Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | More Radiohead, Elephants, Double Births and Hauerwas It was good to take a week off from Dress Down Friday last week, I guess you could say I had a “Business as usual Friday” instead (but that doesn’t necessarily make for an interesting blog post). But this week I’ve got some really great stuff. Radiohead Goodness
Blog Entries First Glance at Radiohead’s In Rainbow I was in the middle of reading some websites when I got the email notification at 10:50pm tonight that Radiohead‘s new album “In Rainbows” was ready for download. I almost jumped out of my skin trying to switch over to mail and hit the special “UNIQUE DOWNLOAD ACTIVATION
Blog Entries Review of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited We finally got to see The Darjeeling Limited this past weekend at the Arclight (our first time there) and the whole thing was a magical experience. Darjeeling, the 5th full length movie by Director Wes Anderson, does not disappoint. Besides the typical things we’ve come to love in Anderson’
Uncategorized Kierkegaard on Solitude It is an awful satire, and an epigram on the materialism of our modern age, that nowadays the only use that can be made of solitude is imposing it as a penalty, as jail. What a difference there is between those times when, no matter how secular materialism always was,
Featured Liturgies of Quakerism Review in The Friend For all those of you who get a copy of The Friend, the only weekly Quaker publication in the world, you will see my review of the Ben Pink Dandelion’s 2005 book Liturgies of Quakerism in this week’s edition. It’s pretty neat to finally get something in
Featured Avoiding the Text? Reflections On Reading in Community My wife and I recently joined a new small group at our church and I we’re both pretty excited about. Over the past 8 years or so I can’t really think of a small group that I was a part of but wasn’t leading in some capacity,
Featured From The ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’ This past spring I had the great opportunity to participate in leading a workshop on convergent friends in Providence with a dear friend, and some new friends we met there: David and Shawna. Afterwards Robin was contacted about writing an article for The Friends Journal on the workshop and she
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | One Words Today is the one word Dress Down Friday Special. * Ouch! * Art * Lovely… * Halloween * Tasty * Interesting * Blue * YES! Thanks everyone for links this week.
Featured Remember the Dutch! The Magic of Creation Emily and I have been doing our birthing classes for the past three weeks preparing for birth. We are taking the Bradley Method classes because we’re both interested in having a natural birth (or at least as much of one as is possible). But that’s where we’re
Uncategorized Lindbeck on The Intepretive Schemes of Religion Religions are seen as comprehensive interpretative schemes, usually embodied in myths or narratives and heavily ritualized, which structure human experience and understanding of self and world. Not every telling of these cosmic stories is religious, however. It must be told with a particular purpose or interest. It must be used,
Blog Entries The Knowns and Unknowns | Entering Into Year Five Tomorrow marks the beginning of another year of school, our fifth year in California, the (School) year our daughter will be born into and the year in which I come very close to finishing my course work. Of course, it also marks all sorts of things I have absolutely no
Blog Entries Unveiling the Desktop (Meme) Adam tagged me in a “show your computer’s desktop” meme. So here it is. I am using this guy’s photo for my desktop at the moment. And I don’t normally have my dock showing but I turned hiding off so you could see it. I am also
Dress Down Friday Dress Down Friday | WordPress Themes, Wes Anderson, Google Mashups Every week I post a random assortment of links, videos, pictures just for fun. In this week’s edition of “Dress Down Friday” I have found some fun stuff this week ranging from LA Metro/Google Map Mashups and new solar powered messenger bags! * For wordpress users who have your
Featured So This Is Your First Year In Seminary? Tips, Tricks and Other Advice In one more week the masses will pile into Fuller’s bookstore, library, classrooms, and student lounges as the first week of the 2007-2008 school year begins. This is a big year for Fuller, its 60th anniversary. The first week of the fall quarter is always the busiest of the
Uncategorized Mission Precedes Ecclesiology To be authentic, mission must be thoroughly theocentric. It begins in Gods redemptive purpose and will be completed when that purpose is fulfilled. The God-given identity of the church thus arises from its mission. This order of priority is foundational. Yet for some sixteen centuries Christians have been taught
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | NES + Guitar Hero = No Little Kind Pranks? * Did you know you can now play Nintendo on your iPhone? * And speaking of video games, while I’ve never been very good at guitar hero I know some of you are. The game is soon to be available for your mac. * For those of you looking to combine breakfast
Featured How To Live Local: Creating Your Two Mile Map Over the next couple weeks I have a few posts I will be doing that revolve around issues of sustainable living. In these posts I will be trying to avoid the more preachy, theoretical rants I can often find myself falling into. Rather these will be focused on tips and
Featured Zizek, the Decalogue and The Problem with (too much) Liberation It is…crucial to bear in mind the interconnection between the Decalogue (the traumatically imposed Divine Commandments) and its modern obverse, the celebrated ‘human rights’. As the experience of our post-political liberal-permissive society amply demonstrates, human Rights are ultimately, at their core, simply Rights to violate the Ten Commandments. ‘The
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Shorpy, Line Game, and Scrabble * Lazlo sent me this flash game called Line Rider it’s worth a few minutes of distraction. * You may want to check out your personality assessment, this seems like a good place to do it. * Found xPad and am really digging it as a replacement for stickies – I like that
