Featured Reflections on Evangelicalism Part I Reflection on the State of Evangelicalism At Fuller we obviously talk a lot about American Culture, fundamentalism’s effects on American Evangelicalism and American Politics and the plight of Christianity in general. These tend to be radically diverse conversations, represented by a variety of voices within the student body. What
Blog Entries drew girton Drew’s new blog is right here – check it out: wrestling with truth technorati tags: blogs, drew_girton
Blog Entries XFBA in Rep Again. There is a new Canton Rep Article on the XFBA scam cantonrep.comtechnorati tags: xfba, church_scams
Blog Entries Presenting: Letters Home I would like to announce that Emily, my wife, has now published her blog and is working on keeping it up to date. Its called Letters Home, and in it she will be wrestling with being an 9th and 10th Grade English teacher in an urban school, as well as
Featured quakers, sacraments and practices AJ Schwanz has once again written a thoughtful post about Quakers ideas of the sacraments. She’s been reading Bolger’s book and this of course brings up many questions about the use of sacraments for old and new faith communities. Many Emerging Churches do away with the wafer and
Blog Entries Xzuberant faith makes Canton Repository **Looking for the XFBA Archive Page, it’s been moved. Look here. Todd Porter sports writer for the Canton Repository wrote two articles concerning the Xzuberant Faith Basketball Association today. Article One Article Two You will most likely have to register for an account, but its not too hard. Here
Uncategorized writing letters with bread for the world’s holly hight Last night our mennonite/quaker small group wrote letters to our congressional representatives concering hunger issues in the world. It was my first time to participate in this kind of advocacy and I thought that it was incredible. It only took about 15 min. to write the letters, and I
Blog Entries Emerging Church Book Review and Barclay Press [this post was edited to reflect the publication of the review on BP]. This weekend I finished two big tasks I’ve been working on for a while. For one thing, I completed my book review for Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibb’s book, Emerging Churches which is now published
Uncategorized a disappearing act? xfba comments Further investigation into the XFBA matter leaves us with these points: 1. The XFBA.org website is being dismantled (either that or edited to reflect the major changes in the organization). The front page no longer leads to any links into the information on their website, you have to access
Blog Entries akron quakers bottom line – I am going to join I don’t care what I have to do. Here is a link to the IBL.
Blog Entries “Ground Hog Day” on Ground Hog Day Yesterday I had this stunning revelation. Like in the movie with Bill Murray, Ground Hog Day, I realized my days were repeating themselves. All day on feb. 1 (Wed) I was convinced it was Tuesday, even to the point of telling my friend I could not go to a concert
Uncategorized lifeasmission.com Over at lifeasmission.com, JR writes a well thought out and well defined review of George Barna’s revolution. In wondering whether he is really a revoltionary or not, JR discovers that Barna’s own conclusions are still to individualist and based too much on statistics and not enough on
Uncategorized when the buzzer sounds – xfba basketball Ok – I’ve been holding my metaphoric tongue but there is a news flash concerning the XFBA (xzuberant faith basketball association). I’ve had tons of comments and hits of the blog today and this deems posting. largest set of comments another set of comments Here is what we know
Uncategorized learning that makes for practice Ryan and Eddie’s class started last night, MC535 “Emerging Churches,” of which I will assist in the grading and ideas-sharing of the course. Its fun to be in class while standing on the other side of the desk so to speak. Stitting there last night, instead of frantically trying
Featured first annual blog-party JR and I have begun what may be an on going techie/creative evening of blogging, and working on our sites. Here’s photo from the night. Technorati Tags: friends, blogging
Blog Entries from the bolg blog I wanted to thank Ryan for the nice thoughts. I’ve learned a lot from working with him and am really looking forward to the possibility of him being my PhD mentor. The thought of studying with someone I know, and someone who I share many ideas and passions with
Blog Entries saturday evening raviolis tonight emily and I made homeade ravioli from a jamie oliver recipe, it was fantastic. here’s the recipe from his book “The Naked Chef Takes Off” (Jamie Oliver) 8oz potatoes peeled 1 1/2 asparagus, bases trimmed and stalks peeled 1 clove garlic – chop it olive oil salt and
Blog Entries george marsden at fuller We went to see George Marsden speak tonight on “Fundamentalism and Contemporary Culture” at Fuller Wednesday night. George Marsden, teaches church history at Notre Dame and has made a name for himself by writing book on fundamentalism and its affects on the church in America. One of the main points
Featured the media, culture and the past year #1 Well I must say I’ve been happy to see all the commenting and interest into the things that have been written about as of late, and I encourage the discussions and comments to continue until things are seen more clearly. I make myself available as a resource for questions
Uncategorized out in the open Well I have felt a little reluctant to say much more, the comments are coming pretty quickly, many hits are happening on my blog, and so its kind of doing its own thing, but then there is more that has come to light concerning this whole matter involving the XFBA
Uncategorized encouraging comments about the league Here is new, and much more encouraging information, creating more accuracy with statements said here on this site and in other places as well as easing my mind a little. These are all quoted directly from sources that have contacted me directly (nothing’s been changed): To summarize, to this
Uncategorized theological reflections on xzuberant faith here is a letter I have written and emailed (xfmpstreetball@yahoo.com as well as xfmag@yahoo.com) to the leaders of the XFBA. Michael Heard, Gregory Railey and Jevon Blake, In this whole expose of trying to discover what is true and false about this basketball league I began
Uncategorized Update #4 From a close source: 1) They never physically were allowed to hold a contract. One day it was read to them, then at the “signing” they were read something from the contract, then each team went up and signed the contracts (with no time to read them). There was no
Uncategorized Update on Scam #3 This is from a friend looking into the situation. “I called Creflo Dollar’s organization. They have never heard of any of these guys, their league, their church – they have had no contact with them and know nothing about them. I also contacted Canton Better Business Bureau and they’ve
Uncategorized Free Web 2.0 Music Software Heck Yeah. Webjay – Playlist Community Also See Last.FM and Pandora.com These are all great ways to listen to music free. I prefer Last.fm to the others but Pandora is really nice as well.
