Blog Entries Jarrod McKenna on National Sorry Day (God’s Politics) Over on God’s Politics Blog, Jarrod McKenna has written a great post on national ‘Sorry Day,’ a day when White Australians are trying to enact reconciliation for the pain they’ve caused through racism and colonialism. This could (hopefully) be a chance to change history. She shared later, “things
Blog Entries Claiborne’s Cedarville Cancellation My buddy Rhett Smith has posted a great reflection about the recent cancelation of Shane Claiborne’s scheduled talk at Ohio’s Cedarville University. Rhett questions the validity of the quote below, and discusses his own thoughts as someone who is a college pastor. There was a tension between my
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Guest Holly Big thanks to Wess for inviting the guest post for today’s Dress Down Friday! With Wess’ recent endorsement of Obama, I decided to take DDF in a political direction. For me, following the 2008 election is like watching a good soap opera. I’m completely addicted. Say What?! :: Obama’
The Political Bread For the World: Looking for Young Leaders My friend Holly, who writes at Bread Blog and will be posting this week’s Dress Down Friday, works for a non-profit organization called Bread for the World. They do a lot of lobby work and other types of political activism to help raise awareness for hunger issues around the
Blog Entries Book reading Meme: Zizek and 123? My buddy Kyle has tagged me to write out a quote from page 123 of the nearest book on my shelf. Well unfortunately for all of us, my book is Slavoj Zizek’s “The Puppet and the Dwarf,” which means mostly that it’s going to be difficult to make
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Guest Blogger Josh Big thanks for Wess letting me co-host Dress Down Friday. I’m not sure if my web musings will be of much interest to some, but here they are nonetheless. Jonathan Brink writes about the podcast swallowing the pastor. Good stuff. And I know of a good podcast to check
The Political Reader Poll: How Would Non-USA Voters Vote? Last week I announced who I’m supporting in the presidential race, and while my endorsement obviously didn’t help California, it felt good to bring politics into the subject here. And in keeping with the idea of “gathering” together for common discourse on this site I have question for
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Guest Blogger Ben I love guest blogging. There’s a strange thrill in writing something that will appear on a site other than my own. Thank you for giving me this honor, Wess. I’ve never written a “Dress Down Friday” so what I’ve got here is a collection of links that
Blog Entries Unlikely Quaker “Heroes?” Did you know Annie Oakley was a Quaker? How about Joan Baez and James Dean? Well they were along with a few other surprising people says this Time article… Annie Oakley – “The sharp-shooting female who was rumored to split playing cards edge-wise, then shoot through them a few times before
The Political The Obama Poster From Obey Giant (From OBAMA – Obey Giant) I’ve been debating whether to announce my choice for the presidential race, partly because I know we don’t all agree on who’s the best person for the job (and some more strongly than others), and partly because I hadn’t found an opportune
Church in Mission Quater Six: Halfway Through My Coursework I can’t believe this is my sixth quarter of studies! I am almost exactly halfway done with my course work. I am just about finished with my 3rd tutorial (on theology of church and culture) and completed my 4,000 pages of reading for the class about 1.5
Blog Entries What I Keep in My “Bag of Tricks” For School http://webdev.yuan.cc/flickr/flickrnotes.php?photoid=2217288918 Paul wrote a fun post about the things he carries in his bag for school, and since I have for quite some time carried a “bag of tricks” I thought I’d post what some of those tricks are now. First,
Blog Entries Hipster Baby Essentials Our good friend Amy, and Cindy Lou Who’s ((the psydonym for our daughter)) hipster life coach, from over at “i attack with love” created a one of a kind gift for our daughter the other day. You can read about the Hipster Baby care package here. In the Hipster
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Guest Blogger Cate How flattering to be the first DDF guest blogger! I’m afraid I might not measure up to some of Wess’ posts, but I’ll give it ago. I’m no theologian, so don’t be expecting anything on deconstruction or ‘The Light’; I’m much more interested in pop
Blog Entries Guest Bloggers on Gathering in Light All of you regular readers know I’ve been doing a segment called Dress Down Friday. The basic point is to do a little show-n-tell from around the web on fridays. It’s been a way to have a little fun and ease into the weekend. It’s been a
Featured Does Jesus Have Anything to Do With Our Politics? Well the political world is in a frenzy these days, everyone’s making speculations, mud is being thrown in every direction and some of us are picking sides (The first and last link are somewhat unrelated to the larger topic, I just posted them for fun). And I keep wondering
Featured Homo Sacer and Civilized Racism? In Slavoj Zizek’s book on September 11, “Welcome to the Desert of The Real,” he discusses the idea behind Homo sacer, in order to describe the kind of racism we often find within our society today. The Homo sacer: is an obscure figure of Roman law: a person who
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Save Time In Ultimate Reality 1. AJ asks what do you call your church? It’s a good question. 2. The iPhone popularity is spreading. 3. If you haven’t seen the Moleskine Project website, you really should check it out. There is some great Moleskine artwork there. 4. Finally, Ultimate Reality is here. 5.
Green Thoughts on Riding a Fixed-Gear Bike About four years ago I came across a video of some people riding fixed-gear bicycles, and I was instantly intrigued by the simplicity and aesthetics of these single-speed bikes. Since that time I’ve become more interested in biking both as a culture and as a mode of transportation. I’
Blog Entries New On The Shelf | Corey Beals, Carole Spencer and David Yount This week I have three new Quaker books I wanted to share with all of you. “Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism” is her dissertation boiled down into book form and promises to be one of the most original historical and theological accounts of Quakerism to date. In this book Spencer
Church in Mission Four Models of Emerging Churches I’ve had a lot of vested interest in the emerging church for a number of years now, partly because of my own previous experience in communities that reflected many of the qualities present in Bolger and Gibb’s “Emerging Churches,” and partly because upon reading that book I was
Featured Sit Back And Relax Chillin to In Rainbows from wess on Vimeo. This is our first music video, Cindy Lou Who (her decided pseudonym) loves listening to Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” probably cause it’s about the only album we listened to for the past three months.
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | No Sweat Chucks, McClendon’s Blog and Evil Hot Dogs This is another installment of Dress Down Friday, thank you all who sent me links this week, and as always you are free to send me suggestions through the contact page. The picture above is from a hamburg stand back in Ohio, that guy with the sweet crew-cut is me.
Church in Mission Church in Mission: Five Practices For The Church in the World (pt. 5) Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five For this last post in my church in mission series I want to explain the five practices that John Howard Yoder offers the church as a means of faithfulness and witness in mission. But first, by way of review,
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Solar-Powered Trees and Australian Art * I missed the live Radiohead webcast on New Year’s eve, but fortunately enough it’s still online at Current.com and is a joy to listen to. * I stumbled on this cool Mac program called Leap. It’s a finder replacement and pretty high-powered. It was fun to check
