Reviews Review: They Like Jesus but Not the Church by Dan Kimball Recently, I wrote an review of emerging church leader Dan Kimball’s book “They Like Jesus but Not the Church.” The was for Barclay Press and can be read in its entirety here. The review is for the August book discussion on the BP site, where Dan Kimball will be
Blog Entries Harry Potter To Become A Quaker? Emily and I had a nice weekend (and our last here in the UK) with some friends near Norfolk and we couldn’t help but pick up the latest Harry Potter installment. Not only have we too been impatiently waiting for it like the rest of the world, but we
Blog Entries Our Voyage and Sixth Year Emily and I are currently traveling through Scotland, tomorrow we are headed to the Isle of Skye, then to Aberdeen, then Edinburgh. The we fly to Ireland for a couple of nights before heading off to Paris. This is our 6th anniversary this year and since this may be the
Blog Entries Relient K Guys Survive Bus Fire Speaking of almost-tragic fires this week, I just found out yesterday (from my mom) that Relient K’s bus caught on fire while they were traveling from the Creation festival to Illinois. Thiessen and another passenger on the bus noticed the fire, alerted the bus driver, and woke up the
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Summer Mixed CD, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Trinity Legos Here’s another dress down Friday complete with music videos, Mac goodies, summer mixed CD’s, leaked scripts and something fun for that theologian in your life. * The Holy Trinity Lego set is ready for order, and will go well with your Jesus bobble-head. It’s the perfect gift for
Blog Entries Thinking Bloggers 2007 | One Top Five List Robin recently tagged me for a “Thinking Blogger” meme, which I was very thankful to recieve, especially from someone like Robin, who I personally look up to. If you were allowed to tag back on these memes I would have tagged Robin because she is certainly at the very top
Blog Entries Re: The Daily Scribe Has Been Retired This post is long overdue but the Daily Scribe religious blogging community has been retired. What is written below is part of an email I recently sent to everyone who participated in the Daily Scribe project. Since that time I’ve received more questions about the overall status of Scribe
Green Dress Down Friday June 22 | The Green Edition Here’s another edition of dress-down Friday. This week I wanted to focus on green issues, and let me forewarn you: this is somewhat intense. I’ve decided to focus more of my attention on these issues, and try and help do what I can to educate and make aware
Blog Entries Fire at the Simple Way House in Philly I just found out from Janelle’s blog, about the fire at the Simple Way house in Philadelphia. This is where Shane Claiborne and others live and do their ministry. And to hear about this tragedy is a real shame. Many of us really appreciate and look up to way
Featured LIfe At Woodbrooke Part 2 | Reading and Writing I’ve been reading and writing a ton while here at woodbrooke, which I suppose is good since that’s why I came here!? I just finished a fourth section to my final paper, it was on Martin Davie’s analysis of why and how Liberal Quakerism became the predominate
Featured (un)Programmed: Towards the Program of the Spirit | YQ Article About a week ago I had an article come out in Young Quaker, the publication run by Young Friends General Meeting in Britain (See volue 53,number 6). This edition was the last one for Jez Smith, a friend of mine who currently lives in London, and who I worked
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Truth, Blogaholics, and Bad T-Shirts Another Dress-Down Friday is upon us so kick off your dress shoes, put on your flip flops, grab a cup of Peets (because I can’t) and browse the web. Josh Brown has put together a couple videos called “I still love truth” part one and two. I think they
Blog Entries London, the Olympics and Getting Rid of the Poor I read this article today in the Guardian and thought it was worth pointing out. The article, “London is getting into the Olympic spirit – by kicking out the Gypsies” by George Monbiot argues that the Olympics, often thought of being a way to boost the economy for the poor, is
Featured Weekend Away | Teflord’s Iron Bridge and the Shropshire’s Buildwas Abbey This past last weekend I had the opportunity to go visit my friend Simon in his home town of Telford and he took me to see some really cool things. Instead of going into great detail I thought I’d put a slideshow together for you to see what we
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Myspace vs. Facebook, Michael Cera, Body Hacks and Hobnobs Another week of various treasures from around the web and world! This is Dress Down Friday for June 8th. Check out all these Old TV Shows. I cracked up when I saw this Myspace vs. Facebook video from via coworking.com World’s Most Awesome Shirt comes straight from PA.
Uncategorized Convergent Friends An Introduction by Rachel Stacy Rachel Stacy, a young Quaker woman and soon to be graduate from Earlham School of Religion, with a double major in religion and chemistry, recently finished her final school project for a class in contemporary religious movements. She decided to do the final research project on convergent Friends and has
Featured An Apologetic for a Quaker Theology | Do We Need It (or want it)? This is a response to a comment I received yesterday about Quaker theology. The comment was good enough that I decided to write a post about it, because I know that many people have the same questions and challenges it brought up. Theology should be done in a way that
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | If I Told You, Timbuk2, and Paul Newman The normal dress down friday, even though it’s on Sunday this week. Click on the picture, the links are embedded as notes (roll you mouse over the image once you’re on the flickr page). Technorati Tags: advertising, dress down fridays, Paul Newman, timbuk2
Featured Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away Online communities continue to grow Myspace, Virb, Facebook, delicious, flickr, twitter, digg, 30boxes, box.net, etc, etc, all offer a way for people to share and stay in touch. I personally like the attention web 2.0 companies have paid to making the web more interactive in this way. I
Blog Entries I Guess I am a Neo-Orthodox Postmodern Quaker (What on earth does that mean?) You scored as Neo orthodox, You are neo-orthodox. You reject the human-centredness and scepticism of liberal theology, but neither do you go to the other extreme and make the Bible the central issue for faith. You believe that Christ is God’s most important revelation to humanity, and the Trinity
Blog Entries Life At Woodbrooke | 5 weeks Deep Part 1 I’ve been in the UK for almost 5 weeks now and it feels like the time is flying (I arrived on May 2nd). My Wife, Emily, will be here in approximately 22 days, 11 hours 53 min and 39 seconds. Of course, that was when I wrote that sentence,
Blog Entries Young Friends In Newcastle and Some Highlights This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to Newcastle and hang out at the Young Friends General Meeting. Simon and I stopped on the way up north (Newcastle is about 3.5 hours north of Birmingham) in Durham for some lunch and to take a look at the
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Vimto, Your Dad’s Pants and Lynx I’m headed off to Newcastle (home of one of my favorites) for a Young Friends Gathering this weekend. But before I head out I have two very simple video clips that will blow your mind. Both of these video clips are commercials that get aired over in the England.
Featured Meeting House Innovative? | Visual Arts and Creativity in Quakerism Recently I had a great talk with a woman from Essex, and she goes to a Quaker meeting that’s doing some really cool stuff. I asked her about her meeting and she told me that there are about 35 people there and they have unprogrammed worship every week. But
Blog Entries Flickr-Slidr Slideshows for Your Blog (And UK Pictures) Paul has created a great web app called flickrslidr that let’s you embed flickr images into you blog. Here got the idea after writing this tutorial about embedding slideshows. Anyways, I’ve been wanting to post the images from my UK travels thus far, and thought this would be
