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
Church in Mission An Emerging Profession: Sharing Power In A Flattened World Drew Ditzel asked me, along with a number of other bloggers (see below), to participate in a project he is doing for his class on emerging models of church at Columbia Seminary. Drew wants us to write about emerging churches and how they are dealing with leadership – mainly through giving
Blog Entries A Blog Makeover I’ve been getting a little antsy about my blog design lately so I thought I’d update it a little. I switched it over to the sandbox theme a number of my blogging friends have been talking about and using. I also decided to install a virtual server on
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | The Looksee, Philosophy and the Leavers Here is this week’s installment of Dress Down Friday. * The Prius just turned 10! I can’t believe it’s been around this long already. * Did you know that philosophers play soccer? Neither did I, but I guess some of the old standbys do. Oh and don’t forget
Uncategorized Karl Barth and the Mystery of God the Creator What the meaning of God the Creator is and what is involved in the work of creation, is itself not less hidden from us men [ sic ] than everything else that is contained in the Confession. We are not nearer to believing in God the Creator, than we are to believing
Church in Mission Church in Mission: Culture and Jesus The Missionary Pt 2. This post is a part of a series where I am addressing the churchs mission as it pertains (or doesnt) to relevancy within culture. I am trying to build the majority of discussion around John Howard Yoders work in his For the Nations.” Series contents | Introduction | Part
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | No Little Kindness’ Oh So Fresh Music Our good friends from the Pasadena based band, No Little Kindness, has set about the task of writing, recording, mixing, and then posting a new MP3 everyweek until they go completely insane. Their music is wonderful and certainly worth the download, and while you’re at it check out their
Church in Mission Church In Mission: The Problem With Being Relevant Pt.1 Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five A big question concerning the church in Western culture is, “how do we make the church more relevant for today’s world?” We see this question get answered in many ways: from youth pastors using the video games like
Green One Argument For Taking the Climate Crisis Seriously I found this video on my Friend Joe’s, Peace Church, website. The video presents an argument for why we ought to take the climate crisis seriously, regardless of whether you believe that there is an actual crisis or not. What do you think, do you find this guy’s
Blog Entries Three Tips For Students Writing Academic Papers I was just emailed by a friend (and fellow Fuller student) who asked me to name my top two or three writing mistakes I see while grading papers and what can be done about it. He’s doing a speech on the topic and wanted to get some feedback from
Blog Entries A Report on the “Perfect” Day Yesterday turned out to be a great day. Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes either through this blog, email, facebook, regular mail or those who met us in person along the journey yesterday. In short, I was successful in having a “perfect” day. 😉 Of course there were a few
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Attempting the Perfect (Birth)day Tomorrow is my 29th birthday, and while I hope to do a little post about the whole thing, I wanted to give a heads up now. I am attempting to have the perfect day. That’s right! Some have suggested it can’t be done, I am setting out to
Blog Entries John Geib Meets YouTube (And Repeat) I was really happy to see one of my absolute favorite New Testament professors from Malone, John David Geib, on YouTube (who not only taught me a ton of stuff about scripture but also helped perform our wedding ceremony!). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrm-NN24wA&rel=1&
Featured Book Review: It’s A Dance By Patrick Oden Fuller Seminary grad, and fellow blogger Patrick Oden has a new book coming out on November 1st, “It’s a Dance” with Evangelical Friends’ Barclay Press. I remember meeting Patrick three years ago when I was just starting to TA for Ryan Bolger’s Emerging Churches class. We’d been
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Videos, Kitty Cat Man and Rapture Month This week I’ve got a variety of videos for you to check out. Thanks to all of you who showed me this stuff, it’s great. Also, post links to your favorite videos in the comments below and add to the collection. Scrapper Bikes! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/
Green Letter To Gap About Business Practices and Sustainability The other day Emily purchased a few articles of maternity clothing from Gap’s sale section online, afterwards she was asked to give some feedback. Here’s what she wrote: I am interested in clothing that is made with Organic and Sustainable fibers, such as Organic cottons, bamboos, and modal.
Featured How To Start A Compost Bin In The City (With Little Money) Today thousands of bloggers are writing posts on their sites trying to raise awareness on environmental issues. More and more people everyday are growing in their concern for our daily impact on the environment. I’ve written a lot about this, and will continue to do so, not because I
Green Bloggers Join Blog Action Day Oct. 15 Some of you may be interested in joining in the event planned for this Monday. Blogactionday.org is calling for all bloggers to discuss one issue, the environment. They’ve are already close to 14,000 blogs who have signed up to write something. I’ve got a couple ideas
