Ben's January

Ben has been a busy one, too!
The semester began with the Spiritual Life Conference, with speaker and author Andy Crouch. From his website's bio:
"Andy is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership." He is also a senior editor at Christianity Today and a really, really nice guy.
You can listen to a few of Andy's Bryan presentations here.
I think it was really fun for Ben to have Andy on campus as Andy's writing relates to some of Ben's special loves: art, creativity and the kingdom of God.

Ben has also been busy recording a few interviews with Bryan chapel guests. The show is a production of the college which airs on the Christian radio station here in Chattanooga. Some segments have not aired yet, so those aren't posted, but here are two that are available:

"Being the Protagonist in Your Story"
Interview with Gary Stratton October 24, 2009

MLK Day Project Interview with Danielle Rebman January 16, 2010

It is a source of happiness for Ben to bring challenging speakers to campus, and we hope that their good work (and Ben's, too) yields good fruit in the lives of the students.
Hope you have fun listening to these!

Henrik's January

Henrik is talking to himself as he falls asleep for his nap. Lately he has been eating A LOT, which must mean he is growing, been pretty independent of his pacifier and started to mimic more of what we say. He doesn't make use of the words he knows all that often, but he'll pull out "da-dee," "baby," "ba" (ball), "seess" (this? please? it's definitly used when he wants something), "buuuh" for peek-a-boo, "ah," "moo," "ooo," and "rahhh" for puppy, cow, owl and lion sounds, respectively. And he is very helpfully signing "please," "all done" and "diaper." It's fun to see him gaining and using language!

Last night as I was folding and putting clothes away he observed that it was really funny to flop clothing onto his head and walk around like that. I tried to get one expressive picture, but got about 50 blurry or super-bright photos of the side of his head instead. Sigh.
Here's something, anyway: