Uncategorized How to Setup Your Blog (WordPress) For Students This was cross-posted over on Ryan Bolger’s class blog, which I wanted to announce anyway. If you’re interested in seeing what we’ll be up to this quarter jump on over there and check it out. I am looking forward to the class I am a teacher’s
Blog Entries Smplr — A Beautiful and Simple Homepage Search Nik, top notched web-designer from Scary Little Monkey, has created a smplr. A simple homepage search engine that sends queries to google. So why use it instead of google? Because it looks ten times better and it loads faster. So not only is it nice to look at and it
Featured Some (Borrowed) Quaker Queries on Simplicity Awhile back I visited a nearby Quaker meeting with Robin and Chris while they were in town. It was my first experience in an unprogrammed meeting and I really appreciated my experience there and it got me thinking more about queries. One thing I have always loved about Quaker practice
Featured Daily Scribe Jamboree September 24, 2006 The Daily Scribe has grown out of it’s wordpress skin and so things a getting changed around a bit over at the top religious aggregator site on the web, so go by and check out some of the changes. Here are a few links from this past week, which
Featured Moving Our Conversations Beyond Just Talk: Affirming Practices in Others My last post about Jim Wallis’ new blog has generated an important discussion that’s got me thinking not only about the leaders we support but also what things about those leaders we support and where we draw the line (this post may not make a lot of sense unless
Blog Entries (Untitled) I’ve liked the stuff that Sojourners has been putting out as long as I have known about them, they focus on many issues that face the church from a position that tries to bring together conservative and liberal Christianity. This has been something Jim Wallis has focused on repeatedly,
Blog Entries Live Update – Now Finished This morning I came over to Fuller’s Coffee Shop, made myself a mug of Cafe’ au Lait, plugged in my iPod and am listening to Starflyer 59’s new album, My Island. I’ve cracked open mywebsite code, uploaded the bleeding-edge version of Subtle, and am doing a few
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree September 15, 2006 This week has been a busy one for me, I had a bunch of homework to turn in today but I always have a little time to browse a few blogs. Here are some noteworthy posts for the week… A few posts from The Daily Scribe: Wildhunt wonders if there
Featured The Beatitudes Society @ Fuller Seminary I must continue with my thoughts regarding this past weekend, there is so much to talk about! And in order to do that I thought I’d start with a little about The Beatitudes Society and what it is. A while back in the spring I think it was, I
Blog Entries What Do I Mean by Small Churches? There was a question about what I meant in terms of a small church from a commenter the other day, I thought I’d address here. In response, when I think of a “small church” I think of a place that you are able to know and be known by
Featured Hauerwas and a Faith and Practice for Emerging Churches Today I spent time reading a dissertation by a now-graduated Fuller student named Brad Kallenberg. And I found something interesting that points toward a strength within Quaker theory and how it might help other young churches.??? In his (dishearteningly thick) dissertation Changing the subject in postmodernity : Narrative ethics and philosophical
Featured Do Not Be Afraid… I spent this past weekend at the Politics and Spirituality conference with the Beatitudes Society both of which I have much to write about and will do so over the next week or two. But in this moment I continue to think of this day as the anniversary of September
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree: September 9, 2006 Here are some interesting links from The Daily Scribe from this past week… Crookedshore writes about Luke 19 – the Parable of the Minas. He asks concerning the third servant: The question for me is why he failed to put this money to work? And what has this to do with
Featured Things I Value in A Church: A Confession of Faith? After writing three posts about things to look for when church shopping, I got to thinking about what things people would be looking for when they asked those questions. I am of the opinion that we all have certain things we look for when trying to find a church. So
Blog Entries In My Alternate Life… Emily likes to play this game where we talk about what we’d be doing in alternate lives. We went camping this past week, and she asked all of us there what we’d be doing in our alternate lives. Well as these things go I like to play around
Featured How Do We Look For The Theology of A Church? Part III Many of us have visited multiple churches in our lives, some stand out more and other’s we probably don’t remember much about. For many people what stands out most is what happens during the service, the kind of preaching, what was preached, the music, how the sacraments were
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree 09012006 This week there were some great articles I wanted to point out from the gang at the daily scribe. * Camassia has a very thoughtful post on that fits well with my posts on church shopping as she writes out some ideas on how churches can welcome strangers better. * Over at
Featured More Questions to Ask When Church Shopping: Part II Continuing on from the first post in this series we will look at what are some things to look for in when we are church shopping and only have a brief time to get to know a little about the community we are checking out. (Also note there are many
Featured How Do We Look For the Theology of A Church? Part I Emily and I are back from our 2 week vacation in the Midwest. We had a lovely time seeing family in Friends in Ohio, and Nashville. And we thoroughly enjoyed our anniversary which we spent in Ludington Michigan at a great Bed and Breakfast called Cartier Mansion. I will post
Blog Entries Daily Scribe Jamboree 082506 Here are some fancy links for your blog reading pleasure. Nathan writes a book review on A Heretics Guide to Eternity??? by Spencer Burke and Fuller Prof. Barry Taylor. He sums the book up with this sentence, Religion declares that we are separated from God, that we are outsiders. Grace
Featured The Rise of Christian Terrorism: Fear Based Religion I admit that can be hard on the church from time to time, but this is in part because I believe that we have such a grave responsibility to bear peace and reconciliation to the world. In this way I tend to enjoy people like Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder,
Blog Entries Five Year Anniversary August 18 On Friday, August 18th, Emily and I will celebrate 5 years of marriage. We are driving up to Ludington Michigan where we’ve rented a little cottage on the Lake for a little peace and rest. We’re both really happy to have some time to ourselves but also sad
Blog Entries Scribe Jamboree:August 16 2006 Here are few good reads from the folks over at the Daily Scribe. From “A People So Bold” a post about Reinhold Niebuhr‘s stance on nationalism. Quoting Niebuhr, “The gospel cannot be preached with truth and power if it does not challenge the pretensions and pride, not only of
Featured Books For An Introduction To Studying Bible and Theology My housemate Chase and I were having lunch the other day and we started talking about important books that we would use if we were going to teach Bible and Theology students. Now granted we’re both from more of an Evangelical stream of Christianity so I recognize that some
Blog Entries Ceasefire Campaign – Petition to Put Pressure on Leaders Every now and then I like to have little bits of activism promoted through my site, ones that I feel are not too weird or are doing something worthwhile. Kent, PhD student in Ethics and Mennonite, sent me a link to the Ceasefire Campaign and I think it fits the
