Archive Entry #98: August 16, 2013

Whether the word “cool” is a positive, constructive word is often a function of the user’s generation. Younger folks tend to think more positively of the word than older folks. For purposes of today’s entry, originally published just two years ago, discard your generational bias to receive the word “cool” in the way I propose.... And while you’re at it, figure out ways to express some coolness yourself!

AN UNPAID COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The final seven entries in this archive of “And from Bill...” columns begin next week, on June 16, with a column I wrote in 2006 to praise my roots as a pastor in the Kentucky church called Drennon Christian. The final six will then chart a poignant, nostalgic course via columns I wrote at the time of my 10th and 25th anniversaries as pastor here, a trip back to my childhood in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a piece I wrote last year as I closed in on my grandfather’s tenure record with the congregation in which I grew up, a special guest column on patriotism written by him as a 23 year-old ministry student more than 90 years ago, and finally a new column from me that will be published in this space on the date of our 30th anniversary, Wednesday, July 8.

Stay tuned.

COMING NEXT: From September 2006, the first of six consecutive nostalgic columns: a celebration of my roots as a pastor of Drennon Christian Church, where I served while in seminary just before I came here. Find it HERE.