Here’s a surprising fact: All twenty-two thousand evangelicals at Urbana have met, bible in hand, to discuss the proposition "Live a Live Worthy of the Calling." Either they are "calling" for impeachment or I will have to change my opinion of our neighbor to the East. Wait, no I won’t. Urbana is the name of the triennial convention of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship which used to meet in Urbana and has now outgrown it. They still call the convention "Urbana," which could not be more ironic if it were called Berkeley or Ann Arbor, but what a wonderful compliment to the City anyway.
At the end of December these 22,000 evangelical and mostly young adults met in St. Louis, and without one hoop in sight attracted the attention of their host city and 300 Christian mission societies. As alarming as 22,000 Christian missionaries may be to their namesake, I suspect no ones’ heads but their own are at risk. Good for Urbana, good for St. Louis, and good for these idealistic yoots.
And while I am on a religious streak, congratulations to our Thomas More High School which sent more that 10% of the Diocesan contingent of 300 to the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. Thirty-four years since Roe v. Wade, thirty-four Marches for Life. Congratulations. Making like Sandra Day O’Connor, I hope this march will not be necessary in fifteen years.
What I would like to do next is get the National Temperance Society to begin holding its convention here in Champaign.
John
Sure - we need the National Temperance Society here in Champaign-Urbana. Are you rooting for the Taliban to start holding their annual meetings here as well?
they outgrew Urbana and the Assembly Hall - awesome for them.
And a big "way to go" for STM - I am not a Catholic, but love their version of activism.
Logic <> Religion