Blog Entries Changing Homes: The Meeting House Network A quick announcement – we at the Daily Scribe have decided to do an entire site revamp, with some new ideas, a new name, a new feel, for the new year. We’ve appreciated all the hard work and commitment to the community. There has been a good deal of success
Blog Entries The Church and Postmodern Culture I just found out about “The Church and Postmodern Culture” website, which looks like it’s going to be a great find. Chris, pointed out their first issue of “The Church and Postmodern Culture: Conversation,” otherwise known as c&p issue 1.1. It is a downloadable “journal” of
Featured 1 Year Blog-Anniversary Giveaway Posted Edited 1.29 (See below): Today is the one year anniversary of gatheringinlight.com and my migration over to WordPress. 365 days ago I moved my blog from blogger to hosted wordpress account and bought this domain name. And I’ve decided to have a giveaway where anyone Can
Featured Thoughts on Pedagogy: Does Technology in The Classroom Help or Hurt? A couple weeks back I had the great privilege to meet with some of the faculty and staff at the school where I attend, to discuss updating the classrooms on campus for better learning. The school was recently awarded a grant with this specific task in mind. One question raised
Featured Thoughts on pedagogy does technology in the classroom help or hurt A couple weeks back I had the great privilege to meet with some of the faculty and staff at the school where I attend, to discuss updating the classrooms on campus for better learning. The school was recently awarded a grant with this specific task in mind. One question raised
Blog Entries Problems with WP 2.1 – Duplicate Posts and Comment Issues I have experienced a couple different problems with my WordPress 2.1 install and so I thought I would note them here hoping they may help you out. 1. Duplicate posts was a major problem I ran into This was fixed by upgrading the plugin Sideblog. 2. Comments are not
Blog Entries I Guess Not All Quakers are Pacifists My buddy Chris turned me on to this article the other day, Palestinian Students Beaten and Called ‘Terrorists’ by Football Players at N.C. College “The five-minute attack involved at least 15 members of the football team,??? some of them drunk, the newspaper said, citing a police report and college
Featured Reading for Renewal within A Tradition I’ve compiled some questions from my notes I took while reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s Whose Justice, Which Rationality? As I read Quaker history and theology I try to keep in mind these questions because they help to get at some essential issues that my tradition faces. Find the Primary
Featured DVDevos – Video Devotionals for Visual Christians This week I wanted to highlight the ministry of two Evangelical Friends and some of the cool things they’re doing. Matt Taflan and Shawn Belt, both from Ohio, have joined together in Florida to make short video devotionals they are calling DVDevos. They see this as an opportunity to
Blog Entries Asides in the Feed – Yes or No? It wasn’t too long ago that I added a feature to my website now called “Wess’ Notepad.” Basically it’s a spot where I can make some “bunny trails,” if you will. This is because I really do try to stay on task with offering posts that concern the
Blog Entries Now WordPress 2.1 Powered [Edit – Wait to upgrade I am having some serious duplication and comment issues.] [Edit – Okay now everything should be up and running. I had some problems with two plugins the “Subscribe to Comments” plugin and the Sideblog plugin (which I use for my notepad). Once there are updated files I
Featured Become a Clean Slate Poser in 3 Easy Steps Due to the small phenomena created by the recent battle of the Clean Slate bands, I thought it would be cool to have others join in the fun. So if you would like to join the Clean Slate fan club, better known as the Clean Slate Posers here’s how.
Blog Entries Clean Slate Rock n Roll vs. Clean Slate Holy Rollers My dad’s band from the 70’s was based out of Canton, Ohio and called Clean Slate. This is what they looked liked (can you guess who my dad is?): Want to see more Clean Slate photos? So that’s pretty sweet right? But there is another band who
Featured FAQs: What is Worship? (Pastoral Quaker Perspective) In reading Thomas Hamm’s absolutely wonderfulQuakers in America I came across a good quote about how virtually all pastoral Friends today would agree on what the Richmond Declaration says about worship, the statement comes from the Declaration which is actually highly disputed but Hamm believes most would get behind
Blog Entries One of the Coolest Prizes I’ve Ever Won I just signed up for my media temple account, a hosting company where I will soon be moving my blog over to. I’ve wanted an account with them for quite awhile now, all my favorite bloggers seem to use (mt), but hadn’t decided to switch over until I
Blog Entries Hack Your Moleskine GTD Style Updated: You can now see my step-by-step process for turning a Moleskine into a Student-based GTD system. I just found this amazing post on HylineSkies that shows you how to set up your moleskine to help in “Getting Things Done.” I love using my Moleskine and have had one since
Blog Entries Something to listen to I’ve added a little music widget to the bottom of my links page so I can share some music. All this talk about mixed tapes and all, I thought I’d give you a listen to some stuff I like right now. The widget is also below, click on
Featured Methods in History: Learning a Few New Tricks I hate to apologize for not writing anything meaningful lately because then I have to admit that it’s true, but I am going to do it anyways. Sorry for all these short posts to the notepad but that’s about all I have time for lately. I’ve got
Blog Entries The New iPhone Commercial (Kind of) Edit] Added link. Just saw this earlier today and I had to share it. [ev type=”google” data=”483898781390644117″][/ev] Seems like it’s not working for some reason…here is the link just in case. Is it working for anyone? Technorati Tags: Apple Computer, Iphone, video
Blog Entries The Short Fat Kid Misses Mixed Tapes (And So Do I) Shawn from “Fighting to Stay Awake” has announced the winner of this year’s blog post of the year contest he was hosting on his site. The winner is the “Short Fat Kid” with his post called “I Miss Mixed Tapes.” It brings back some great memories, I wonder if
Blog Entries David Bazan Interviewed By Relevant Magazine Relevant Magazine has two great interviews with one of my favorite musical artists David Bazan, the former front man for Pedro the Lion. I found this quote from the interview where he talks about one of his new songs “Cold Beer and Cigarettes” to be very telling of some of
Blog Entries Richard Kentopp Meets George Michael One of our housemates Richard Kentopp just meet “George Michael” from Arrested Development last night. Here are those pictures. Congrats Richard you are finally a star.
Featured Left Behind Video Game Hopes to Improve Public Relations Before It’s Too Late [Edited to Add Picture Link see the bottom of post for more details] I’ve writen a couple time on the new Left Behind Video Game called “Eternal Forces.” Post #1 — Left Behind Eternal Forces: Violence for Christians Post #2 Training Violent Behaviors: Media and the Message of Desensitization [rant]
Blog Entries Cold War Kids Ep Online My brother-in-law just sent me a link to a news release from the Cold War kids a band I recently found out about and really dig. These tracks are free to download and check out, I don’t know how long they’ll be up so grab them as soon
Featured Gathering In Light 2006: A Year in Review This past year has been a lot of fun on many fronts for me but I’ve had an especially great time blogging in 2006. I thought it would be fun to post some of the things that standout in my memory as important events for gathering in light and
