http://david.wglick.org/2007/on-being-in-europe/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://david.wglick.org/2007/on-being-in-europe/#comment-561 Musings on an Assortment of Subjects » Blog Archive » on the Anabaptist History Tour Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:47:36 +0000 http://david.wglick.org/2007/on-being-in-europe/#comment-561 [...] 1. Strasbourg, Alsace, and environs - I already wrote some about Strasbourg. We had a fair amount of free time and explored the quays, the narrow streets, the museums of the Palais Rohan and the cathedral with its intricate astronomical clock. [Window into the weirdness that is David’s brain: my pun center (yes, that’s a part of the brain) just perked up and tried to do something with “gastronomical clock”…count yourselves fortunate that I have some self control.] As far as the class went, we reviewed the medieval context of the Reformation and pondered the significance, good and bad, of having a church that is no longer unified. We also visited the headquarters of Mennonite World Conference and learned about the current state of the global Mennonite church and the recent effort to identify the shared convictions of that body. Leaving Strasbourg, we drove south along the Vosges Mountains to Colmar, stopping on the way to explore the restored castle Haut-K?nigsberg on purely touristic impulses. In Colmar we made a stop just long enough to try tarte flamb? and see the Isenheim altarpiece. Then on to Switzerland… [...] […] 1. Strasbourg, Alsace, and environs - I already wrote some about Strasbourg. We had a fair amount of free time and explored the quays, the narrow streets, the museums of the Palais Rohan and the cathedral with its intricate astronomical clock. [Window into the weirdness that is David’s brain: my pun center (yes, that’s a part of the brain) just perked up and tried to do something with “gastronomical clock”…count yourselves fortunate that I have some self control.] As far as the class went, we reviewed the medieval context of the Reformation and pondered the significance, good and bad, of having a church that is no longer unified. We also visited the headquarters of Mennonite World Conference and learned about the current state of the global Mennonite church and the recent effort to identify the shared convictions of that body. Leaving Strasbourg, we drove south along the Vosges Mountains to Colmar, stopping on the way to explore the restored castle Haut-K?nigsberg on purely touristic impulses. In Colmar we made a stop just long enough to try tarte flamb? and see the Isenheim altarpiece. Then on to Switzerland… […]

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