Month: May 2008

  • Radiohead’s “All I Need” For MTV’s EXIT

    Jarrod McKenna posted this video on his blog yesterday. It is a music video of Radiohead’s “All I Need,” juxtaposing children on opposite sides of the world: one group rich, one very poor. They video is held together through a pair of shoes.  The point of the video? “Some things cost more than you realize.”…

  • On Immodesty: Too Much Skin (At Church and Elsewhere)?

    My buddy Rhett’s written on a provocative topic, what do we do about immodesty in the church? This is pressing for him and I since we are both now father’s of beautiful little girls.  He writes: No matter what we as parents do I know there will always be that cultural peer pressure on my…

  • Quaker Teacher Fired For Not Taking an Oath

    This may be old news for some of you but last week Quaker Wendy Gonaver, an American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton here in LA, was fired for refusing to sign the loyalty oath. The LA Times reports: As a Quaker from Pennsylvania and a lifelong pacifist, Gonaver objected to the California oath as…

  • Two (Possible) Roles of Religion In A Global World

    I’m currently writing a methods paper, laying out how I will conduct my field research among Quaker congregations. In the section where I’m dealing with culture and the role of the church I found Slavoj Žižek’s quote below to be insightful and to the point. The social order in which religion is no longer fully integrated…

  • Barclay Press Essay:The Temptation To Surrender

    Barclay Press, the main Evangelical Quaker publisher, has totally revamped their website and invited five columnists to write for them over the next year. I am one of their columnists, along with Joseph Thouvenel, Pam Ferguson,  Eric Muhr, and Nancy Thomas. The new site and featured columns launched yesterday. I was really excited to receive the invitation to write…