On Jubilee

Friday morning breakfast at Jubilee.

Last week at this time, quite a number of us were making the tough transition from Jubilee, where we’d spent the weekend, back to reality. I’m not sure what my friends to the north were doing, but I was dragging myself out of bed and to the Empire State Building to lecture on evaluating sources for research papers. I told my students that I spent the weekend remembering what it was like to function on very little sleep. They were appreciative.

I’m curious to see what other Cardus staffers took away from our experience – besides our many shared conversations late at night. As I mention at the Jubilee blog today, the image of John Perkins preaching from the very edge of the stage, beckoning to us as students, will sit with me for a long time.

We were privileged to meet with a number of people while we were there, including a late-night talk with Mike Hickerson of InterVarsity’s Emerging Scholars Network and breakfast with a couple of our favorite Comment authors, David Greusel and David Naugle. We strategized and planned for the future. I personally was privileged (or something) to learn a lot of new information about the Canadian political system and curling.

Most of all, though, I came away from Jubilee knowing that something great is afoot, that God is doing some awesome things and I’m grateful to just be extended the grace to be a part of it with such enjoyable co-laborers.

And I also left grateful, as I often do after these sorts of gatherings, that we live in the age of social media, when it’s easy to continue the conversation after the lights go down.