Seeking Pietas #1 - Introduction
I remember listening to a talk by John Piper several years ago where he mentioned that he was advised as a young man, along with his fellow seminary students, to find a dead mentor among the various leaders of the church in history and to be mentored by them through their writings. If you're familiar with John Piper, you may be able to work out that he chose Jonathan Edwards. That didn't mean he ignored other writers but simply that he concentrated largely on one who would mentor him.I remembered this in the summer and thought it was a pretty good idea. It so happened that during the summer, lots was going on to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the

Gone fishing...
Ok, turns out life in Paris is rather busy and blogging is rather hard - can't even do a proper catch-up from the summer! The long and short of it, well the short of it, is that after formacion I went on an Orientation conference for IFES InterAction workers and now I'm being one of them in Paris. There.I will try to keep the blog going, I'm certainly still learning lots! But your patience is appreciated!Merci!

Catchup #1 - Formacion
It’s been one of those long breaks again – my apologies. As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in my flat in Le Pecq – a suburb to the west of Paris. So as you might have guessed, a lot has happened since I blogged back in August when I began my (failed) attempt to live-blog the IFES Formacion conference. So I thought over the next few days I’ll explain the highlights of what’s happened and how I’ve come to be living in Paris.So first, the failed formacion live-blog. That last post came in a rare spot of free time alone between b