Homecoming -- Not Like That!

Friends,
I hope you all got my many invitations to homecoming weekend. I've put a lot of work into planning a spectacular weekend for you.

This year we're honoring graduates of our theater program. Did you know SPU has a highly rated theater program? If not, all the more reason to rediscover SPU this year at homecoming. I like to think I rediscover SPU everyday.

Did you see the picture of the Stage Door? I took that myself. I feel like it really captures the spirit of theater at SPU. There's a door! Get it? If not, I'll explain it in my convocation on homecoming weekend. You'll want to be sure not to miss it.

Scott and Pam are some of the best graduates we've ever had. They took that run down peep show house and gave it new life. And every once in a while you can see some nudity. They call it artistic expression, but we all know it's nudity. (Right, 6th Hill?)

Homecoming weekend is full of activities for all our alumni.
Do you remember going to classes at SPU? It's kind of a big deal. Besides the Orangemen and Gwinn food it's pretty much why we are here. Well you can re live the memories on Friday January 21 during Class Visitation Day! Normally we charge hundreds of dollars for this stuff, but now you get it at no cost to you! Except the money you already paid us.

Whose best memories of SPU don't include the bookstore? Well we wouldn't invite you back to SPU to not visit the book store! Of course not! The bookstore will be open for "Bookstore Browsing" 11am - 6pm. Don't you dare go in there any earlier or later. Or on a different day, because I got you the hook up!

Finally if you're a nerd who got involved in missions at SPU you can go to church and receive your honors/nostalgia while the rest of us are cheering on the basketball team. Losers! Tailgating never dies!

P-Dawg Out!

Graduation nearing...

Graduation is close at hand and many high school students are getting ready to graduate and thinking about their transition into SPU, and our own SPU seniors are anticipating their transition into the real world, I am jonesing to get out of here. There's been a lot of chapels and convocations this year, and I'm spent, but then I look at the schedule and I'm like "pfft! a dozen more chapels? whatever steely-boy. Save some God-stuff for next year, eh?"
I'm gonna go catch a movie.

Sincerely,
Papa E

P.S. Have you tried Jones soda lately? I'd forgotten how delicious it was. And it's got real cane sugar in it now, so it's healthly, basically it's like a vegetable.

Happy April Fool's Day! Ya'll!

I just saw "Knowing" with Nick Cage.
The Cageinator. The Cagester. Cage the Rage.
Cage-o-rama.
Quite possibly God's gift to women. Well, his second gift to women. The first gift to all the ladies was Sixth Ashton. What?! What?! Whoop it up, my B'oyz!
Knowing was pretty fantastic. And it had a good message.
The world IS ENDING. But unlike Nick Cage, WE don't know when it will end.
We don't trust in rocks. We trust in the Bible.
God's Google Maps for how to get to Heaven.

So as we enter the final days of LENT. Remember that these are just traditions. Traditions filled with powerful messages. But ultimately just a symbol, an emblem of what has happened and the promise of what will happen.

Use Easter to invite your friends to Church. Why not go see KNOWING with Nick Cage sometime this week? It will start a conversation, and raise questions, all of which will be answered on EASTER when the horns blare and the choir sings, and Ol' Mark Abbott comes out swinging and a thumping the Lord's promises down to us.

Just remember, the world WILL END, but Nick Cage WILL NOT be there to Save you.

Popular Photography

I am using my time off this summer to continue my education.
Too often during the school year we, as administrators and faculty, get caught up in teaching so much that we rarely get to expand our own minds.
So I dedicated some time this summer to take an art class: popular photography.
Photography is an ancient art that is coming back in vogue in our fast paced text messaging culture.
Composition is the first skill to learn. How to recognize or create a subject that is engaging.
Well, I think I have a natual knack for this subject and I think you will too. It shows off the amny rich layers each of us has thanks to our creator.
I call it, "Me at My Heart"

Crammin' then scrammin'

Dude! Only two weeks left before Finals!
I better get cracking on beating this game:







I keep losing Moses in the river. Hmrpf.
This game is too hard. Maybe Steeley-boy is right: it is not a good replacement for Ufoundations.

A New Slogan?

This should tell you how awesome I am:
SPU's signature commitment to "know and understand what is going on in the world."

The precious faculty came up with this, the dumbest catch phrase EVER!

Why do they even try to compete?

"Engaging the Culture, Changing the World" will live on FOREVER!!!!!!!!

I am a genius.

Just look below at my genius. Gawk, you pleebs. You flanges of academia.













My slogan is just so good....
.......I deserve a sandwich.
Tasty, Tasty, double bacon, double cheese, footlong meatball sub.
I'm gonna hop in my car right now and drive down to the C-Store.

Engaging the Culture: How To

How are students engaging the world?