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Five Years Ago and Convergent October 2008

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Martin Kelley has written a post giving a little back history to what happened five years ago. Five years ago he started reading Rober Weber’s book The Younger Evangelicals, a book that confirmed much

Manufacturing Dissent: An Interview with Stephen Duncombe

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I came across an interview with Stephen Duncome, the author of “Dream:Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in the Age of Fantasy,” a book I really enjoyed and have been trying to utilize some of the

Faith and The Difficult Process of Discernment

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Image via Wikipedia “And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6 NRSV) Over

Dreams and the Kingdom of God

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My August Barclay Press essay is now online. It’s a little late for August, but time has been pretty tight lately. The essay looks at Stephen Duncombe’s recent book on progressive politics, “Dream

Theologians….

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Theologians…. on Flickr – Photo Sharing!. Theologians By Wilco: Jeff Tweedy, Mikael Jorgensen, Girard “Theologians don’t know nothing About my soul About my soul I’m an ocean And this emotion Slow motion Slow motion”

Anthony Smith on Not Voting as Violence?

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Anthony Smith also known as for his blog “Musings of a Postmodern Negro” has written a great and thought-provoking post on voting from the perspective of black history and theology. He says: Voting, as

Dress Down Friday – Rushmore’s Tenth Anniversary

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Here’s a list of interesting things to entertain you for a few moments. * This fall is the tenth anniversary of Wes Anderson’s film “Rushmore.” To celebrate, the Fan site Rushmore Academy is putting

Cattell – On the Desire to Remain Uncontaminated

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I came across this quote from Missionary and Quaker Everett Cattell today, here he questions the faithfulness of those communities that withdraw from “the world.”  It is a strong statement, but one that resonates with

Barth: The Original (Theology) Hipster?

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Ben Myers posted a quote from Karl Barth on Fashion the other day, where Barth considers fashion one of the lordless powers of our times: “Who or what really determines fashion – the fashion to which

Everett Cattell’s Principle of Authority (pt. 3)

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Series contents | Intro | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five Cattell’s understanding of authority is derived from Christ, who is the head of the church. He argues that there is a tendency in

A Quakerism Worth Believing In

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The convictions of the First Friends were what ordered their theo-political imagination (as Cavanugh calls it). This ‘imagination’ guided their practice, their missionary-inspired anti-Constantinian message that Christ had retunred and is the