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A massive amount of people from my college youth group - Veritas - are going to the L'Abri Conference in Rochester, Minnesota (my mom's home town!) this weekend. We're packing my tiny Volvo S40 up with two large men and three normal-sized girls. It'll be a tight fit. Here are the lectures I'm excited about going to (full list):

"How John Cusack Ruined My Life: How Movies Shape Our Expected Relationships" by David Richter

"Grace at the Table: Lessons from Little Miss Sunshine and Other Unlikely Characters" by Margie Haack

"Between the Bible and Brain Scans: Understanding Depression" by Richard Winter

"Men and Women: Can We Be Friends?" by Sue Morrell

"Modern Day Piracy and the Ethics of File Sharing" by David Richter

"Flowers, Beauty and Truth" by Jane Winter (I love her, she's the kind of woman I want to be)

"Hospitality: A Renewwed Vision for Counter-cultural Christianity in our Times" by Andrew Fellows (He is a worker at English L'Abri and a great speaker)

"The Shapes of our cities and how we live in them" by Alen Jensen

"Sex: Agony and Ecstasy" by Richard Winter

"Alienation, Utopias and the Cry for the Whole Gospel in the Brazilian Culture" by Rodolfo Souza (this would be awesome - I'm very excited about the L'Abri in Brazil. In my Global Perspectives and Realities class, we each have to pick a sojourn country to study and to make a travel proposal for and mine is Brazil).


This'll be my third year at the conference, and I'm pretty stoked. The hotel that the conference is at - the Kahler Grand - has a shady pool at the top of the building that no one ever goes in except me and Allie and a bunch of 11 year old boys there for a basketball tournament. Whatever.