Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of my graduation from seminary, so of course I went to the seminary graduation where I assumed they would be commemorating the anniversary, but no one seemed to remember. They moved the ceremony to a new location this year, somewhere in Nebraska. I just know I took Lincoln for many miles and then turned left.
The mall, I mean church, where they had it this year was equipped with about eight plasma screen TVs and had a bookstore/cafe called "Elements." My brother wisely pointed out that this church must charge people for the bread and grape juice for communion and elements would be where you make that purchase.
Overall I felt like the ceremony went quickly which is always much appreciated. No one mooned the crowd or anything. Perhaps the funniest thing was that there was one woman who recieved the certificate in spiritual formation and she got a lot of clapping. Here was her day...
"Would the candidate for the certificate in spiritual direction please rise." (Applause)
"Shera Ragedy Ann Munez (not her real name)" (Applause)
She walks across the stage and then the whole place is silent watching her as she walks around the bottom section back to her seat, she finally arrives. (Applesauce, I mean applause)
Other highlights were my uncle graduating from the DMin program, Dan calling me from about thirty seats away a couple seconds before the amen of the last prayer, and wondering how many millions that building sucked up.
Also, congrats to Jen Fouts and Mark Hallock on getting pretty much every award.
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