I was reading on Andrew Sullivan’s blog today and noticed this quote about the primaries that we just completed and the Obama campaign:

Tomorrow I will go to the African American cemetery outside of Chicago where my great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, and my mother and father are buried. And I will tell them that they were right — that if we studied hard, worked hard, kept the faith, fought for justice, prayed, that this day would come.

And it has.

In other news, I’m over halfway through my institute materials, which feels good. I’ve even been able to sneak in some other readings from time to time, a rare occurrence. I’m currently working my way through Why We Aren’t Emergent, a book by a couple of thirty-something evangelicals about the issues that they have with the emergent church, as well as Schools of Conversion: 12 Marks of Neo-Monasticism and Beyond Racial Gridlock.

In other news, my tour of the East Coast is coming up soon. In 9 days I’ll be in DC, and 20 until Philly.