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Posts Tagged: journey
July 18, 2009
Hollywood
The Internet is truly a remarkable invention. I was searching for an old friend I knew when I was 19-21 years old and living the fast life in Hollywood, CA. I found him! This guy was my best friend and partner in crime (literally) when I was living out west. We lived so fast. It is a miracle that I’m not dead or caged up in LA County Prison. We were drug addicts, drug dealers, and street urchins. Our friends were the pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and wannabe superstars, musicians and artists. Read more…
December 24, 2006
My Years at Transylvania Bible School (1994 – 1998)
I began my Christian journey at a small independent, nonprofit and interdenominational school called Transylvania Bible School. Transylvania was nestled comfortably in the tranquil woods of a small Western Pennsylvania village known as Freeport. The Bible School was small but intimate, and sparsely populated by people who quickly became so much more than their roles as staff and faculty normally would entail. They were family. We fought, argued, cried, laughed, studied, ate and literally lived together there at that sacred place. It was a good, good place. It is where I found a firm foundation which has in the long term proven to be stronger than any thing with which I have thus far been challenged. Yes, Transylvania Bible School – as academically unaccredited as it was and still is – had a seriously profound spiritual effect upon me. Read more…