It’s cold as hell.它的冷地狱。

It’s fifteen degrees below zero.它的15度以下为零。 -15. -15 。 They say with他们说，与 wind chill风冷 it feels like -35.感觉就像-35 。 That’s cold.这就是冷战。 Even for a Minnesotan.即使是minnesotan 。

But I remember the winter of 1995.  That winter it got to -40 (without wind chill).不过，我记得1995年冬天。冬季得到-40 （无风冷） 。 I was 19 years old, working for $5.25/hour at the local grocery store.我是19岁，工作元5.25/hour在当地杂货店。 I was driving a red circa 1981 Dodge Diplomat.我当时驾驶红色circa 1981道奇的外交官。 It got so cold that the plastic on the steering column constricted and set off the horn.因此，它得到了凉，塑胶就转向柱constricted ，并引发非洲之角。 Thankfully, one of my co-workers knew how to disconnect the horn.值得庆幸的是，我的一个合作，工人知道如何断开非洲之角。 I’m not making this up.我不是这个。

Incidentally, many medieval artists painted Satan blue.顺便一提，许多中世纪的艺术家画的撒旦蓝。 Blue, not red.蓝色，而不是红色。 Why?为什么？ Because they figured that the middle of hell was cold.  The absence of God equaled the absence of warmth.因为他们计算中的地狱是寒冷。没有上帝相当于没有温暖。 Many in Minnesota would resonate with that.许多在明尼苏达州，会产生共鸣。 They’d cuss against the cold and call Minnesota a “God forsaken” place.他们要cuss反对冷战，并呼吁明尼苏达州的“神遗弃”的地方。

But not me.但不是我。 I love the winter.我爱冬天。 Even still.甚至仍然。 It is my second favorite season (after autumn).这是我的第二个最喜爱的季节（后秋季） 。 I’d still rather have a day like today, -15 and all, then an 85 degree summer day.我要仍然相当有像今天， -15和所有，然后一85度夏季的一天。

Most of my fellow Minnesotans don’t share my enthusiasm.我的大多数同胞minnesotans不同意我的热情。 But some do.但有些做的。 Minnesotans are a hardy lot. minnesotans是哈很多。 They have to endure extremes in weather.他们不得不忍受极端的天气。 They are influenced by the Scandinavian (the descendants of vikings) culture of the dominant European settlers in this state.  The people can sometimes be as frigid as the cold.他们的影响，斯堪的纳维亚（北欧海盗的后裔）文化占主导地位的欧洲定居在此状态。人们有时可以作为高寒作为冷战。 Minnesotan men in particular have often embraced a sort of stoicism, a tendency towards introversion, a hard-working, non-complaining ethic towards life. minnesotan男性，尤其是经常拥抱一种生活俭朴，倾向内向，辛勤工作，非抱怨伦理对人生。 But Minnesotans also embrace the social progressivism and compassion of modern Scandinavians.但minnesotans也树立社会进步和同情的现代斯堪的纳维亚。

Weather can shape a culture.天气可以塑造一个文化。 When it is cold for much of the year, you tend to stay indoors a lot.当它是冷战的大部分时间一年，你往往留在室内了很多。 That causes you to, I think, value interior design and technology.造成你，我认为，价值的内部设计和技术。 Perhaps that is why Popular Science named Minneapolis the #1 tech city in America a year or two ago.也许这就是为什么科普名为明尼阿波利斯＃ 1高科技城市在美国一年或两年前。 The extremes in weather have also made Minnesotans resourceful.极端的天气也取得了minnesotans足智多谋。 We can’t plan on good weather for our day to day activities.我们不能就计划好天气，为我们的日常活动。 So we have to improvise.因此，我们要即兴。 And the often drab-yet-harsh weather causes us to embrace aesthetics so that we can bring color and flavor to our lives.和经常褐土尚未天气恶劣，使我们的怀抱美学，使我们可以把颜色和风味，以我们的生活。

Minnesotans, generally, are hardy people, resourceful people, sometimes emotionally distant, hard-working, creative, a bit introverted, and technologically savvy.  That is how we can still thrive when it is -15 below zero outside, without missing a beat. minnesotans ，一般来说，是哈人民，足智多谋的人，有时情绪遥远，辛勤工作，创造性，有点内向，和技术上精明，这是我们如何能够仍然蓬勃发展时，这是-15零下以外，没有失踪的巡逻。

And these cultural values shape our church life.  It is no accident that the Twin Cities is a sort of capital (at least one of the capitals) for all-things-Emergent.  Sure, the undercurrent of Lutheranism helped pave the way for a progressive strain of evangelicalism, but Minnesota tends to embrace the sorts of things Emergent is about: creativity, resourcefulness, technological savviness, introversion (yes, I’d wager that Emergent is primarily introverted…for all the talk, the movement tends towards intellectual pursuits rather than activism).和这些文化价值观的形成我们的教会生活，这是没有发生意外表示，双城是一种资本（至少有一个首都）为所有-东西急诊。肯定的是，暗流路德教铺平了道路，为一个渐进应变福音神学，但明尼苏达州，往往拥抱各式各样的东西，急诊是：创造力，机智，技术精明，内向（是的，我愿意打赌说，急诊，主要是内向…所有的话题，运动趋向于智慧的追求，而不是比的积极性） 。

So, I’m glad that it is as cold as hell here.所以，我很高兴，这是作为冷地狱，在这里。 The cold air forces us to pursue other things.冷空气势力我们追求其他的东西。 We’re not distracted with nice weather for half the year.我们不会分心与尼斯的天气，今年的一半。 And that helps get the creativity flowing.和有利于取得创造性的流动。

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