Yangzi River
It looks like we’ll be able to take a cruise down the Yangzi (Yangtze) River over Thanksgiving break! The four-day …
Monthly Archives: September 2007
new pictures
You can find more pictures from the World Cup game under At Home: World Cup game. We’ve also posted some …
Weekend Fun
After three straight weekends of school activities, Sarah and I finally have a chance to relax a little – and …
Open House, Request
Our first quarter at CDIS is a the half-way point; progress reports head home early next week. Last night we …
High School Trip
Our weekend with the high-schoolers was fun. A little wet, but a good time for the kids to get better …
This weekend we’re heading off on a retreat with the high school students. It will be a quick trip, but …
God and Imaginary Numbers
Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: It is always easier to approach—or rather, ignore—mysteries of math by dismissing them as false or unintelligible. And how much more for mysteries of faith. So is God like an imaginary number, waiting to be discovered and accepted in a renaissance of faith? The simile is ridiculous, on its face. But, in a curious way, the ramblings of scientific history remind those who strive for reason just how vast reality is. The realization is at once unsettling and exhilarating: Truth is far richer than our minds—always confined by the here and now—can prove or even imagine.
Working Weekend #2
This past weekend was the second of three with extracurriculars going on at CDIS – we had kick-off overnight get-togethers …
Dan and Sarah Roeber 