Simone Weil on Interventions
I’ve titled my sermon series on Luke “Interventions” and so was happy to see Simone Weil was (unsurprisingly) way ahead of me. Here she sums up the approach I’ve been taking with the
Blog Posts
Plan Ahead – Convergent Friends and New Monastics at Pendle Hill
Martin Kelley and I will be facilitating a weekend workshop at Pendle Hill this coming May (2010) that explores how tight-knit faith communities, such as convergent Friends, carry on and expand their witness via the
The Cockeyed Poem on the Plain (based on the Sermon on the Plain Lk. 6)
Here’s my own take, a remix if you will, of some of the things going on in the Gospel of Luke and Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:20-49). This is a new
John Caputo on Cyberspace
Far from undermining religious sensibilities, the advanced communication technologies are actually trading in religious goods and thus provide a new space, a cyberspace, for religious imagination. For if, as I have been arguing, religion disturbs
Camas Friends Church Blog
I’ve just set up a blog for the church I am pastoring, Camas Friends Church. I will be posting my sermons or “dialogues” as I’ve labelled them there, as well as other information
The Divine Commodity by Skye Jethani (A Review)
I’m way late to be posting about this book, but I still operate under the “better really late, than even later than that” motto. I was sent “The Divine Commodity” by Skye Jethani, editor
New Quaker Blogger Book: Writing Cheerfully on the Web
Liz Oppenheimer has recently edited a volume of online conversations from a rich variety of Quaker authors and brought them together in “Writing Cheerfully on the Web,” a play on the George Fox’s famous
Learning Poetry Like Eugene Peterson
A favorite blogger of mine, Fernando Gros, linked to a post of Eugene Peterson quotes the other day that are well worth reading. Peterson is a hero pastor theologian to many of us. Here are
Twitter Will Kill You Video
Found this today, and it’s pretty hilarious, especially considering that I use twitter frequently myself. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZWLMdGqu8g&hl=en&fs=1&&w=480&
Adult Second Hour (Worship) Resource On Luke 1
A fellow reader of “gathering in light,” Paul, emailed and asked me if he could the sermon notes and queries from last week for their Adult Second Hour in his meeting and I said, “Of
The (Real) Pursuit of Happiness
Came across this today and it reminded me that true happiness is not what we’re told it is: Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. Happy
Luke 1:1-4 Storyboards: Narration as Intervention (Sermon Notes)
This past Sunday we reflected on Luke 1:1-4, Luke’s introduction to his wonderful Gospel. Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us,