hello folks. like some others, i grew up catholic, but never felt right learning that stuff. went off to college and promptly labeled myself ‘agnostic’ until about 5 years ago when i decided that i was actually atheist. the term just had negative connotations that i wasn’t ready to accept and agnostic seemed safe. in any regard, my whole family promptly followed along. this is a hard role to accept in west Michigan as many of you know. for example, my 5 year old son was at his little day camp the other day and another kid mentioned god. my son told the kid that there is no god. the other kid said that there is a god and then my son laughed at the kid for being funny (this is how the story was told to me). my kids are going to get me into trouble. heh. but i do tell them to just not talk about religion with other people and to tell folks that their faith is private. unfortunately, 5 year old kids are probably too young to be that responsible. ah well.
i teach at GVSU and am starting my 8th year here. i believe i had Rick Barnes in class previously if it’s the same Rick Barnes (he posted above in July). hey Rick. i won’t be able to make Wednesday night functions for a while as i have a tennis league on Wed. evenings this summer. perhaps in the fall. but, i do plan to try and make a Tuesday morning coffee chat, so i hope to see some of you there. cheers!
