Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Picture Version I thought I’d do the DDF a little differently today. Click on the picture below to see a bigger version with links on it. Technorati Tags: dress down fridays
Featured Towards a Post-Foundationalist Quaker Theology: Slavoj Zizek, Quietism and Pink Dandelion Accepting the whole of a tradition and not just the parts I found Slavoj Zizeks opening to his book The Fragile Absolute, to be instructive for a present day study of Quaker theology. He begins by presenting the challenge of two choices: How is a Marxist to counter all
Blog Entries WP 2.2 Upgrade | Almost… I upgraded my wordpress files this morning and it went pretty well, except that the theme I was using “Subtle” isn’t quite working under the new widget framework of version 2.2 — please excuse the basic stripped down look untidyness of the site until I figure out a plan
Featured 1970’s Convergent Friends? | A Brief History My good friend Shawna from Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) sent this to a bunch of us the other day intimating at Convergent Friends being much older than we thought. A conference of Friends in 1970, which represented 24 American YMs and had a 135 in attendance, gathered in Saint Louis
Featured Open Anabaptism and a Community of (in)outsiders I’ve been meaning to comment on Jarrod McKenna’s thought worthy post which looks at the “Emerging Peace Church Movement” or what he likes to call “Open Anabaptism.” Through his various travels and meeting with all kinds of Christians McKenna writes, What people might not be aware of is
Featured … what larks! Some New Friends and New Words jez and wess looking through the ‘young quakers’ t-shirt … what larks! Originally uploaded by Simon Latham. Since arriving in England I’ve been having a blast. There are at least two things that have made it fun so far: new friends and new words. In this picture you can see
Featured Orthodoxy As An Event and Questions About a Quaker Orthodoxy Tony Jones, recently discussed a paper he read at Wheaton. In the paper he talks about the prospect of being an “anti-theologian,” (a designation I too find attractive) and orthodoxy as something that exists within particular events but not as an objective reality out there somewhere. I found some troubling
Featured Dress Down Friday | Rush Limbaugh, 8-Bit Nintendo and Quakerpedia Here’s another installment of Dress Down Friday! Another Radio DJ, Rush Limbaugh, is in trouble for being racially insensitive. He’s recently aired a racially charged song slamming Barack Obama. The Guardian reports, Limbaugh, whose rightwing talk show is one of the most listened to in the US, has
Blog Entries Gilbert and George Free Art From The Guardian This is something I’d normally post in my dress down Friday’s but since it will be over by then I’d thought I should post it now. Britain’s Guardian news paper has a nice write up about Gilbert and George’s latest piece called “Planed.” Gilbert and
Featured Loving Ourselves To Death? A Theological Reflection of Jesus, Self-Love and Modernity [This is cross-posted from the BYM blog] In the context of talking about Quaker work, one of our sessions yesterday, something was said about loving ourselves before we can love others. In this dualistic perspective the inward comes before the outward and there is no room for a circular interplay
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday (on Saturday) | Vatican Board Games, A Barking Dog and A George Fox Video Well this week’s been really good, and really busy. I’ve only got a couple treats for this week’s dress down friday, but nonetheless they should be fun. If you don’t know what to buy your Uncle for his Birthday and he happens to be Catholic you
Blog Entries @BYM – How to Track the Britain Yearly Meeting Online We’ve begun Britain Yearly Meeting today and the blog is up and running full steam ahead. We’ve added some links, pictures, and the Quaker logo on the sidebar and there are at least six new posts just from today. There are five of us writing and if you’
Featured The Eagle Has Landed – err…How I Got to Birmingham Safely By Jet, Bus and Car Well I made it into London (Heathrow Airport) safe and sound yesterday. My day(s) of travel though smooth, was very long. I left on an Air Canada Jet from LAX at 11am on Tuesday Morning May 1st, landed in Vancouver Canada and had a 3.5 hour layover there.
Featured Dress Down Friday | Atlas Songs (Wide Array) – New Music from Kevan Pedan A good friend of ours from Canton, Kevan Pedan, recently mailed me his band’s new album. It’s Atlas Songs’ first full-length and it’s called (Wide Array). I am always excited to see what Kevan does with his music because he’s the kind of artist that is
Featured Allelon: Video Interview with Ryan Bolger on Emerging and Missional Churches There is great half-hour video of my PhD advisor, Ryan Bolger, where he discusses what emerging churches and missional churches are. During the interview he discusses with Alan Roxburgh of Allelon, and author of the Sky is Falling, some of the major points of similarities, differences, and some possible connecting
Featured TV: It’s Turn Off Your TV Week I almost forgot to announce that yesterday marked the beginning of “Turn off your TV Week,” sponsored by adbusters.org. There are a number of ways to participate but the simplest way is to unplug the TV for the week. And why not? We have family and friends that would
Blog Entries Posters: Britain Yearly Meeting Now In Images Jez Smith from Quaker Street has put together a poster for the Britain Yearly Meeting blog (and its bloggers). See it on flickr. Nice work Jez. I can’t wait to join Jez, Simon and Laura in London May 4-7 for Britain Yearly Meeting, we’re we’ll be blogging
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Google Voice, Obey Giant, Charlie Bartlett and Gena Rowlands Here’s some interesting links from the past week’s online voyaging. * My Friend Dave recently pointed out that you can now call google and search with your voice! We’ve been searching “really hip + great coffee + free wifi in pasadena,” but even google can’t find that. * Speaking of
Featured Quaker-Ranter: Martin Kelley Puts A New Face on An Old Tradition Chris M is hosting our first Quaker carnival, an event where everyone connected to this community is invited to write about a given topic. The topic this time around is Martin Kelley, the brains behind the the incredible Quaker-Quaker blogging community. These posts are meant to thank Martin for all
Featured Marquee: Emerging Approaches to Church Leadership (And The Fading Ones Too) In our class on The Emerging Church, we spend a good amount of time talking about what leadership looks like, and what it doesn’t because these questions tend to be pretty pressing for seminary students planning on going into the ministry upon graduation. The missional and emerging churches, along
Featured Resources and Tips for Becoming Green and Protecting OUR Environment I am continually challenged to be more frugal with the way I live my life, expend resources, and how my choices affect others (often people I don’t know and will never meet). When we talk about “saving the planet,” being “environmentally friendly,” or “creation care,” it’s easy to
Blog Entries combo feed @ wessdaniels.info more ways to find (or stalk) me. Tumblr.com is a new blogging hybrid that allows for simple posting of various RSS feeds from all over the web. I am using it to aggregate all my comings and goings across the internet so that I can have one master “combo feed.” In other words, all my accounts
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday (on Sunday) | Special Focus “Drive” New Fox TV Show I almost missed doing a my post of random links from around the web this week, but had a little spare time in between church and lunch today to get this out. This is great because I have a special edition today with a focus on a show I am
Featured Reading for Revolution – George Barna and the Emerging Church Today I had the chance to lead Ryan’s class for the second time this week. On Tuesday we covered aspects from the book Emerging Churches, while today we covered questions and key insights concerning one of Barna’s more recent hit titles, “Revolution.” Here is some of what we
Blog Entries Theologians Start with Questions and Need Humility Found this on Catholic Anarchy and thought it was a great quote for anyone involved in the study of theology. This is taken directly from the postPope Benedict: Theologians must be both radical and humble: From Zenit.org: “Universities, societies and humanity need questions and also answers,” the Holy Father
