Blog Entries Britain Yearly Meeting Blog Is Up and Almost Running John Fitzgerald from Britain Yearly Meeting has set up a blog for this year’s yearly gathering and has invited Simon, Jez and me to be the ‘official bloggers’ of the event. John said, “This should be a great way of expanding the experience of Yearly Meeting to reach those
Blog Entries Dress Down Fridays | March 2, 2007 This is another Dress Down Friday, where the point is to have a little fun, share some links and recap the week. Oh and I’m taking the weekend off, Emily and I are heading off to Berkley for the weekend so here are a few thoughts before we head
Blog Entries TIme-Killer: Your Three Favorite Recently Discovered Blogs and Why? [Updated – see bottom] Not that you or I have that much time to kill at the moment, but I am interested in learning what your top three favorite blogs are right this moment. We have a lot of blogs we read all the time, but I am interested in some
Featured Remember You are Dust: Reflections on Lent 2007 The season of Lent began last week on Ash Wednesday, which marks the 40 day period of waiting for Holy Week. Lent is a time of cleaning out our lives, remembering the frailty of life, reflecting on God and preparing space for the pinnacle of the Christian calendar that comes
Featured James Cameron Found Jesus And He’s Not Even a Theologist! The Filmmaker, James Cameron, known best for his overblown, and over sunk, romance movie the Titanic is now trying his hand at archaeology, well kind of. See, Cameron has done something no one actually in the field of archaeology has been able to do, he’s found the coffin of
Blog Entries Do A Little Design? Help Princeton Out (Unofficially) Adam Cleaveland’s decided to do a little contest for all you designers. He’s giving out prizes to the top three people who can come up with the coolest new logo for Princeton Seminary. It’s not that Princeton has asked anyone to do this, but it does sound
Blog Entries Dress Down Fridays | Feb 23, 2007 Here’s what’s come across my desk and life in the last week. Lately I’ve been toying around with two social websites: virb and twitter. Virb is a social networking site for individuals, groups, musicians and moviemakers. It will mostly like be the beginning of the end for
Featured The Questions Pacifists Always Get Asked I found this article “Five Questions Your Pacifist Friends Are Tired of Answering” from the Burnside Collective. The article, written by Jonathan Fitzgerald, is an easily accessible article on specific questions that pacifists often get asked. Fitzgerald introduces his article by saying, “What follows are five questions about/arguments against
Blog Entries Cleaker Theme – Simple Three Column WordPress Theme Adam, a friend who writes at pomomusings and attends princeton seminary, just released a really nice, simple three-column wordpress theme. The colors are warm and inviting, and the price is right! (free). If you’re interested in his other design work check out Cleave Design. If you’re in the
Featured The Things We Carry: A Spiritual Reflection on Life With Ghosts Life with Ghosts Last night Emily and I started to watch “One Punk Under God,” a documentary about Jay Bakker. Jay is the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. I’ve been interested in finding out more on Jay as we had a friend who worked with Jay’s
Blog Entries 10 Invites for The Virb Social Network The folks from Pure Volume have built a new social network that promises to be pretty sweet. ThanksPaul for hooking me up with an invite! And now I’ve got 10 of my own to give out for anyone who’s interested. Contact me if you want in, and hopefully
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday | Notes From Feb 16 This week has been INSANE. I guess that would make this a, “notes from one who is now insane,” post. I spent all day Monday, Tuesday and Thursday writing a paper on the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. I have a little over 40 pages to show for it, and now am
Blog Entries RIP Bruce Metzger: New Testament Scholar Dies As posted on a number of sites, New Testament scholar Bruce Metzger died at 93 this past tuesday. Metzger is one of the main people responsible for assembling the New Testament Greek Manuscript as we have today, he also headed up the translation of the widely popular and most academic
Blog Entries Jacques Ellul – The Presence of the Kingdom I read this the other day and loved hearing about Jordan’s interaction with theologian Jaques Ellul. Everytime I read statements by Ellul I am challenged, excited and filled with awe. Here are some really great quotes from an excerpt written on the Burnside Writers Collective. Jacques Ellul – The Presence
Featured FAQs: Why is God Communal? This is a guest article written by friend and colleague JR Rozko of Life as Mission. “FAQs of a Theologian” is a segment I run from time to time that seeks to answer basic questions that get asked of people with theology degrees. If you would like to submit a
Blog Entries Jesus Would Even Love Osama!? I Don’t Think SO Says Prime Minister My Australian ‘mate’ Jarrod McKenna’s sent me a provocative short piece on how Jesus would love even world criminals like Osama and how the Australian Prime Minister isn’t happy about it. What is interesting is when John Howard (the Prime Minister) put forward his position to the press
Featured Find Theological Blogs: A Listing of Fuller Seminary Bloggers I’ve begun to compile a listing of blogs by students who attend or have attended Fuller Theological Seminary. This is meant for any student no matter what you write about, or what your various positions are on theological matters. It’s just a page to help connect Fuller students
Blog Entries What is the Emerging Church? Two Videos with Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs I just found this site that has a video of both Ryan Bolger (my PhD advisor) and one of his PhD advisors when he was in school, Eddie Gibbs. Here they give some brief thoughts on “What is the Emerging Church?” A small movement in the West directed at thinking
Blog Entries Dress Down Friday – Notes from Feb. 9 Here are some random thoughts that have been crammed in my head over the past week: I decided to switch the ol’ theme around for awhile, it’s still using the same core called “subtle” but now with a little different style. Unfortunately, I am having some problems with my
Blog Entries 6.5 Great Qualities of A Father-In-Law Today is my Emily’s dad’s birthday (the big 53) and I thought I’d take a moment to mention a few of his characteristics that make him a great father-in-law. 6.5 to be exact. 1 – We have a lot of things in common: he loves the outdoors,
Featured Create a Moleskine PDA: The Student GTD Hack A couple weeks back, I stumbled upon what seems like a small culture of people who have backed away from the “pure paperless ideology.” They are using small notebooks (Moleskines) to manage the tasks and projects in their lives. I’ve researched a bunch of various methods and learned a
Blog Entries New Version of Pukka Announced For Delicious I use Pukka non-stop throughout the day as I do reading and research on the web. It’s a super fast way for me to bookmark, and tag webpages to my delicious account. Today, a new version of Pukka was released. It’s really worth the $5 if you’re
Blog Entries Everything Green On the (mt) Switch? Hey everyone, I’ve transferred my Website over to Media Temple hosting. I don’t anticipate any problems but will you let me know if you notice any bugs?
Featured 5 Streams of The Emerging Church and Convergent Friends (?) My Friend Jarrod McKenna sent me a link to this article the other, it’s written by Scot McKnight, professor of religious studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. The Article is called “Five Streams of the Emerging Church.” Here is a long quote from the article: To define
Blog Entries Contest Almost Over – Drop Your Name in the Hat Don’t forget tomorrow night is the last night of my 1 year blog anniversary contest. I am giving away a pretty cool prize to one lucky reader of this blog. I’ve decided to randomly draw a name out of my hat to select the winner, so it’s
