Blog Entries A Plug for Fuller’s Newspaper – The Semi Mike Work and I both got our start in the world of publishing today (he may have written before though I don't remember), both of us have articles on technology and the church. See Fuller's Newspaper for a Download of the article.
Featured Humility and The Lord’s Prayer: April Ping Homily This is my ping homily for April, there are still two weeks left for all of you to participate. If you are interested jump over to Shawn’s explanation of the project. Since I am in the process of thinking and writing about the Lord’s Prayer as a paradigm
Blog Entries Moving Yet Again! Emily and I just signed a new lease today and so for our fourth summer in a row we will be moving…sigh. It’s odd how much we dislike moving because we seem to do it so much! We are pretty excited about this move for many reasons: one
Featured Lecture Today and Intro to The Lord’s Prayer Today is my first chance to lecture in a classroom setting. As I have been preparing over the last couple weeks, I have found that I will never get it the way I want it. I have been writing and rewriting parts of it for the last three days and
Blog Entries The Wits End Today, Emily got to her conference a little late due to my slightly handicap when it comes to reading directions. Going north, when you’re supposed to be headed south never gets you where you’re going very fast. After I dropped her off I returned to the hotel, and
Blog Entries San Diego I am looking forward to this upcoming weekend because Emily and I are traveling down to San Diego this evening and we are going to stay until Saturday afternoon. I think it will be a lot of fun, not only is San Diego cool, but I have some work I
Featured Hey Man Slow Down: The Art of Friendship Behind The Screen IV I need to finish this series of four articles on Technology and how its affecting our lives in positive and negative ways before it gets away from me. When I first sat down to write about all of this it was because of a couple of prompts; my reading the
Blog Entries Why Quaker 2.0? I’ve written my first post as a contributing member of the Quaker 2.0 team today, if you’re interested in what’s going on over there here is the link. The main point of what I write there is that we as the Friends’ movement are in a
Featured O Gracious Light: When Light and Darkness Find Each Other You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house (Matthew 5:14-15).??? Emily is returning home tomorrow, she
Blog Entries Two Invitation For Everyone I wanted to make two invitations to anyone who happens upon my blog in the coming weeks: 1. Shawn over at LoFi Tribe has announced the theme for April's Ping Homily Series, its on Humility. We'd both really like to see more involvement on this great
Blog Entries March Ping Homily Selection I just learned that I was selected to be the winner of the March Ping Homily Book Prize with what I wrote on courage from a non-violent Christian position. Shawn at LoFi Tribe is hosting these as a part of the 9rules religion group idea that was started a few
Featured How to Blog for Theology and Religion I’ve been thinking for sometime about doing a how-to for theological and religious blogs as blogging is something I’ve grown increasingly interested in and challenged by. There are many how-to blogs, and websites that cover tips on blogging – here are a few that I love to read regularly:
Blog Entries A Couple Links for the Week Here are a few sites I think are a must see this week: Nik from Scarylittlemonkey.com has come up with a new scary theme – in fact its pretty freakin amazing and though its not available for download its worth your browsing pleasure. When you get a chance you need
Featured Hey Man Slow Down: Silence and Noise – Sharing Space with Technology III I've been carrying on for the past week about slowing down in an age of technology; whether this is something we really need to do, why and how we might go about doing it are all questions I am looking at. In the last article I talked about
Blog Entries Peace Parade or Protest March? There was a church this Sunday, so I heard, that had on its billboard outside the title to this year’s Palm Sunday message: Peace Parade or Protest March???? Now granted we go to a fairly radical??? church if when you hear the word Christian you think, Pat Robertson, George
Blog Entries Robert Gonzalez on Barclay Press I've been following Robert Gonzalez's blog for awhile now, I think I came across him originally through the good ol' QuakerQuaker . He is a Quaker who lives in San Gabriel, and I really enjoy and appreciate his voice and ideas. For the next two weeks
Blog Entries Looking for A Google Analytics Code? Nik from, Scarylittlemonkey is giving away his google analytics invitation code for free to the 46 commentor, drop by and see if you can get it, and no double triple commenting.
Blog Entries Rain in Los Angeles (What More of a Headline Do You Need?) I love it and hate it when it rains in LA, being from good ol' Canton Ohio I am fully aware of what life submerged by water looks and feels like. So when it rains here I am not so surprised by this moist substance falling from the sky,
Featured Hey Man Slow Down: Multitasking and Issues in Simplicity II Two weeks back we received our weekly issue of Time Magazine; the cover instantly caught my eyes. It's a picture I almost wanted to find myself wrapped up in. The title of the article asks a pertinent question for today's technologically immersed generation, “Are Kids Too
Blog Entries All New About Page! Wow – the updates keep rolling in – now there is an all new about page, as if you care?!
Featured Hey Man Slow Down: The Speed of Life I have been reflecting back on the speed that life has taken on. All of life’s distractions, duties, and the pace at which it seems like we must get things done has been pulling me away from the simple and quiet life that one needs in order to maintain
Blog Entries Immigration Events: A Day Without A Mexican Dr. Juan Martinez from Fuller Theological Seminary, and head of the hispanic studies program, told a couple of us the other day that the Latino faith community in LA is planning a day of prayer and fasting this Sunday April 2. There is supposed to be another school walk out
Featured Thoughts on Immigration, Vegetarianism, and James Cone Here is a buffet bar of thoughts from this past weekend: 1. On Immigration The struggle for Illegal Immigrants right’s will be, as the LA Times wrote yesterday, the Civil Rights Struggle of our generation. There have been staged walkouts and then this past Saturday a 500,000 person
Uncategorized A Simple and Silent Worship Service Last night we hosted our small group over at our house. I was in charge of planning for the evening so I pieced together a worship/prayer/contemplative time that included bits and pieces of prayers from a Celtic prayer book I have, the Book of Common Prayer, Quaker queries
Blog Entries My Very Own WordPress Favicon! So I've been meaning to for sometime figure out this whole favicon thing – and today I had a little bit of time and had a breakthrough (a more meaningful thing to breakthrough would have been better but I'll take what I can get). After looking for
