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
The Political About the Nuance of Voting Records Ran across this on On Voting Records and I thought it was appropriate for here as well. He begins by offering this little formula “My opponent voted x times for/against y. X times!” and then writes: No doubt the candidates are uttering such in the debate at this moment.
The Political Quakers Twitter Politics During the Debate Just a short announcement: I suggested to my friend Martin Kelley that the online Quaker community (QuakerQuaker) should team up and discuss the presidential debate live over twitter this evening. Kind of like a worldwide, church-wide, discussion on politics in real-time. Martin asked others what they thought about the prospect
Featured Younger Evangelicals Weigh in on Abortion and Other Issues Once thought to be in the pocket of the Religious Right, many American evangelicals today are discovering a deeper understanding of what it means to be pro-life. Kenny Hiser, communications director from Sojourners sent this article to me that will be their cover article in November, it’s called “The
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | The Anxious Economy and Proto-Christianity Here is another edition of Dress Down Friday, complete with stuff on the economic crises and gun-racks for your bikes. Slavoj iek has an article in the London Review of Books this week on the financial crisis called: Dont Just Do Something, Talk. In it he says: Faced
The Political The Imagination of Politics – William Cavanaugh’s Theo-Politics I’m currently working through Catholic theologian William T. Cavanaugh‘s book ((here is a listing of his bibliographic works), “Theo-Political Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism,” for a lecture I’m doing later this quarter. I cannot recommend this book enough
