Blog Entries Updated: The Most Influential Book Of My Life…? Updated: I forgot to put the link to what I to discussion board, sorry about that! — I don’t do well at keeping up with discussion boards and following all the wonderful discussions on the various websites and blogs that I’d like to and this is no less true
Blog Entries Rhythms in Urban Life and the Season of Advent Two separate conversations about rhythms of contemplation have cropped up this week. One was brought up by Emily while we were falling asleep the other night. She discussed her desire for us to build some healthy patterns in our lives that are directed at hearing God, slowing down life, and
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree December 1, 2006 Five posts from the Daily Scribe religious blogging community. * Tall Skinny Kiwi offers a timeline of the Emerging Church * Kesher Talk points out an interesting article on Jimmy Carter and political history with Jews. * Jonny Baker shares a great idea for a new wedding ritual * Jspot offers a link to
Blog Entries Shoot and Deliver is Live So what would you expect to find a PhD student doing during week 10 of the quarter? Building a website maybe? Well if that’s what your guess was then you’re right! My buddy Chris Sikorowski was a freelance videographer long before I met him 3.5 years ago
Featured FAQs: What are the practices of Quakers? “Frequently Asked Questions” is a segment on this site where basic questions get answered from people with theological training. If you’re interested in asking a Question you can contact me, otherwise you can visit the FAQ category or it’s corresponding wiki for more information. This week’s question
Blog Entries Books Died On: Girlfriend For A Night My housemate Arkay, has recently released his new album with his ever-changing band Books Died On. On this album he’s written a particularly revealing song, Girlfriend For A Night, which looks at the ills of pornography and how it dehumanizes all parties involved. Along with giving the album a
Blog Entries Siteground Hosting Special I’ve been using siteground to host my website and domain name for the past year and have had great service with them. Today they sent an email to all their customers offering 5 $20 coupons to give away to friends who would like to get their own website. If
Blog Entries Add Emerging Church Search to Google Did you know that if you have a google homepage setup you can add the Emerging Church Google Search to it easily by clicking on the add google button found at the bottom of that page? Step 1: Step 2: Technorati Tags: Emerging Church
Blog Entries Nancey Murphy & Christian Nonviolence From “Dissident Discipleship (p.129),” After my colleague Nancey Murphy delievers an address in London, two Muslim men sought her out to ask, “Did we hear correctly? You are a Christian and you believe in nonviolence?” “Yes, I come from a long tradition, Anabaptism, which, like Jesus did, refuses violence.
Blog Entries “Burned by Branding” Is Starbucks Getting Smaller? Leadership Blog: Out of Ur: Burned by Branding: Here’s a post about the Ben posted a link to this post and it’s worth the read so I thought I’d also post it here as well. It concerns the influence of huge corporations and the mega-church models of
Blog Entries Use Journaler for a Blogging Tool I recently downloaded journaler, a free Mac Utility you can blog with. It is a fully featured program with tons of bells and whistles. If you have a mac and like to blog I’d check this out. It has a great UI: Here are some of the features: Entries
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree November 26, 2006 This is my late edition of Daily Scribe links for the Week of November 20th. * Think Buddha considers Science and Buddhism * World of Your Making Discusses Emerging Theologians * The Mindful Mission discusses an uglier side to war-time
Blog Entries 10,000 Unique, Oh So Unique hits Thanks to everyone who’s been reading this site over the years, and especially to all over you who participated in the various conversations over this past year as I migrated from Blogger to my own domain in April. Recently gathering in light broke the 10,000 unique hits mark
Blog Entries And Now We’ve Got Notes Yesterday I spent a little time reorganizing the sidebar, and cutting out some things here that were making my load time too long. So if you scan the sidebar on the front page you’ll see that I’ve added a “note pad.” It’s like asides only it’s
Blog Entries Use Terra Pass to Help Reduce Emissions I recently learned about Terra Pass, a company that sponsors CO2 reduction. What you do is find out how much emissions you create and then buy passes that act as investments in companies that set off those emissions. Of course the first hope is that we’ll just use less
Blog Entries UCLA and the Taser Incident – We Tase in the Stacks Now I don’t go to UCLA, but because I live in LA this incident hits close enough to home to draw some reflection and criticism from where I stand. If you’re not sure what I am talking about Slashdot has a succinct explanation based on the article in the
Blog Entries Glory to God Designs and Melissa Tyson With all this talk last week about consumerism and what not to buy I thought it might be fitting to point out someone who is doing a great job and is worth pointing out. I recently picked up a copy The Relevant Nation: 50 Activist, Artists And Innovators Who Are
Blog Entries Happy Birthday Emily Emily, my wife, turned 26 on Friday (the 17th). Thursday evening we celebrated by going out to dinner at a nice restaurant and and taking the night off. Friday evening, we stayed at home and made dinner and hung out with our housemates a bit. Emily and I met at
Featured FAQs: What is the value of confession? Frequently Asked Questions (of a theologian) is a weekly segment where a guest or myself answers a question that gets commonly posed to theologians. The basic idea is to take a theological question and offer an answer that is concise and useful for ‘everyone else.’ If you’d like to
Blog Entries Join Me on Buy Nothing Day – November 25th As a follow-up from yesterday’s article I wanted to mention “Buy Nothing Day.” Adbusters does an event every year where they encourage people to not shop on one of the biggest shopping days of the year – November 25th (Saturday). Emily and I will be joining them and I’d
Featured Culture Jam and the Radical Reformation I just finished reading “Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge–And Why We Must” (Kalle Lasn) for the first time over the weekend. This was another book assigned for Ryan’s class, which I will be leading a discussion on this coming thursday. Sometimes I wonder
Blog Entries Review of Reviewme.com Just the other day, a new service became available: reviewme.com. It is a service that pays bloggers to review websites and products. It’s similar to many things that already happen now, where bloggers get sent books and other products for free in lieu of writing reviews about those
Blog Entries Have a MacHeist Invite on Me I have five Mac Heist invites left, let me know if you want one in the comments. The first week’s contest is only half way over and you still have time to complete it. First five in the comments that want it can have it. Technorati Tags: apple, macheist
Blog Entries Global Warming Video and Blue Guys? A friend emailed me this today, and I thought it was an informative and entertaining video from the Blue Men Group. I’ve never seen much from these guys, but they are intriguing. [gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8453442377878175440&hl=en” flashvars=embedded” width=”200px”
Blog Entries Ted Haggard and Jim Wallis: A Couple Brief Thoughts I found this post over at God’s Politics – Jim Wallis’ blog it was a statement about Ted Haggard and the issues that were raised in the last couple weeks, and I think it’s really good to read. My impression of this whole thing is that like everything else,
