In keeping with the conversation at bay, MacIntyre’s words on protest are fitting. In his seminal work “After Virtue” he focuses on arguing how and why the “Enlightenment project” failed. Essentially it is because the modern period has stripped away from humanity any social context in which to couch
Continue reading →Much gets said about protest, some people like protesting and fill their lives with it, some have extremely negative feelings and argue it’s a waste of time and something Christians should not do. I’d like to briefly discuss what it means to be focused on the “Yes” of
Continue reading →Here we find ourselves finally in October, my favorite month of the year (mainly for selfish reasons). Some good things about October are the fall (which typically means leaves turning beautiful vibrant colors), cleveland browns football, oktoberfests, halloween, (my birthday), and the return of cooler weather. However, in LA there
Continue reading →While at the politics and spirituality conference we got to hear Wallis, Richard Rohr and Anne Lamott speak. They were also given time after their talks to answer questions from them audience. This gave a bit of a chance for the rest of us to interact a little with the
Continue reading →I mentioned earlier that I recently bought a new [used] bike and I debated on whether to say anything about it here, I wasn’t really sure anyone would care. But because I love bikes and blogging so much I finally broke down and thought I’d give a few
Continue reading →Evangelicals like there bibles, and in this way I am absolutely no different than any of my other evangelical brothers and sisters. Now my views on inspiration, interpretation, and the canon span the theological spectrum but that’s for another day. I’ve got a few bibles more than I
Continue reading →I just finished Shane Claiborne’s Irresistible Revolution,” which is the first assignment for the class I am teacher’s aid for and I thought it was a fantastic read. In fact, if you’ve got nothing better to do in the next thirty minuets go out and pick up
Continue reading →Yesterday I started class. Now it’s official, I have been a doctoral student for 1 day, and at the moment I am still pretty excited about this new adventure (and also unsure, I must confess). I am taking a class with Dr. Nancey Murphy where we will be studying
Continue reading →This was cross-posted over on Ryan Bolger’s class blog, which I wanted to announce anyway. If you’re interested in seeing what we’ll be up to this quarter jump on over there and check it out. I am looking forward to the class I am a teacher’s
Continue reading →Nik, top notched web-designer from Scary Little Monkey, has created a smplr. A simple homepage search engine that sends queries to google. So why use it instead of google? Because it looks ten times better and it loads faster. So not only is it nice to look at and it
Continue reading →Awhile back I visited a nearby Quaker meeting with Robin and Chris while they were in town. It was my first experience in an unprogrammed meeting and I really appreciated my experience there and it got me thinking more about queries. One thing I have always loved about Quaker practice
Continue reading →The Daily Scribe has grown out of it’s wordpress skin and so things a getting changed around a bit over at the top religious aggregator site on the web, so go by and check out some of the changes. Here are a few links from this past week, which
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