Update

This week we welcomed Tom Ritter, who made it for the first time. We also made a couple of decisions regarding our constitution and by-laws. I acquired documents from the Canterbury chapter at Northwestern in Natchitoches and brought two items to the attention of the group.


First, although voting membership in Canterbury@ULM is restricted to enrolled students at ULM, we agree to have our meetings and activities open to faculty and staff. We will not make them open to the general public, as ULM policy requires us to hire security if we do.

Second, we decided to keep their provision that the chapter will do at least one 2-hour service project per semester, either on or off campus. One possibility is to help with a neighborhood clean-up in the vicinity of New Light Baptist Church on the south side, where Chaplain Dr. K. is involved in a neighborhood renewal project. Another would be to put in a few hours of work at the food bank.

We then had an interesting discussion of "Lump" from the NOOMA series. This episode is about a little boy whose misdeeds catch up with him and cause him shame and grief. At the same time, he learns a powerful lesson about love. The story ends with Rod Bell repeating, "There is nothing we can ever do to make God love us any less. Nothing." We talked about how hard that is to believe, but even more about how hard it is for us to hold that kind of love for others--especially that person or type of person we find least loveable. Excellent discussion!

Join us next week. I'm picking another from the NOOMA series. Suggestions for what kind of food you'd like to eat are welcome!

Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30

Student Center 163