Jeff Geerling's blog

Just before the second week of Steubenville St. Louis Mid-America, a huge storm rolled (very slowly) through Springfield, MO, taking down power lines around town, but (fortunately) not causing any injuries. Power was restored just before the doors to the Arena were opened, but the storm was a very prominent reminder of God's awesome power!

I shot the video below on my iPhone 4 (which had a couple of close calls, during the extremely windy parts of the storm) in HD, and posted it to YouTube:

At this past weekend's Steubenville conference (the first of two for 2010—I'll also be present at next week's conference!), I took over 1,000 photos. After editing and deleting redundant or crummy pictures, I posted 353 of them to this Flickr collection (slideshow here).

My normal photo-taking workflow is this:

1. Take a ton of pictures (maybe 100-200).
2. Pop out memory card, insert into computer, transfer photos, erase memory card.
3. Take another ton of pictures.

Sadly, during Saturday night Eucharistic Adoration, I was happily snapping away a bunch of beautiful shots (I was probably up to about 100), and a little warning popped up on the camera "There was an error writing this image to the card. Please use a new card." Read more »

It has always amazed me how quickly Steubenville registration slots fill up when group registration opens online. I was amazed yet again, as this year we had over 2000 more slots available than we had in years past, and they still filled up in record time.

Spots remaining: none. Read more »

Most of you have seen the infamous Wedding Dance video* on YouTube (and spoofed on the show "The Office"), but for those who haven't, the video shows a couple and their wedding party dance into the chapel to Chris Brown's Forever, a song released and made popular last year.

I'm guessing most of you have heard Forever... if you have not, you can listen to it on Lala. Read more »

A friend of mine recently sent me a link to the following YouTube video:

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Today Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican released a flurry of statements and speeches regarding the use of communications media, social networking, and YouTube, all targeted towards the 'digital generation' (that means you and me!).

The Pope gave a challenge to those of us who are born into the 'digital age,' in which social networking, texting and chatting rule the day: he wants us to remember who we are (creatures of God) and what our purpose is (to love God and to bring our love of God to others).

He tells us:

[New communications technologies] respond to a "fundamental desire" of people: the desire to communicate and relate with one another, something rooted in human nature itself.