Featured The New Worlds We Stand Before There is good news I can’t help but share, yesterday I opened my email to read, Wess, I’ve been given the go-ahead to officially welcome you into the PhD program…I’ve been assigned as your mentor, so I’m thrilled to be working with you for the
Blog Entries Using Rojo For RSS Feeds and Educational Use I switched over from bloglines to rojo about 3 months ago to handle all of my blog feeds. I did this mainly because it has a simple and easy to view user-interface and because of its tagging capilities. Since I first came over the rojo team has continued to develop
Featured 9rules Religion Community Ping Homily on Courage Shawn over at LO-FI Tribe has put up a Ping Homily??? for March. He writes a short homily and then asks other to join in on writing about that theme. This month he writes about Courage and I am struck by his brief yet powerful message, exclaiming that we know
Uncategorized A Nose Dive – Site Down Today gatheringinlight.com took a nose dive. While working on editing my new theme supported by Eric Taylor’s K2 Reloaded I decided to clear out some of my old plugins I never use, unfortunately you cannot delete active wordpress plugins, you must deactivate them first or else your site
Blog Entries Tom Fox Found Dead Tom Fox, a Quaker and a member of the Christian Peacemaker Team was found dead yesterday in Iraq. My only connection to him is in the Spirit of God, but he stands as a hero in my mind and one who lived out the call of the Gospel to be
Blog Entries Some Web 2.0 for Educational Technology I’ve been continuing to try and learn (and keep up with) new technologies I think will be useful in the classroom, as I do I post them on my resource page for such items. There are a few I wanted to point to for use in the technologically aware
Uncategorized Kicking it Quaker Style Emily and I had a blast this weekend up in Berkeley, a place we could easily imagine living. We went up for Quaker Heritage Day, a one-day conference held at Berkeley Friends Church (part of F.U.M) where we talked about the future of the Friends church. The main
Featured Evangelicalism and Subcultures: Part V I’ve been writing on Evangelicalism over the past few weeks partially as a theological exercise and partially to work out a my own critiques and vision for this movement. I would not consider myself a spokesperson for the movement, nor do I want to be, but I do recognize
Blog Entries Ryan Bolger on NPR’s Airtalk If you get a chance check out Ryan Bolger’s Interview on 89.3 KPCC | AirTalk hosted by Larry Mantle. Find March 2nd, and it is under the heading Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures.??? Not only is it a really good interview with Ryan, but its a nice brief
Blog Entries This Month on BarclayPress.com A couple weeks back I wrote a short post about my review on Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs’s book Emerging Churches for BarclayPress.com. For the whole month of march BP will be hosting a discussion on the book, so I invite all those who faithfully read this blog
Blog Entries Prosecutor calls foul on XFBA A continuing saga on the XFBA. Today’s article at cantonrep.com story by Todd Porter Warrants were issued Tuesday for the arrest of Michael Willis Heard and Gregory Railey Jr. after City Prosecutor Frank Forchione charged each with four counts of theft by deception.
Blog Entries Bo Bannister Brilliance: Gender Inclusive Pronoun Revealed Bo Bannister Finally Reveals the Gender Inclusive Pronoun That’s right Bo’s stroke of brilliance should not be ignored: We all know that we need a gender neutral/inclusive/3rd person/singular/human pronoun besides “it”. We have been waiting and waiting for the grammarians to introduce a new
Uncategorized Today’s Article on the XFBA cantonrep.com When marketing staffers asked Heard where the tickets were, they said none existed. They were, in essence, selling tickets to games that never were scheduled because no arenas has been secured. I got fired for asking where were the tickets,??? former marketing staffer Sheneva Williams said. I don
Featured Critiques and Possibilities: Evangelicalism Part IV This is the continuation of a larger discussion I am working on, here is part I, part II, and part III. Spiritually Transformed Life #5 – The spiritually transformed life has become for many the end all be all of Christian existence. Of course again there is nothing unbiblical about a
Uncategorized XFBA Flyer – Have You Seen This? Take a look at this. Its really what it looks like. And the XFBA make WKYC Television here is the link. Technorati Tags: church_issues, church_scam, xfba, xzuberant
Featured How a Small Blog Made a Big Difference The Canton Repository’s Todd Porter has published two new articles on the Xzuberant Faith Basketball scam that happened in northeastern Ohio. For other stories from the Canton Rep and the work I’ve done on the situation visit my XFBA resource page. 1. Father of XFBA administrator reaches out
Blog Entries LawSchoolBlog.org: How To Ruin Your Law Career LawSchoolBlog.org: How To Ruin Your Law Career in three easy steps. read this from the bottom up. its a good laugh.
Blog Entries Quaker Heritage Day Thanks to Robin M, a fellow Quaker blogger, Emily and I found out about Quaker Heritage Day and will be attending. I am excited to see that Peggy Senger Parsons will be speaking as I have enjoyed reading her thoughts on her blog. &
Blog Entries (Untitled) Hunger for Justice » 8 causes of global hunger Last night, I went to an amazing presentation at Holy Family Church in South Pasadena. They are hosting a series called Hunger and Hope in Our World: Sudan to Southern California.”
Blog Entries Mac Attack – Ibook Battery Replacement I needed to buy a new battery for my ibook a few weeks back, because the one that came with the laptop has dwindled down to only holding a charge for about 20 minuets. A 20 min. life for a laptop battery pretty much sucks so I went to the
Blog Entries my first music video directing debut Richard Kentopp, a good friend of mine and student at Fuller, is the the singer and songwriter for a band called Books Died On. Some have considered it Baroque Pop, Indie-Tronic (electronic indie) or Grind Core; Richard calls them “rock, post hardcore,” I just call them one good ol’ time.
Blog Entries Tax Breaks Given on Gas-Guzzling SUVs Tax Breaks Given on Gas-Guzzling SUVs – Yahoo! News LOS ANGELES – New tax breaks are available to anyone who wants to help the environment by purchasing fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. But if owners of small businesses really want to save money, they can get even bigger federal tax breaks by buying the
Featured Critiques and Possibilities: Evangelicalism Part III I’ve been working on a series of posts concerning Evangelicalism and when I get to it Quakerism. Visit my “Series on Evangelicalism” under the Featured page for the rest of the posts on this topic. In the last post I explained two different definitions which arise, the sociological standpoint
Featured What Evangelicalism is: Part II I have a disclaimer to make, I’ve been working on these posts for the past week, and as of last night I’ve had to rewrite and change course for this discussion. This is largely due to a conversation that I had with two good friends James Pitts and
