Jude Brady Crawford
Our little boy was born on May 8th, 2009 at 11:34am via C-section at St. Mary’s Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee.
He weighed in at 7lbs 12oz and was 19″ long.
Here’s a video of us in the hospital talking about his birth:
(to read YouTube comments, double-click on the video)
Today I’m 39wks + 3 days, which means I could go into labor anytime. Like now.
Or now.
Crap. It is taking a long time.
I swear Jude is not getting the eviction messages I keep sending him. It’s like he can’t read or something. Silly boy.
At any rate – you’ll know as soon as I know that something is happening between my Twitter and Nick’s Twitter stream because we’ll be posting live updates. It only makes sense… our first interaction was on my blog, then our proposal & wedding videos were uploaded to YouTube… and now we’ll get to share this beautiful moment with our friends + family too.
(to read YouTube video comments you have to double-click on the video and go to the site directly)
Here’s another video installment of my sit down with Dr. Borg & Dr. Crossan. This time around I spoke with them about their perception of Jesus’ position as a political dissident in Roman occupied first-century Palestine.
Recognizing that this heritage of mixing religion and politics (in sometimes very deadly ways) continues to the present, I also wanted to hear about their take on what they believe Jesus would think of American Christianity today. Would he be ashamed that the label ‘Christian’ means to be one of his followers?
Nick & I decided to throw our hat in the ring with other internet geeks, and create a video application for the Ford Fiesta Movement – a contest where the new car will be given to 100 Fiesta Agents to drive around for six months, performing missions and sharing those experiences through social media.
I think we have a good shot: 1. I’ve got millions of video views and tons of experience video blogging; 2. I’m a pregnant woman – c’mon.. that’s got to score me at least a few points since I’ll have a cute baby to cart around; and 3. I’m a Social Media nerd and have been an early adopter in the space since like ’96. But, nothing is ever guaranteed .. even if our video did bust out the “that’s what she said” line (which by the way, that take was totally spontaneous – it wasn’t until everyone burst out laughing did I realize the joke, and knew right away it had to make it into the video). In the meantime I’ll watch other entries and read tweets from those who are being chosen… and hope that the Ford gods shine down and award us a lovely new car to jet around in for the summer.
Awhile back Dr. Marcus Borg and Dr. John Dominic Crossan agreed to sit down and let me ask them a few questions. They both belong to the controversial Jesus Seminar and are two of the most renown Jesus scholars in the world. In fact, they just released another book they co-wrote called The First Paul … and although I haven’t read it yet, I guarantee it is packed with interesting commentary because every book I’ve read from either of them has always challenged me to reexamine my theological constructs in light of the historical information they surface.
So why did they let me shoot them with my crappy little video camera?
I’m one of Dr. Borg’s former students – actually I took more classes from him than anyone else during college. I was lucky enough to sit down a bunch of times and pick his brain over the course of those years, and it just so happened the timing worked out where we were all in Portland at the same time… so that’s how the video(s) came to be. (Yes, there’s more footage to come!)
