A blind journalist was given a month’s suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (750 dollars) by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license. The owner of the car, who was also drunk as he sat next to the blind man when he drove the vehicle, was given the same…
Month: August 2008
family, ministry, video
McKendree Campus Ministries Video
Orin’s wife is the Catholic campus minister at McKendree University in Lebanon, IL. She works in the Methodist campus ministry office (MU is a Methodist School) with Tim Harrison. Here’s a youtube video they put together highlighting how the office serves the student community. They use a “WePhone” (I assume it’s not a WiiPhone) as their image, with…
liturgy
Emphasis
For those of you coming here to find a strange joke or a curious bit of news, I (Orin) apologize, but I couldn’t think of where else to share these liturgical thoughts and questions. You may know the Vatican recently gave its approval to a revised English translation of the mass, though we likely won’t be…
friends, music
"A Brushfire Movement"
The National Catholic Reporter has an interesting article out right now about contemporary Catholic music, where it comes from, how it’s used, false dichotomies in liturgical music, etc. While largely about Matt Maher (pictured), it briefly mentions several other artists, including Oddwalk friend and fellow GIA artist Paul Melley. Check it out!
announcements, GIA
A couple more projects
Hey all, Just to let you know, keeping looking back here or our main page over the next few months for a couple other new, exciting announcements about Oddwalk and GIA. We won’t spill the beans just yet, but the graphic below is a hint on one of the bits of news. In fact, we…
GIA, music, website
"Walk Away Different" Updates
“Walk Away Different” now available at the LimeWire Store. Also, the 2009 GIA catalog is out, find us on page 64.
announcements
Better Than A Gold Medal
The Oddwalk family would like to congratulate our friends Ricky and Tania Willmann on the newest addition to their family, Jeremy Ryan. Jeremy was born on Thursday night and both Mom and son are doing well. If you’re interested in more information there are a couple of places you could look. Ricky keeps a couple…
ministry
Institute in Adolescent Catechesis
This week we have been attending and helping out at the Institute in Adolescent Catechesis, put on by the Center for Ministry Development and held this year at the Shrine. Oddwalk friend D. Scott Miller has been blogging about the week as an attendee, and took a few minutes to record a podcast with Shannon (As another attendee)…