Featured FAQs: Why Go to Fuller Seminary for Your Ph.D.? Sorry we missed the FAQs last week, I was swamped, but we’re back and I’ve got some great guests coming up in the next month. This segment is officially called “FAQs of a Theologian” and it is where I or my theologian guests answer a question that often
Featured Book Review: How (Not) To Speak of God – Peter Rollins with Special Offer Peter Rollins founder of the Ikon Community , an emerging church in Ireland, has recently penned “How (Not) to Speak of God” (Peter Rollins).” It is a book that will be important for every church to wrestle with. Rollins writes as one who is both theologian/philosopher (he has a Ph.
Featured Customized Emerging Church Google Search Engine I spent a couple hours this morning creating a customized emerging church search engine using Google’s new Co-op feature. I’ve added tons and tons of websites and blogs that deal with emerging church issues. My sources for this list came from Scot McKnight, Ryan Bolger, The Daily Scribe,
Featured Convergent Friends Google Group Now Open I’ve done a little work and got a google group going for convergent Friends and it’s up and running. There are some pretty neat features that this group offers: 1. It’s got a built in list-serve email, where you can subscribe and send emails for larger conversations.
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree November 3, 2006 I missed last week’s “Jamboree” so I thought I’d post a couple articles from both weeks. The Daily Scribe is a blogging community of religious bloggers who write on a variety of subjects and come from a variety of religions. You’ll definitely want to read on, as
Blog Entries Setting Up Delicious for Researching The Web One of my favorite free, online tools is the social bookmarking website known as delicious (see my del.icio.us). Because I read a lot of blogs, and visit websites all the time I need a way to remember which ones were really good, which ones offer great critiques about
Blog Entries Help Vote In a Scholarship for Paul I know I don’t normally do stuff like this but it seems like a worthy cause. I read and often cite Paul Stamatiou’s blog (a College student from Virgina Georgia Tech), and appreciate the stuff I learn from his site. In fact, many of his tutorials, reviews and
Featured Surviving a Study Program With EarPlugs, a Hiding Place, and Lots of Coffee. We had a great, and much needed, weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped to make my birthday awesome. Emily and I took it easy all day Saturday. It was good because I actually feel pretty well-rested and ready to go. The next couple weeks are going to get crazy around
Blog Entries America’s Overbearing Appetite Emily pointed this political cartoon out to me the other day. It’s more true than we’d like to admit.
Blog Entries There’s Little Time When You’re On the Run – Some Birthday Trinkets [Edited Twice] Lately I’ve been pretty under-the-gun with school work, and all the extra things going on. I don’t have much time to do some of those I love doing. I hope to write soon about all the stuff I’ve had my hands in but for now
Blog Entries Part 2 of FAQs: Books on Biblical Interpretation Part two on FAQs of a Theologian: Answering “What are some good books (and why) that can help me get started in biblical hermeneutics?” This post focuses on the books part of the question. From Dr. Chris Spinks After all of this let me list a few good books that
Featured FAQs: What Are Some Good Books on Biblical Hermenuetics? This two part article has been contributed by Dr. Chris Spinks. I’ve broken up the question and post into two portions. I’ve been asked to contribute to the “ask a theologian” series. Here’s the question as it was asked to Wess and now to me: “What are
Blog Entries FAQs of a Theologian Revised It’s only been a week since I did my first Q & A here, but the response was great and everyone seemed to be pretty excited about having basic questions answered here. So I’ve gone and changed it a little to make it a bit more interactive, and
Blog Entries The Daily Scribe Project Has Re-Opened UPDATE:10.24 There have been a number of issues that came up over the future of the Daily Scribe, a religious blogging community aimed at “content” driven bloggers of various faith traditions, an aggregator driven site with 49 members a part of the community. Shawn Anthony of Lo-Fi Tribe
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree October 20, 2006 Here are some posts from around the religious globe of the Daily Scribe. * Mike from Thoughts on Spirituality, Liturgy and Religion points to a couple articles about Harry Potter and the Communion of the Saints. * Over at Kesher talk there’s an interesting commentary on “Manly Virtues.” * And speaking of
Featured FAQs of a Theologian: Can you explain to me what prayer means to a christian? I’ve had for sometime the idea to write posts based on questions I am asked via email or questions that people ask google and somehow land on my site. In fact I’ve been compiling some questions since early this summer on my Theo.edit (my wiki). Thus I
Featured Training Violent Behaviors: Media and the Message of Desensitization I had the opportunity to read a fascinating and very thought provoking book this past week called, “Transforming the Powers: Peace, Justice and the Domination System.” The basic idea of the book is taken from Walter Wink’s idea of the “powers and principalities” which consist of the “spiritual dynamics
Featured Alasdair Macintyre On Rights and Protest: Are We Just Talking To Ourselves? In keeping with the conversation at bay, MacIntyre’s words on protest are fitting. In his seminal work “After Virtue” he focuses on arguing how and why the “Enlightenment project” failed. Essentially it is because the modern period has stripped away from humanity any social context in which to couch
Uncategorized The Yes and No of Protest: When Symbols Don’t Align With Our Reality Much gets said about protest, some people like protesting and fill their lives with it, some have extremely negative feelings and argue it’s a waste of time and something Christians should not do. I’d like to briefly discuss what it means to be focused on the “Yes” of
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree October 6, 2006 Here we find ourselves finally in October, my favorite month of the year (mainly for selfish reasons). Some good things about October are the fall (which typically means leaves turning beautiful vibrant colors), cleveland browns football, oktoberfests, halloween, (my birthday), and the return of cooler weather. However, in LA there
Blog Entries An Iraq Exit Strategy Some Ideas On How to Leave From Jim Wallis While at the politics and spirituality conference we got to hear Wallis, Richard Rohr and Anne Lamott speak. They were also given time after their talks to answer questions from them audience. This gave a bit of a chance for the rest of us to interact a little with the
Featured Finding the Right Bike for Your Commute I mentioned earlier that I recently bought a new [used] bike and I debated on whether to say anything about it here, I wasn’t really sure anyone would care. But because I love bikes and blogging so much I finally broke down and thought I’d give a few
Blog Entries I Finally Got My NRSV Pocket Bible Evangelicals like there bibles, and in this way I am absolutely no different than any of my other evangelical brothers and sisters. Now my views on inspiration, interpretation, and the canon span the theological spectrum but that’s for another day. I’ve got a few bibles more than I
Featured An Ordinary Revolution You Probably Shouldn’t Miss I just finished Shane Claiborne’s Irresistible Revolution,” which is the first assignment for the class I am teacher’s aid for and I thought it was a fantastic read. In fact, if you’ve got nothing better to do in the next thirty minuets go out and pick up
Featured A Quarter With Alasdair MacIntyre Yesterday I started class. Now it’s official, I have been a doctoral student for 1 day, and at the moment I am still pretty excited about this new adventure (and also unsure, I must confess). I am taking a class with Dr. Nancey Murphy where we will be studying
