in Latin America
Posted in two hippos make an island, tagged Latin America, travel on September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When the principal airline of the tiny Central American country of El Salvador some years ago began acquiring and organizing the assets of carriers from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Peru, it was a boon for air travelers in the region. I have flown Grupo Taca (as the airline is now known) many times with [...]
ravished: Song of Solomon 4-6
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Song of Solomon, textures on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The uninhibited poet of Song of Solomon paints the portrait of two lovers drunk with love. Each longs for the body, the company, the love of the other. Each describes in lavish detail the beauty of love’s object. Both are driven to behavior bordering on the outlandish by the surge of love’s private frenzy. You [...]
heroic love: 1 Corinthians 16
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Corinthians, textures on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For partisans of language practice that erases the gendered aspects of the way people speak and write, the apostle Paul’s vocabulary as he wraps up his first letter to the Corinthians could be embarrassing. Be courageous, he tells them. His word is andrizesthe, a verb associated with the noun aner, for ‘man/male’. A less circumspect [...]
not quite a (black) pearl: Bryan Adams, ’18 til I Die’
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bryan Adams’ 1996 compilation of greatest hits is all about cheap thrills. With lyrics like `The only thing that looks good on me … is you’, `I just wanna’ be … your underwear’, you don’t buy this album after a hard think about whether to spend your nine bucks on this or on, say, that [...]
bound for glory: 1 Corinthians 15
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Corinthians, textures on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Biblical realism is not given to flights of fancy. The biblical understanding of the human creature is tenaciously realistic about both his frailty and his enormous capacity for evil. The first chapters of the biblical anthology tell us that man and woman are glorious creatures, saturated with qualities that affiliate them more with the Creator [...]
D.Min. or PhD.: that is the question …
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, tagged theological education on September 4, 2008 | 17 Comments »
In the last two decades, the wily old PhD has been challenged by a feisty upstart, the Doctor of Ministry. High-achieving individuals dedicated to some field of theology, biblical studies, or pastoral ministry often hop back and forth between the two, wondering which better fits their needs and life situation. First, some terminology. Let’s begin [...]
Learn to fly fish in Seattle: Emerald Water Anglers
Posted in turning the fly, tagged fly fishing on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Seattle-based Emerald Water Anglers can fit a one- or two-day fly fishing school into your business trip to Seattle. Better yet, they’ll tailor the pace and content to your level. They can do this because their classes max out at four students and usually only enroll one or two at a time. I capped a [...]
all for building up: 1 Corinthians 14
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Corinthians, textures on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is common to imagine that Paul’s discussion with the Corinthians in this place is about spiritual gifts or even about glossolalia, the phenomenon of speaking in an unknown language. It is not. Paul’s intense concern to help the Corinthian church get the thing right is about selfishness over against a concern for the integrity [...]
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