TEEM Work in Indianapolis

For a woman with a reduced summer schedule, my blogging gets off schedule more than I would have expected--I did not plan not to write for the past 2 days. On Monday, I did some intense grading and got grades turned in for the online class that ended this week. Yesterday, I wrote the rough draft of a paper for the class on Paul's letters that I'm taking this week.Then I hit the road, heading out to Indianapolis. I am doing part of a week-long intensive as part of the TEEM program that meets there 3 times a year, staying in the Drury hotel and doing classes at the office of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod. It's part of my ongoing journey to be ordained in the ELCA. So far, the pre-intensive materials are inspiring, and I have hopes as I shift to a different approach towards ordination. A side benefit will be learning more about how the TEEM program works.The trip to Indianapolis takes longer than it did before Hurricane Helene: part of I 40 is still 2 lanes, one in each direction, for about…