I must continue with my thoughts regarding this past weekend, there is so much to talk about! And in order to do that I thought I’d start with a little about The Beatitudes Society and what it is. A while back in the spring I think it was, I
Continue reading →There was a question about what I meant in terms of a small church from a commenter the other day, I thought I’d address here. In response, when I think of a “small church” I think of a place that you are able to know and be known by
Continue reading →Today I spent time reading a dissertation by a now-graduated Fuller student named Brad Kallenberg. And I found something interesting that points toward a strength within Quaker theory and how it might help other young churches.??? In his (dishearteningly thick) dissertation Changing the subject in postmodernity : Narrative ethics and philosophical
Continue reading →I spent this past weekend at the Politics and Spirituality conference with the Beatitudes Society both of which I have much to write about and will do so over the next week or two. But in this moment I continue to think of this day as the anniversary of September
Continue reading →Here are some interesting links from The Daily Scribe from this past week… Crookedshore writes about Luke 19 – the Parable of the Minas. He asks concerning the third servant: The question for me is why he failed to put this money to work? And what has this to do with
Continue reading →After writing three posts about things to look for when church shopping, I got to thinking about what things people would be looking for when they asked those questions. I am of the opinion that we all have certain things we look for when trying to find a church. So
Continue reading →Emily likes to play this game where we talk about what we’d be doing in alternate lives. We went camping this past week, and she asked all of us there what we’d be doing in our alternate lives. Well as these things go I like to play around
Continue reading →Many of us have visited multiple churches in our lives, some stand out more and other’s we probably don’t remember much about. For many people what stands out most is what happens during the service, the kind of preaching, what was preached, the music, how the sacraments were
Continue reading →This week there were some great articles I wanted to point out from the gang at the daily scribe. * Camassia has a very thoughtful post on that fits well with my posts on church shopping as she writes out some ideas on how churches can welcome strangers better. * Over at
Continue reading →Continuing on from the first post in this series we will look at what are some things to look for in when we are church shopping and only have a brief time to get to know a little about the community we are checking out. (Also note there are many
Continue reading →Emily and I are back from our 2 week vacation in the Midwest. We had a lovely time seeing family in Friends in Ohio, and Nashville. And we thoroughly enjoyed our anniversary which we spent in Ludington Michigan at a great Bed and Breakfast called Cartier Mansion. I will post
Continue reading →Here are some fancy links for your blog reading pleasure. Nathan writes a book review on A Heretics Guide to Eternity??? by Spencer Burke and Fuller Prof. Barry Taylor. He sums the book up with this sentence, Religion declares that we are separated from God, that we are outsiders. Grace
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