My last post about Jim Wallis’ new blog has generated an important discussion that’s got me thinking not only about the leaders we support but also what things about those leaders we support and where we draw the line (this post may not make a lot of sense unless
Continue reading →I’ve liked the stuff that Sojourners has been putting out as long as I have known about them, they focus on many issues that face the church from a position that tries to bring together conservative and liberal Christianity. This has been something Jim Wallis has focused on repeatedly,
Continue reading →This morning I came over to Fuller’s Coffee Shop, made myself a mug of Cafe’ au Lait, plugged in my iPod and am listening to Starflyer 59’s new album, My Island. I’ve cracked open mywebsite code, uploaded the bleeding-edge version of Subtle, and am doing a few
Continue reading →This week has been a busy one for me, I had a bunch of homework to turn in today but I always have a little time to browse a few blogs. Here are some noteworthy posts for the week… A few posts from The Daily Scribe: Wildhunt wonders if there
Continue reading →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
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