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(taped 01/15/08 via phone)

BIO: A faith filled storyteller, Leland Nagel has held a variety of positions on both the diocesan and university level. He served for 15 years as director of Total Catholic Education for the Diocese of Green Bay. He recently began his latest role as the executive director of National Conference of Catechetical Leaders (NCCL). Lee Nagel is an educator by profession, a catechist by vocation, a teacher by trade, and an evangelist by Baptism.

QUOTE TO NOTE: (on the future:) We are becoming far less compartmentalized. The National Directory has this wonderful line about that we should not be in water-tight compartments. (Long before Hillary Clinton talked about the “whole village”), we, as a church, believed and understood that in terms of our Rite of Christian Initiation.  But, I think that sense is coming back, whether it would be that we are going to be more intergenerational.

OBSCURE FACTOID: Regarding the 1982 New Orleans NCCYM (and NO, really, no one wants to know how old or unborn you were back then…) The whole conference pretty much stayed at this one hotel.  The whole conference pretty much hit Bourbon Street hard on the last night.  The whole conference had a moment of confusion, however, when they returned late at night as the hotel’s lobby had been redecorated for Christmas in our absence.  

BEHIND THE SCENES: Still working on the transfer of the digital recording from my recorder to my editor.  There is a buzz in the background that gets picked up in the transfer.

BLOG REFLECTION: can be read here for January 23th.