There is good news I can’t help but share, yesterday I opened my email to read, Wess, I’ve been given the go-ahead to officially welcome you into the PhD program…I’ve been assigned as your mentor, so I’m thrilled to be working with you for the
Continue reading →I switched over from bloglines to rojo about 3 months ago to handle all of my blog feeds. I did this mainly because it has a simple and easy to view user-interface and because of its tagging capilities. Since I first came over the rojo team has continued to develop
Continue reading →Shawn over at LO-FI Tribe has put up a Ping Homily??? for March. He writes a short homily and then asks other to join in on writing about that theme. This month he writes about Courage and I am struck by his brief yet powerful message, exclaiming that we know
Continue reading →Today gatheringinlight.com took a nose dive. While working on editing my new theme supported by Eric Taylor’s K2 Reloaded I decided to clear out some of my old plugins I never use, unfortunately you cannot delete active wordpress plugins, you must deactivate them first or else your site
Continue reading →Tom Fox, a Quaker and a member of the Christian Peacemaker Team was found dead yesterday in Iraq. My only connection to him is in the Spirit of God, but he stands as a hero in my mind and one who lived out the call of the Gospel to be
Continue reading →I’ve been continuing to try and learn (and keep up with) new technologies I think will be useful in the classroom, as I do I post them on my resource page for such items. There are a few I wanted to point to for use in the technologically aware
Continue reading →Emily and I had a blast this weekend up in Berkeley, a place we could easily imagine living. We went up for Quaker Heritage Day, a one-day conference held at Berkeley Friends Church (part of F.U.M) where we talked about the future of the Friends church. The main
Continue reading →I’ve been writing on Evangelicalism over the past few weeks partially as a theological exercise and partially to work out a my own critiques and vision for this movement. I would not consider myself a spokesperson for the movement, nor do I want to be, but I do recognize
Continue reading →If you get a chance check out Ryan Bolger’s Interview on 89.3 KPCC | AirTalk hosted by Larry Mantle. Find March 2nd, and it is under the heading Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures.??? Not only is it a really good interview with Ryan, but its a nice brief
Continue reading →A couple weeks back I wrote a short post about my review on Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs’s book Emerging Churches for BarclayPress.com. For the whole month of march BP will be hosting a discussion on the book, so I invite all those who faithfully read this blog
Continue reading →A continuing saga on the XFBA. Today’s article at cantonrep.com story by Todd Porter Warrants were issued Tuesday for the arrest of Michael Willis Heard and Gregory Railey Jr. after City Prosecutor Frank Forchione charged each with four counts of theft by deception.
Continue reading →Bo Bannister Finally Reveals the Gender Inclusive Pronoun That’s right Bo’s stroke of brilliance should not be ignored: We all know that we need a gender neutral/inclusive/3rd person/singular/human pronoun besides “it”. We have been waiting and waiting for the grammarians to introduce a new
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