Paul has created a great web app called flickrslidr that let’s you embed flickr images into you blog. Here got the idea after writing this tutorial about embedding slideshows. Anyways, I’ve been wanting to post the images from my UK travels thus far, and thought this would be
Continue reading →I thought I’d do the DDF a little differently today. Click on the picture below to see a bigger version with links on it. Technorati Tags: dress down fridays
Continue reading →Accepting the whole of a tradition and not just the parts I found Slavoj Zizeks opening to his book The Fragile Absolute, to be instructive for a present day study of Quaker theology. He begins by presenting the challenge of two choices: How is a Marxist to counter all
Continue reading →I upgraded my wordpress files this morning and it went pretty well, except that the theme I was using “Subtle” isn’t quite working under the new widget framework of version 2.2 — please excuse the basic stripped down look untidyness of the site until I figure out a plan
Continue reading →My good friend Shawna from Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) sent this to a bunch of us the other day intimating at Convergent Friends being much older than we thought. A conference of Friends in 1970, which represented 24 American YMs and had a 135 in attendance, gathered in Saint Louis
Continue reading →I’ve been meaning to comment on Jarrod McKenna’s thought worthy post which looks at the “Emerging Peace Church Movement” or what he likes to call “Open Anabaptism.” Through his various travels and meeting with all kinds of Christians McKenna writes, What people might not be aware of is
Continue reading →jez and wess looking through the ‘young quakers’ t-shirt … what larks! Originally uploaded by Simon Latham. Since arriving in England I’ve been having a blast. There are at least two things that have made it fun so far: new friends and new words. In this picture you can see
Continue reading →Tony Jones, recently discussed a paper he read at Wheaton. In the paper he talks about the prospect of being an “anti-theologian,” (a designation I too find attractive) and orthodoxy as something that exists within particular events but not as an objective reality out there somewhere. I found some troubling
Continue reading →Here’s another installment of Dress Down Friday! Another Radio DJ, Rush Limbaugh, is in trouble for being racially insensitive. He’s recently aired a racially charged song slamming Barack Obama. The Guardian reports, Limbaugh, whose rightwing talk show is one of the most listened to in the US, has
Continue reading →This is something I’d normally post in my dress down Friday’s but since it will be over by then I’d thought I should post it now. Britain’s Guardian news paper has a nice write up about Gilbert and George’s latest piece called “Planed.” Gilbert and
Continue reading →[This is cross-posted from the BYM blog] In the context of talking about Quaker work, one of our sessions yesterday, something was said about loving ourselves before we can love others. In this dualistic perspective the inward comes before the outward and there is no room for a circular interplay
Continue reading →Well this week’s been really good, and really busy. I’ve only got a couple treats for this week’s dress down friday, but nonetheless they should be fun. If you don’t know what to buy your Uncle for his Birthday and he happens to be Catholic you
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