Life with Ghosts Last night Emily and I started to watch “One Punk Under God,” a documentary about Jay Bakker. Jay is the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. I’ve been interested in finding out more on Jay as we had a friend who worked with Jay’s
Continue reading →The folks from Pure Volume have built a new social network that promises to be pretty sweet. ThanksPaul for hooking me up with an invite! And now I’ve got 10 of my own to give out for anyone who’s interested. Contact me if you want in, and hopefully
Continue reading →This week has been INSANE. I guess that would make this a, “notes from one who is now insane,” post. I spent all day Monday, Tuesday and Thursday writing a paper on the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. I have a little over 40 pages to show for it, and now am
Continue reading →As posted on a number of sites, New Testament scholar Bruce Metzger died at 93 this past tuesday. Metzger is one of the main people responsible for assembling the New Testament Greek Manuscript as we have today, he also headed up the translation of the widely popular and most academic
Continue reading →I read this the other day and loved hearing about Jordan’s interaction with theologian Jaques Ellul. Everytime I read statements by Ellul I am challenged, excited and filled with awe. Here are some really great quotes from an excerpt written on the Burnside Writers Collective. Jacques Ellul – The Presence
Continue reading →This is a guest article written by friend and colleague JR Rozko of Life as Mission. “FAQs of a Theologian” is a segment I run from time to time that seeks to answer basic questions that get asked of people with theology degrees. If you would like to submit a
Continue reading →My Australian ‘mate’ Jarrod McKenna’s sent me a provocative short piece on how Jesus would love even world criminals like Osama and how the Australian Prime Minister isn’t happy about it. What is interesting is when John Howard (the Prime Minister) put forward his position to the press
Continue reading →I’ve begun to compile a listing of blogs by students who attend or have attended Fuller Theological Seminary. This is meant for any student no matter what you write about, or what your various positions are on theological matters. It’s just a page to help connect Fuller students
Continue reading →I just found this site that has a video of both Ryan Bolger (my PhD advisor) and one of his PhD advisors when he was in school, Eddie Gibbs. Here they give some brief thoughts on “What is the Emerging Church?” A small movement in the West directed at thinking
Continue reading →Here are some random thoughts that have been crammed in my head over the past week: I decided to switch the ol’ theme around for awhile, it’s still using the same core called “subtle” but now with a little different style. Unfortunately, I am having some problems with my
Continue reading →Today is my Emily’s dad’s birthday (the big 53) and I thought I’d take a moment to mention a few of his characteristics that make him a great father-in-law. 6.5 to be exact. 1 – We have a lot of things in common: he loves the outdoors,
Continue reading →A couple weeks back, I stumbled upon what seems like a small culture of people who have backed away from the “pure paperless ideology.” They are using small notebooks (Moleskines) to manage the tasks and projects in their lives. I’ve researched a bunch of various methods and learned a
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