Pastor Dan’s Musings June 24, 2011 In June of 2008 I was privileged to participate in a small seminar called Writing and the Pastoral Life, with Eugene Peterson.  It was held at the Collegeville Institute, located on the campus of St. John’s College in rural Collegeville, MN.  There is an active Benedictine Abbey there and we were invited to participate in the community life, including the regular times of worship.  The following is a reflection I wrote later that mon...

Last Monday (my sabbath, and day off), Anne and I went to “Art in the Streets,” a huge exhibit of graffiti and urban art at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in Little Tokyo.  Wow.  It was a fascinating array of the mainly youth-driven street art scene around the country and world.  I learned a lot.  It provoked some rich conversation between Anne and I over what art is really about, the uses and abuses of private or public property, the imposition of one person’s ex...