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Dress Down Friday | Guest Blogger Josh

Big thanks for Wess letting me co-host Dress Down Friday. I’m not sure if my web musings will be of much interest to some, but here they are nonetheless. Jonathan Brink writes about the podcast swallowing the pastor. Good stuff. And I know of a good podcast to check

The Political

Reader Poll: How Would Non-USA Voters Vote?

Last week I announced who I’m supporting in the presidential race, and while my endorsement obviously didn’t help California, it felt good to bring politics into the subject here. And in keeping with the idea of “gathering” together for common discourse on this site I have question for

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Dress Down Friday | Guest Blogger Ben

I love guest blogging. There’s a strange thrill in writing something that will appear on a site other than my own. Thank you for giving me this honor, Wess. I’ve never written a “Dress Down Friday” so what I’ve got here is a collection of links that

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Unlikely Quaker “Heroes?”

Did you know Annie Oakley was a Quaker? How about Joan Baez and James Dean? Well they were along with a few other surprising people says this Time article… Annie Oakley – “The sharp-shooting female who was rumored to split playing cards edge-wise, then shoot through them a few times before

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The Obama Poster From Obey Giant

(From OBAMA – Obey Giant) I’ve been debating whether to announce my choice for the presidential race, partly because I know we don’t all agree on who’s the best person for the job (and some more strongly than others), and partly because I hadn’t found an opportune

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Quater Six: Halfway Through My Coursework

I can’t believe this is my sixth quarter of studies! I am almost exactly halfway done with my course work. I am just about finished with my 3rd tutorial (on theology of church and culture) and completed my 4,000 pages of reading for the class about 1.5

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What I Keep in My “Bag of Tricks” For School

http://webdev.yuan.cc/flickr/flickrnotes.php?photoid=2217288918 Paul wrote a fun post about the things he carries in his bag for school, and since I have for quite some time carried a “bag of tricks” I thought I’d post what some of those tricks are now. First,

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Hipster Baby Essentials

Our good friend Amy, and Cindy Lou Who’s ((the psydonym for our daughter)) hipster life coach, from over at “i attack with love” created a one of a kind gift for our daughter the other day. You can read about the Hipster Baby care package here. In the Hipster

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Dress Down Friday | Guest Blogger Cate

How flattering to be the first DDF guest blogger! I’m afraid I might not measure up to some of Wess’ posts, but I’ll give it ago. I’m no theologian, so don’t be expecting anything on deconstruction or ‘The Light’; I’m much more interested in pop

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Guest Bloggers on Gathering in Light

All of you regular readers know I’ve been doing a segment called Dress Down Friday. The basic point is to do a little show-n-tell from around the web on fridays. It’s been a way to have a little fun and ease into the weekend. It’s been a

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Does Jesus Have Anything to Do With Our Politics?

Well the political world is in a frenzy these days, everyone’s making speculations, mud is being thrown in every direction and some of us are picking sides (The first and last link are somewhat unrelated to the larger topic, I just posted them for fun). And I keep wondering

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Homo Sacer and Civilized Racism?

In Slavoj Zizek’s book on September 11, “Welcome to the Desert of The Real,” he discusses the idea behind Homo sacer, in order to describe the kind of racism we often find within our society today. The Homo sacer: is an obscure figure of Roman law: a person who

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Dress Down Friday | Save Time In Ultimate Reality

1. AJ asks what do you call your church? It’s a good question. 2. The iPhone popularity is spreading. 3. If you haven’t seen the Moleskine Project website, you really should check it out. There is some great Moleskine artwork there. 4. Finally, Ultimate Reality is here. 5.

Green

Thoughts on Riding a Fixed-Gear Bike

About four years ago I came across a video of some people riding fixed-gear bicycles, and I was instantly intrigued by the simplicity and aesthetics of these single-speed bikes. Since that time I’ve become more interested in biking both as a culture and as a mode of transportation. I’

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New On The Shelf | Corey Beals, Carole Spencer and David Yount

This week I have three new Quaker books I wanted to share with all of you. “Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism” is her dissertation boiled down into book form and promises to be one of the most original historical and theological accounts of Quakerism to date. In this book Spencer

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Four Models of Emerging Churches

I’ve had a lot of vested interest in the emerging church for a number of years now, partly because of my own previous experience in communities that reflected many of the qualities present in Bolger and Gibb’s “Emerging Churches,” and partly because upon reading that book I was

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Sit Back And Relax

Chillin to In Rainbows from wess on Vimeo. This is our first music video, Cindy Lou Who (her decided pseudonym) loves listening to Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” probably cause it’s about the only album we listened to for the past three months.

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Dress Down Friday | No Sweat Chucks, McClendon’s Blog and Evil Hot Dogs

This is another installment of Dress Down Friday, thank you all who sent me links this week, and as always you are free to send me suggestions through the contact page. The picture above is from a hamburg stand back in Ohio, that guy with the sweet crew-cut is me.

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Church in Mission: Five Practices For The Church in the World (pt. 5)

Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five For this last post in my church in mission series I want to explain the five practices that John Howard Yoder offers the church as a means of faithfulness and witness in mission. But first, by way of review,

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Dress Down Friday | Solar-Powered Trees and Australian Art

* I missed the live Radiohead webcast on New Year’s eve, but fortunately enough it’s still online at Current.com and is a joy to listen to. * I stumbled on this cool Mac program called Leap. It’s a finder replacement and pretty high-powered. It was fun to check

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Thanks, Rose Bowl Parade, For The Trash!

As most of you know yesterday was a big day here in Pasadena because of the annual Rose Bowl Parade. People started camping out on Colorado Blvd. 12pm the day before the parade. And while I won’t fault anyone for wanting to see an army of Storm Troopers and

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Roll Call for Friends of Gathering In Light

As for our first order of buisness of the new year I’d like to open the floor up to all of you who are friends of this site (thanks for the idea Paul). First, thank you for reading this past year, 2007 saw a huge increase in traffic, subscribers

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A Year With Gathering In Light 2007

Last year I did a year in review of this site, and I remember enjoying the time I took to go through my old posts and think about what happened in 2006, so I’ve decided to do the same thing again. And here’s what I’ve dug up.

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Five New Skills In Just One Week

I was thinking the other day how my resume is drastically changing with the birth of our daughter, here are some new skills I’ve picked up in the last nine days of her life. I can: Turn my chest into a warm and toasty mattress. Change diapers while sleeping.

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My Favorite Albums and Artists Of 2007

Since it’s almost the end of 2007 it’s time to post some of my favorite albums of the year. I will post my five most favorite in order then the rest is kind of a free-for-all. I will also offer a few new finds, musicians who don’t