In a week from today, on Super Tuesday, Jim Wallis will be coming to Fuller to speak. I'm excited to hear from the editor of Sojourners magazine on such an appropriate day for a discussion on politics and following Christ. It should be very interesting.

In other news, it is beautiful in Pasadena most of the time, but now with snow on the mountains and the air as clean as it gets for the Los Angeles area, it is exceptionally so. Elijah and I ran around the Rose Bowl this morning, an easy 3 mile jaunt, and enjoyed the snow capped mountains and brisk air. Today is the first in some time that we haven't had any rain. Some here complain about that; maybe it is because I grew up on a farm where we waited for the rain every winter, but I love the rain. Nothing quite like falling to sleep to the sound of a good storm.

Now it's back to writing a paper on the understanding of Acts 2:42-47 in Southeast Asia where community has a higher value and poverty is pervasive.