Featured Dress-Down Friday | Happy First Birthday L Edition This is a “Dress-Down Friday” in honor of our daughter L, who’s celebrating her first birthday today. I can’t believe it has been a year since the arrival of this wonderful gift from God. This past year has been incredible! Over the past year we’ve experienced the
Blog Entries New Gathering In Light: 3rd Edition Three years ago I bought gatheringinlight.com and started hosting my own website and blog. It was an attempt to establish more of a presence online, work on my writing, and try to make connections with other people interested in the same kinds of questions I am. Over the course
Featured Reclaiming the Power of Primitive Quakerism for the 21st Century Robin, Martin and I are leading a weekend retreat at the Ben Lomond Quaker Retreat Center this coming February on convergent Friends, we’ve humbly titled, Reclaiming the Power of Primitive Quakerism for the 21st Century. I’m looking forward to taking an entire weekend to focus on building community,
Church in Mission Finishing Two Quarters with Everett Cattell Image by Midnight-digital via Flickr This past Friday I dropped my paper in an envelope, paid the $2.63 postage and sent it off to Elkhart, IN at 4 pm, an hour before the deadline. Leaving the post-office, I felt much lighter. Not only was a six-month weight off my
Blog Entries The Unlikely Hero of Psalm 85:1-2 Image via Wikipedia LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. You forgave the iniquity of your people; you pardoned all their sin.” (Psalms 85:1-2 NRSV) Jacob wasn’t exactly a hero in the biblical narrative, at least when you look at even a
Blog Entries Upcoming Blogging Hiatus I’ve decided I need a little break from the blog these last couple weeks of the quarter. I’m currently working on my 40+ page paper on Everett Cattell’s life and contribution to Quaker missiology and I need to clear everything else of my desk. The paper is
Blog Entries Through Flaming Sword: Spiritual Autobiography of George Fox My guess is that many younger Evangelical Quakers know little about George Fox‘s life, ministry and faith or have found reading through his Journal a rough go (myself included). I think Quaker historian Arthur Roberts newly updated and classic text, “Through Flaming Sword” will help to change this. This
The Cultural You Are Not What You Buy (BND 2008) Looking for something interesting and provocative to take part in this Thanksgiving? Forget standing in a line outside of Walmart at 4 am on Black Friday, instead consider taking part in “Buy Nothing Day.” This is a two-day event put on by Adbusters every year to make the point that
Blog Entries Dress-Down Friday | Going Up In Smoke [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIA8_54fDk&w=500&h=419] It’s Dress-Down Friday again, I hope you’ve got your sandles (or at least some flip-flops) ready. Good has an interactive map looking at where Americans smoke the most: Still not sure what to
AIDS Christmas Album Raises Money For Children Peace on Earth Vol. II is a collection of Christmas music put together for the express purpose of raising money for The Children of Uganda Fund. There is a whole laundry list of issues facing Ugandan children, especially those in the north, among the most prominent issues are Malaria and
Church in Mission “Dear Woman, why do you involve me?” Mission Without Guarantees In the fourth of his missiology lectures (see more on his third here) Steuernagel reflected on a few passages where we see Mary interacting with her son, Jesus. In John 2:3-5 it says: When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.
Barack Obama Dress-Down Friday | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2169237&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1 London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo. This week has been fairly busy for me, I’m
Featured How Quakers Voted in the 2008 Election I’ve finally finished compiling the statistics from the poll we conducted here last week. When I initially posted the survey it hadn’t dawned on me that it would be me who had to compile all of the data as well! That took quite awhile, especially since Math and
Church in Mission There’s Something About Mary(‘s Theology) This past week Fuller’s School of Intercultural Studies hosted its annual Missiology Lectures. This year they invited Missiologist Valdir Steuernagel, of World Vision to discuss, “Missiology and Mary in Latin America: The Southern Church and a Fresh Mission Movement.” This is an overview and reflection on his third lecture.
The Cultural David Bazan Visits Fuller Seminary David Bazan graced Fuller Seminary with his presence this past Saturday, playing a sold-out show in what turned out to be a very intimate show in Fuller’s Travis Auditorium. I’ve been a fan of David Bazan’s music (aka Pedro the Lion and Headphones) since a friend of
The Political Dress-Down Friday: Post-Election Edition Well the election is finally behind us. So in honor of this wealth of free time we all now have here are some links that you may (or may not) find to your liking. Jim Wallis challenged James Dobson’s 2012 Fear Letter Christians should be committed to the kingdom
The Political Quaker Friends and Readers Voting Poll I am putting together an article for The Friend reflecting on the presidential election for our British brothers and sisters. The point of the article is to reflect on the election from my standpoint as a Quaker, Evangelical and American. To that end I am interested in how other American
The Political A Fresh Start And the American Election Growing up I remember learning about the atrocities of slavery, what happened to the Native Americans, and the many harmful, and violent things that were done in the name of freedom or of Christ. I personally have often felt ashamed by much of this country, it’s a narrative I
Blog Entries Dress-Down Friday | All Hallows Eve As all of you know today is Dress Down Friday, not to mention Halloween. So here’s a little trick and a treat. Twitter Vote is a cool service that will be tracking reactions, responses, problems as well as exciting news from here till after November 4th: Millions of Americans
Church in Mission The McCain-Palin Taste for The Secret We live in a culture of increasing secrecy. Despite claims of being the ‘age of information,’ one might goes so far as to say we live in a culture of ‘the secret.’ Not only has there been a flood of recent secular books all pointing to new secrets being discovered
The Cultural Zizek and Theology by Adam Kotsko Adam Kotsko’s recent book, iek and Theology, is a great addition to the growing library of commentaries, introductions and appropriations surrounding Slavoj iek‘s philosophical work. It was only recently published in the States by T & T clark and it comes in the series “Philosophy and
Church in Mission Barclay Press: Gospel Order and Convergence Culture (Part 2) I’ve posted the second part to my Barclay Press article on technology and the church, called “Gospel Order and Convergence Culture,” have a look. Here’s a short quote from the post: While technology is a dominating force in our world today Gods reign is not excluded from
Blog Entries Tracking Emering Churches in Denominations Most of you know I have at least some interest in the emerging church and write about it from time to time, or maybe it’s just a guilty-by-association thing. But in either case insofar as these new community’s are ‘missional’ expressions of the church, and exemplify ‘new forms’
Antonio Negri New Books: The Monstrosity of Christ, Evangelicals and Empire, and Lessig’s Remix Here are a few new books on their way out, or already published, that I want to highlight. The Monstrosity of Christ by Slavoj iek and John Milbank. The book is about secularism, politics and the future of Christianity between two unlikely characters: John Milbank, the main proponent of
Blog Entries Using Wiki’s for Class Collaboration – Fall Quarter 2008 This year I will be assisting Ryan Bolger (his new website) in his classes again, for the fall quarter we’re doing Church in Mission. Over the last three years I’ve TA’d a number of different classes with him and he’s always doing some really great things
