Blog Entries My Favorite Albums and Artists Of 2007 Since it’s almost the end of 2007 it’s time to post some of my favorite albums of the year. I will post my five most favorite in order then the rest is kind of a free-for-all. I will also offer a few new finds, musicians who don’t
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | December 19, 2007 For this Dress Down Friday I did a little research to see what happened on the day baby L. was born. I found a number of lists for “This Day in History.” Here’s a few things: * 1835 — The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio
Blog Entries Our Baby Daughter Arrives! 12.19.2007 On Wednesday December 19th, 2007 at 4:21am our baby daughter was born. She’s 6.1 lbs, 19 inches long, wonderfully healthy and ridiculously beautiful! The whole thing was such a holy experience, I am still buzzing from it! This baby is soooo awesome! Mom did a fantastic job
Blog Entries Poem: Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child Glenn Jordan, from Crooked Shore, sent me this poem the other day, I thought it was worth sharing with all you. While we are past this point of first discovery, it’s still pretty cool.Oh, on another note, I read a blogger recently who wrote that they promised to
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Skribit, Good, and David Bazan Another installment of your weekly dress down friday jibber. I just got my account activated at Skribit, a new social networking tool for bloggers. You can see it on my front-page sidebar. Basically it allows readers to suggest topics to be written on, and vote on ideas already submitted. If
Blog Entries Some Thoughts On This Past Quarter We’ve reached the end of the quarter, which turned out to be pretty good albeit pretty busy preparing for baby Daniels. The Church In Mission class I TA’d for was a great learning experience, and it’s always good to work with Ryan because he welcomes input and
Church in Mission Church in Mission: Post-Christendom, Effectiveness and Reshaping Ethics Pt4 Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five According to John Howard Yoder, one aspect that distinguishes this bi-cultural faith community we call the Christian church from the world is its insistence upon being non-coercive. This point of view has major implications not only for the
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Top 2007 Apps, Canidate Match and CAR BIKE! * Brett from Circle Six blog (one of my favorite tech blogs) has recently done a list of his favorite mac apps from this year over four posts and they are all worth checking out (though most of them cost money). * Jake, who is new to the Daily Scribe, has a
Blog Entries New From the Bookshelf Intro | MacIntyre, Root and Caputo I’ve decided along with my other segments (like Dress Down Friday, Flickr Pics, and Quotations) on ol’ “gathering in light” that I’d start doing a little segment on new books that I come across at the bookstore that you may (or may not) find interesting. I am going
Uncategorized Dorothy Day & Changing the World What we would like to do is to change the world – make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of
Blog Entries How To: Make an HTML Email Signature For Apple Mail My good friend and designer, James LaCroix, showed me awhile back how to make an html email signature for Apple’s Mail program (something it doesn’t do easily). Since I set up that signature I have had a few folks inquire how I made it, so I thought I
baby Happy Birth-Month: Like a Baby In The Night Well, we have officially entered December, month nine, and the countdown to the birth of the baby is at 24 days. We are both increasingly excited, and at this point are anxious for her arrival. We want to meet this amazing person living in Emily’s womb! But then again,
Featured Dress Down Friday | Facebook Privacy and the Fisherman Things have been a little slow this week since I am in the process of finishing up the quarter, but I’ve got some interesting links this week. Oh and sorry to flood your inboxes with Twitter, I wanted to have them on my blog as posts so people could
Blog Entries Mac’s Keynote (on Dual Displays) One problem I had in class yesterday was a technical one. I use Mac’s Keynote software to put main points onto slides for the class to see. I also typed out all my (behind the scenes) notes thinking I’d be able to read from my macbook’s screen
Blog Entries Class Lecture Day Today Ryan gave me the opportunity to lecture in his Church in Mission class (I am the aid for the class). This quarter we have been looking at post-colonial themes and ways of reading the culture, responses to culture from a variety of perspectives including: the incarnation, trinitarian theology, ecclesiology,
Featured Advent and The Gift of Life (Luke 1:57-80) Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Black, Buy Nothing, Turkey Carcass Edition Happy Dress Down (Black) Friday, and since it’s Black Friday that also means it’s Buy Nothing Friday, which I am celebrating! And if today is Buy Nothing Friday, then that would also have to mean that it is the day after Thanksgiving, and if that’s the case
Blog Entries Blog Awareness: Mockingbird’s Leap, Advent Conspiracy and Jesusland Here are a few blogs I think you should check out this week. Be sure to take a look at what Glenn Jordan of Crooked Shore is up to for the Advent season. He’s invited a bunch of his friends to join him in the practice of attention as
Featured A Day Trip to AAR to Have Theological Discussions on Quakerism I had the chance to have a little road trip and drive down on Friday to San Diego and go to AAR (American Academy of Religion). I went down because of the Quaker theological discussion group that met from 4-10pm. I had a really great time meeting tons of new
Green Goodbye Lexan Nalgenes Emily and I have been tugging around Nalgene water bottles for the past 8 years (as long as we’ve known each other), and have been really happy with their usefulness. Yes, we must love to keep hydrated or something! Well, we recently learned about how harmful the Lexan-made Nalgene
Blog Entries Readers of Gathering In Light on Facebook While running the risk of being completely shameless in blog promotion, I decided to start a “Readers of Gathering in Light” facebook page. I know a number of you are already on facebook so it seemed fitting, plus this is a way for you to give feedback about the site
Church in Mission Church in Mission: Translation and The Bi-Lingual Community (Pt.3) This is the third part of the Church in Mission series where I am attempting to appropriate some of John Howard Yoder’s thinking in direct relationship to the mission of the church in our culture today. Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five So far
Uncategorized Wendell Berry on The Earth as Other The earth is what we all have in common. It is what we are made of and what we live from, and we cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it. There is an uncanny resemblance between our behavior toward each other and our behavior toward the
