Featured What Are Your Favorite Quaker Books? I just finished reading Martin’s post about him finally finishing John Woolman’s Journal and it got me thinking about how I enjoyed Woolman’s journal so much. Then I started thinking more about books (not something that’s all that hard to do, really.) This reminded me to
Featured Queries from the Gathering Well in short our meeting last night was wonderful, there was a group of about 13 adults, 4 children (and a few lovely mennonite-volunteers) and I think it would be safe to say we all enjoyed ourselves and learned a lot from each other. For now I thought I would
Featured John Steinbeck’s East of Eden A long while back I finished East of Eden, a Novel I’d been working on for months. I wanted to write out some quotes and thoughts I had while I was reading it, because it has such a profound effect on me, but I never got around to posting
Featured Scribe Jamboree for Friday August 4 In an attempt to get more connected with our friends within the Daily Scribe blogging community we’ve decided to post links to other’s blogs weekly (for me it will probably be less occasional than that). We’re calling this the The Daily Scribe Jamboree, and we will be
Featured Reflections on Doing Quaker Research For class we were asked to write a short reflection on our spiritual journey and how it’s led us to doing the kinds of dissertations we’re preparing for. I thought I would post it mainly because I don’t think I’ve written much about my personal journey,
Featured Schedule for Convergent Friends Gathering August 5th 2006 Chris and I powered out a schedule of sorts for this coming saturday so that we have something to work off of. I have also discussed this with Robin so I am confident that our gathering will be fruitful and a lot of fun. The reason we planned something out
Featured Research Design – Some Preliminary Questions Today we spent 8:30-5 minus 1.5 hours for lunch talking about what research is, why it’s important, what our research will entail and why we are doing it. It wasn’t a bad day, considering how long the day was I was able to stay pretty well
Featured So School Begins Today: What’s Coming up For Gathering In Light This past friday I finished up one year tenure as Fuller Seminary’s textbook buyer. I began working at the bookstore in the beginning of summer 2005 and shortly thereafter I took over with this full-time position. Well, even though I had a hard time adjusting to full-time work and
Featured Further Perspectives on Relationships and the Web Recently I had a good conversation with a friend about relationships and the web, it seems I get into conversations like this rather often, and in this conversation some new ideas were shaped for me. I thought I’d write some of those ideas out. There are a variety of
Featured Accessorizing the Christian Life: What Would [Can] Jesus Sell? Emily ran across an article in the LA Times about a new ‘Christian’ perfume called ‘Virtuous Woman.’ The article is entitled “What Would Jesus Sell?” The main gist of the column is about a new perfume that is hopefully “enticing enough to provoke questions: ‘What’s that you’re wearing?
Featured Cheap Mac Apps for Students and Teachers I’ve been thinking about compiling one of those “favorite apps” posts that we mac users like to do (too often no doubt). But in keeping with the tradition of mac-lovers I thought it would be good for someone to have a limited list of apps useful for educational purposes
Blog Entries Gathering in Light Goes ‘Subversive’ My buddy, Chris, over at Glued Ideas has created a glorious theme called “subtle” free for all wordpress users. Built into Subtle is an easy way to switch styles, to show the potential of this feature (and because he likes me) he powered out a style all my own called
Featured The Boundaries of Convergent Friends Much discussion has arisen due to the interest groups that Robin, Martin, Liz, AJ and others have been a part of. This along with the “Convergent Friends Gathering” taking place at our house on August 5th has created a lot of excited and an equal amount of criticism. On Behalf
Blog Entries Religious Blogging Community News: The Daily Scribe Goes Official It has been a little while since my blog was accepted into the religious blogging community called The Daily Scribe. There are now over 25 bloggers from various religious backgrounds including, Christianity (including emerging church leaders), Judaism, Unitarianism, Paganism. and religious academics. Well it is finally in official launch mode,
Blog Entries Advertising on Blogs: And So I Take It Back I’ve written a fairly recent article on why I decided to turn the ads off on my site. Well I still agree with what was said there, but I have also found a way to meet in the middle. I have signed up for Text Link Ads a company
Blog Entries A Little Time for Spiritual Inventory With Sequoias Every so often I realize that I’ve been going full speed ahead for too long and need a break, this past week I had one of those realizations. I finally got to the point where I felt like I had been running with my eyes closed, not paying attention
Blog Entries Quaker 2.0 Relaunch and the Convergent Friends Gathering Chris Frazier from Glued Ideas has been working hard on a relaunch design for Quaker 2.0, a collaborative site I co-author for. We had been planning a big launch for Monday July 10th, but he graciously decided to relaunch earlier to correspond with my article being published. Along with
Featured Convergent Friends: Passing on the Faith in the Postmodern World My first in-print article has hit the shelf this month in the July/August edition of the magazine Quaker Life. They were also kind enough to offer an online version of it here is an excerpt: What started causing disquiet in me came after I was assigned to read Walter
Blog Entries The Cross and a Statue I wonder sometimes, whether I’ve gone off the deep end; I find myself criticizing stuff like this so often. There are so many things that get under my skin; I’m a very happy and fairly contented person, really I am. It’s just when I see things like
Featured Spending Money as Christians: A Quaker Perspective Last night Emily and I had the opportunity to hang out with some of our good friends from Ohio and eat some fantastic sushi. During the course of the evening, we encroached on a sometimes-touchy subject (except for this night): How Christians spend their money. The conversation almost always turns
Blog Entries Thomas Merton: A Prayer For the Simplicity of Life and Love This is a prayer from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton that I find to be moving, challenging and intriguing. Take a moment to be drawn in to the Spirit as you read this prayer. “Justify my soul, O God, but also from Your fountains fill my will with
Featured Disadvantage of Blogs as Theological Discourse Because I often write about the benefits of blogging and the great tool I see blogs to be I thought I’d look at it from the other side and investigate some of the disadvantages they come with. There have a been a number of ongoing comments here and its
Blog Entries 2 Posts From the Basement – June I’ve decided, since I have upwards of 330 posts, that I would begin to dig through the basement of my blog and see what I’ve got sitting down there getting musty. It will be interesting to see what I find, among the things you’ll see are my
Blog Entries Christendom is Not Over Yet I was chatting with Shawn who just got back from his trip to St. Louis – on his way back he took a picture of an enormous Cross. The site of it made my stomach turn, domesticating the cross, and then making it the size of a large building strips the
Blog Entries Queries on The Lord's Prayer This Sunday I am leading a discussion on the Lord’s Prayer, basically covering what I’ve been writting about here for the past month or so. In preparing I decided to create a few Queries to help begin the discussion on Prayer and mission. Here are those queries: a.
