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
Continue reading →I admit that can be hard on the church from time to time, but this is in part because I believe that we have such a grave responsibility to bear peace and reconciliation to the world. In this way I tend to enjoy people like Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder,
Continue reading →On Friday, August 18th, Emily and I will celebrate 5 years of marriage. We are driving up to Ludington Michigan where we’ve rented a little cottage on the Lake for a little peace and rest. We’re both really happy to have some time to ourselves but also sad
Continue reading →Here are few good reads from the folks over at the Daily Scribe. From “A People So Bold” a post about Reinhold Niebuhr‘s stance on nationalism. Quoting Niebuhr, “The gospel cannot be preached with truth and power if it does not challenge the pretensions and pride, not only of
Continue reading →My housemate Chase and I were having lunch the other day and we started talking about important books that we would use if we were going to teach Bible and Theology students. Now granted we’re both from more of an Evangelical stream of Christianity so I recognize that some
Continue reading →Every now and then I like to have little bits of activism promoted through my site, ones that I feel are not too weird or are doing something worthwhile. Kent, PhD student in Ethics and Mennonite, sent me a link to the Ceasefire Campaign and I think it fits the
Continue reading →I just finished reading Martin’s post about him finally finishing John Woolman’s Journal and it got me thinking about how I enjoyed Woolman’s journal so much. Then I started thinking more about books (not something that’s all that hard to do, really.) This reminded me to
Continue reading →Well in short our meeting last night was wonderful, there was a group of about 13 adults, 4 children (and a few lovely mennonite-volunteers) and I think it would be safe to say we all enjoyed ourselves and learned a lot from each other. For now I thought I would
Continue reading →A long while back I finished East of Eden, a Novel I’d been working on for months. I wanted to write out some quotes and thoughts I had while I was reading it, because it has such a profound effect on me, but I never got around to posting
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