Featured Theology on Blogs Continued: Constructive Snippets, Cohesive Thoughts A couple days back I wrote a short entry on the fact that theology is always on the move, and must be adjusted to the times in order that it makes sense of larger more agreed upon truths within our local contexts. Because of this I think it would be
Featured Why Theology Should Be Written On Blogs and Wikis I’ve begun reading more about Stanley Hauerwas in my attempts to find theologians who are influential and brilliant, yet challenge the status quo with their own lives and thinking. One thing I really appreciate about Hauerwas that he focuses on theology that is useful for communities of faith – he
Featured Liturgical Prayer Based on the Lord’s Prayer As I near the end of my series on the Lord’s Prayer I want to turn now to a small liturgy I’ve written that is based off the Lord’s Prayer and the conclusions I’ve arrived at through this series. This liturgy was made to help conceptualize
Featured The Daily Scribe: New Religion Blog Community and Aggregator I have received the priviledge to join Shawn Anthony from Lo-Fi Tribe in a new venture called the Daily Scribe. Shawn, formerly a member of the largely popular 9rules blogging community, has decided to leave his post there as religion community leader to start his own venture at Scribe. Because
Biking I Think I Did A Mean Thing to Your H2 Okay so there isn’t much of a secret about how I feel about environmental issues, I think especially Christians should be concerned with how we care for creation. We have a responsibility to take care of what God left in our stewardship, this is why Emily and I do
Blog Entries Tyrants and Tax Collectors – I Can’t Get Enough of That Blogging Love So as some of you have noticed over the past 6-8 months I have gradually and purposefully moved away from writing personal stuff and have moved more towards content focused posts here on Gathering in Light. So like many bloggers I know, who love to write, I’ve decided to
Featured Matthew 6:10-11 The Kingdom of God and Prayer for Bread Continuing my series on the Lord’s Prayer and how it functions as both a mission statement and community formating guide for the churchh. We now direct our attention to further exposition of the prayer itself – this post in particular deals with Matthew 6:10-11. Matthew 6:10 Your Kingdom
Featured Emerging Church Resources: A Beginners Reference Guide When people find out that I am one of Ryan Bolger’s understudies I get asked what I think of the emerging church and frequently what resources are good for people interested in finding out more about the Emerging church. In hopes of making a useful guide I’ve created
Featured Putting Ads on Blogs: And Why I Can’t Do It Anymore I’ve debated over the topic of whether I should have advertisements on ol’ gathering in light since I starting using wordpress back in February. Some of you have noticed the on and off frequency of this site having ads, this was because I was trying to see if I
Featured NT Wright – Retelling Stories: Alternate Histories and the Lord’s Prayer Mike Work, writing on his class blog recently, wrote a great short post about Jesus’ way of being a storyteller. He writes, In his [NT Wright] words, Jesus made a regular practice of retelling the story of Israel in such a way as to subvert other tellings, and to invite
Blog Entries World Hunger and Sustainable Eating It’s important for me to point out a fellow Fuller PhD student, Russ Kirby, who has written a stellar argument for having a sustainable Diet. Russ, a practical theologian, says, If there is enough food to fully feed the world, then why are 840 million people still literally starving
Featured Reflecting On Your Influences Every now and then it is a good idea to consider the influences you have in your life, maybe a lull in grace??? as Patrick has called it, is a perfect time. I first thought I would make a top three list of four different categories; books, music, movies, and
Blog Entries Sometimes We All Blackout Lovedrug, a band some friends of mine are in, are coming into town on Saturday to play at the Knitting Factory; a line to one of their songs is the title of this post and the current state of my life. Sometimes I get lost in everything. It’s not
Featured Qaddish and The Lord’s Prayer: Jesus’ Subversive Tactics In this continuing series on the Lord’s Prayer I am looking at the Jewish prayer known as the Qaddish, and comparing it to the Lord’s Prayer. When we compare these two prayers we see themes arise that are particularly interesting when we consider that Christ’s prayer is
Featured Bike to Work Day: Communities and Sustainable Life [Updated] Thursday, May 18th was Bike to Work Day. The city of LA and its surrounding suburbs participated in various activities and sponsored prizes in hopes of encouraging people to ride their bikes to work more often. I participated in Pasadena’s Bike to Work Day and their sponsored events.
Blog Entries (Untitled) Chris and Amy over at Shooting The Kids wrote on Photos For Your Childs Safety. I wanted to give props to them for pointing out Brian’s great flickr site that seeks to help find missing children. They have a great short interview with him that let’s you
Blog Entries Blog Party With Friends Our third ever “blog party” to happen at our house saw a radical boost in attendance! For the first two gatherings, JR and I were the only ones to come. However, this time we had 5 bloggers present. My wife, Emily, decided to join us this time around and although
Biking Bike to Work Week This coming week, May 15-19, is bike to work week. I have already expressed my disappointment in not being able to participate because of my accident, but I thought I could pass along some links and what-not about biking. There are some great resources on the web about getting started
Featured The Paternoster – A Formative Christian Practice for All Followers I’d like to frame the next group of featured” posts that will be showing up here on gathering in light. I will be continuing to post my thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer, and how it can and should be used as a missional discipleship tool in churches from
Biking (Untitled) Since I normally love to write about my adventures in biking here in the city, I figured this post fits into that category. [Those of you with weak stomaches may wish to tune out at this time] Thorn and I paid the price yesterday afternoon for a lady’s indecision;
Blog Entries Earth Day Footprint Quiz I don’t often dedicate posts to links, but Holly showed us this link at small group and I think its something worth checking out Earth Day Footprint Quiz. I am interesting in hearing how people do on this and what they think of the test. Are there important questions
Blog Entries Blog Party #3 This Monday Night, May 15th, from 7:30-9pm I am inviting those of you who are free to join us in blog party #3. There are a few things you need to bring, a writing prompt to work on, any questions you may have about the technical aspects of blogging
Featured Left Behind Eternal Forces – Violence for Christians Today in the Los Angeles Times, there is an article about a new Christian” video game: Left Behind: Eternal Forces. The game aims to make a broadly appealing video game, similar to Grand Theft Auto; it is a real-time” strategy game that features plenty of biblical smiting, albeit with high-tech
Featured A Short Prayer Service with The Lord’s Prayer Getting back on track of doing some work on the Lord’s Prayer I thought I would offer a simple prayer service we used for small group a while back. This could work as a personal time for reflection or for small groups, and can be changed and modified to
Featured How to Get Started Blogging This is a second post on blogging, one that is more directed toward beginners (and is much shorter). I’ve decided to write this as a resource for friends and the students I TA for who are interested in starting out as bloggers. I’ve written a very lengthy post
