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The Question: John the Baptist’s “Are you the One?” Matt. 11

December 15, 2010 Featured 4 min read

Here are some thoughts from a portion of my message this past Sunday on Matt. chapter 11. In Matthew chapter 11  we find John again sending his disciples out (as he did in Matt. 9) to get a little scouting report on Jesus. This time John is in prison because,

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Book Giveaway: Three Copies of Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices

December 12, 2010 Featured 2 min read

I don’t know about you but I love free books! So, in the spirit of Christmas I wanted to gift three people with a copy of the book I helped edit and love to share around. The book was published this year by Quaker Press and has been well

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Logging off from Facebook and Twitter

December 10, 2010 digital detox 1 min read

Some of you have probably noticed my absence already but last Friday I logged off of Facebook and Twitter for the month of december. Call it a digital detox, social media vacation or just plan weird but I decided I really needed a break over the advent season so that

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Modest Proposal .pdf Version Available

December 9, 2010 Church in Mission 1 min read

Because I’ve been posting about Brent Bill’s recent series of posts about the revitalization of Friends I wanted to alert all of you to the fact that he’s edited all the blog posts down into a .pdf. I was excited to learn he was going to organize

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Seeing Beyond What We See

December 9, 2010 Featured 1 min read

At Camas Friends we are thinking about advent season and how it is connected to our sense of sight this year. Here’s something short I’ve written about it: This advent season we are invited to see the movements of grace all around us. The Christian tradition has for

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Postlib or Emerging?

December 8, 2010 Blog Posts 1 min read

A friend sent this today and it had me laughing out loud. It’s really hard to choose which one I’d rather be. I’m just glad there’s nothing to make fun of Quakers about… 😉 http://www.xtranormal.com/site_media/players/jwplayer.swfhttp://www.xtranormal.com/site_

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The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry

November 21, 2010 Poetry 1 min read

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on

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Escapism and Citizenship on the Web

November 20, 2010 Featured 4 min read

The web has been a good place to me. I have formed many meaningful relationships over the web, I have maintained long distance ones, and I have had the opportunity to be a part of a variety of ministry, as well as academic, events because of it. Many of these

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More Detailed Information for Quaker Heritage Day

November 19, 2010 Featured 4 min read

February 12-13 I will be in Berkeley (at Berkeley Friends Church) discussing some of my favorite topics with anyone who wants to join us. The series of talks is currently being called “Heralding The New Creation: Mission as Participation in the Quaker Tradition” and in it investigate the renewal of

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A Silencing Witness

November 18, 2010 Blog Posts 1 min read

Came across this quote today and found it to be particularly good in relationship to the text I’m reflecting on this week: Psalm 46. “In Witnessing, the role of talking is frequently overemphasized. Does that sound strange? It’s true. Silence and especially true listening are often the strongest

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Thanksgiving and Irony

November 18, 2010 Featured 12 min read

Here’s the message I gave this past Sunday. I am not going to be posting my sermons online as much as I have been in the past but since our recording software for the podcast had a major breakdown this last week I thought I’d put this here

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Being A “Released” Minister

November 11, 2010 Featured 3 min read

I recently went through and changed most of my online profiles, email signatures, and even our bulletin for Sunday morning it from “pastor” to “released minister” as that language seems to fit where I am at better. So now, at least on paper, that’s the language I use to

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