I would like to announce that Emily, my wife, has now published her blog and is working on keeping it up to date. Its called Letters Home, and in it she will be wrestling with being an 9th and 10th Grade English teacher in an urban school, as well as
Continue reading →AJ Schwanz has once again written a thoughtful post about Quakers ideas of the sacraments. She’s been reading Bolger’s book and this of course brings up many questions about the use of sacraments for old and new faith communities. Many Emerging Churches do away with the wafer and
Continue reading →**Looking for the XFBA Archive Page, it’s been moved. Look here. Todd Porter sports writer for the Canton Repository wrote two articles concerning the Xzuberant Faith Basketball Association today. Article One Article Two You will most likely have to register for an account, but its not too hard. Here
Continue reading →Last night our mennonite/quaker small group wrote letters to our congressional representatives concering hunger issues in the world. It was my first time to participate in this kind of advocacy and I thought that it was incredible. It only took about 15 min. to write the letters, and I
Continue reading →[this post was edited to reflect the publication of the review on BP]. This weekend I finished two big tasks I’ve been working on for a while. For one thing, I completed my book review for Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibb’s book, Emerging Churches which is now published
Continue reading →Further investigation into the XFBA matter leaves us with these points: 1. The XFBA.org website is being dismantled (either that or edited to reflect the major changes in the organization). The front page no longer leads to any links into the information on their website, you have to access
Continue reading →bottom line – I am going to join I don’t care what I have to do. Here is a link to the IBL.
Continue reading →Yesterday I had this stunning revelation. Like in the movie with Bill Murray, Ground Hog Day, I realized my days were repeating themselves. All day on feb. 1 (Wed) I was convinced it was Tuesday, even to the point of telling my friend I could not go to a concert
Continue reading →Over at lifeasmission.com, JR writes a well thought out and well defined review of George Barna’s revolution. In wondering whether he is really a revoltionary or not, JR discovers that Barna’s own conclusions are still to individualist and based too much on statistics and not enough on
Continue reading →Ok – I’ve been holding my metaphoric tongue but there is a news flash concerning the XFBA (xzuberant faith basketball association). I’ve had tons of comments and hits of the blog today and this deems posting. largest set of comments another set of comments Here is what we know
Continue reading →Ryan and Eddie’s class started last night, MC535 “Emerging Churches,” of which I will assist in the grading and ideas-sharing of the course. Its fun to be in class while standing on the other side of the desk so to speak. Stitting there last night, instead of frantically trying
Continue reading →JR and I have begun what may be an on going techie/creative evening of blogging, and working on our sites. Here’s photo from the night. Technorati Tags: friends, blogging
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