Featured For Faculty, Boards, and Trustees of Quaker Schools I wrote this list specifically for staff, faculty, and trustees of Quaker schools. I expect that more will be added to it overtime. We have a lot of learning and teaching to do if we are going to bring up a base level knowledge and appreciation of the principles and
Blog Entries A Prayer For All Those Beginning a New School Year Today begins a new semester for many beginning or returning to college, and if seminary and graduate school has not begun for you it is just around the corner. Here is a prayer I want to offer to all of you as a new school year begins: Almighty God, in
Featured Thinking About A Vision for Theological Eduction In class last week we discussed James Wm. McClendon‘s baptist theological vision. His small ‘b’ baptist vision has five characteristics of the church that standout as a good framework from which any theology should be done. These five points are: 1. Biblicism – Acceptance of the Bible as authoritative in
Blog Entries Three Tips For Students Writing Academic Papers I was just emailed by a friend (and fellow Fuller student) who asked me to name my top two or three writing mistakes I see while grading papers and what can be done about it. He’s doing a speech on the topic and wanted to get some feedback from
Featured Reading for Revolution – George Barna and the Emerging Church Today I had the chance to lead Ryan’s class for the second time this week. On Tuesday we covered aspects from the book Emerging Churches, while today we covered questions and key insights concerning one of Barna’s more recent hit titles, “Revolution.” Here is some of what we
Featured B’ham or bust: Three Weeks and Counting Life seems to be moving at increasing speeds lately, it’s all I can do to keep track of the things that still need done before I depart. I am leaving for England in under three weeks now, and still have tons of books that need read, articles that need
Featured Find Theological Blogs: A Listing of Fuller Seminary Bloggers I’ve begun to compile a listing of blogs by students who attend or have attended Fuller Theological Seminary. This is meant for any student no matter what you write about, or what your various positions are on theological matters. It’s just a page to help connect Fuller students
Featured Methods in History: Learning a Few New Tricks I hate to apologize for not writing anything meaningful lately because then I have to admit that it’s true, but I am going to do it anyways. Sorry for all these short posts to the notepad but that’s about all I have time for lately. I’ve got
Blog Entries Sponsored Post: The Scholarship Blog I’ve been asked to review The Scholarship Blog for Reviewme.com. This isn’t the first time I’ve come across this site, it was just this past October that fellow blogger Paul Stamatiou was trying to get enough votes to win a $5000.00 “blogging scholarship” from “Scholarships
Blog Entries Thoughts After Fall Quarter 2006 I realized yesterday that I haven’t blogged in quite awhile and realized I needed a little break from it. There’s so much I’ve been thinking about and I’ve needed some space to do it without trying to come up with something worth reading (as if that
Featured FAQs: Why Go to Fuller Seminary for Your Ph.D.? Sorry we missed the FAQs last week, I was swamped, but we’re back and I’ve got some great guests coming up in the next month. This segment is officially called “FAQs of a Theologian” and it is where I or my theologian guests answer a question that often
Featured Customized Emerging Church Google Search Engine I spent a couple hours this morning creating a customized emerging church search engine using Google’s new Co-op feature. I’ve added tons and tons of websites and blogs that deal with emerging church issues. My sources for this list came from Scot McKnight, Ryan Bolger, The Daily Scribe,
Featured Surviving a Study Program With EarPlugs, a Hiding Place, and Lots of Coffee. We had a great, and much needed, weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped to make my birthday awesome. Emily and I took it easy all day Saturday. It was good because I actually feel pretty well-rested and ready to go. The next couple weeks are going to get crazy around
Uncategorized How to Setup Your Blog (WordPress) For Students This was cross-posted over on Ryan Bolger’s class blog, which I wanted to announce anyway. If you’re interested in seeing what we’ll be up to this quarter jump on over there and check it out. I am looking forward to the class I am a teacher’s
Featured The Beatitudes Society @ Fuller Seminary I must continue with my thoughts regarding this past weekend, there is so much to talk about! And in order to do that I thought I’d start with a little about The Beatitudes Society and what it is. A while back in the spring I think it was, I
Featured Books For An Introduction To Studying Bible and Theology My housemate Chase and I were having lunch the other day and we started talking about important books that we would use if we were going to teach Bible and Theology students. Now granted we’re both from more of an Evangelical stream of Christianity so I recognize that some
Featured What Are Your Favorite Quaker Books? I just finished reading Martin’s post about him finally finishing John Woolman’s Journal and it got me thinking about how I enjoyed Woolman’s journal so much. Then I started thinking more about books (not something that’s all that hard to do, really.) This reminded me to
Featured Reflections on Doing Quaker Research For class we were asked to write a short reflection on our spiritual journey and how it’s led us to doing the kinds of dissertations we’re preparing for. I thought I would post it mainly because I don’t think I’ve written much about my personal journey,
Featured Research Design – Some Preliminary Questions Today we spent 8:30-5 minus 1.5 hours for lunch talking about what research is, why it’s important, what our research will entail and why we are doing it. It wasn’t a bad day, considering how long the day was I was able to stay pretty well
Featured So School Begins Today: What’s Coming up For Gathering In Light This past friday I finished up one year tenure as Fuller Seminary’s textbook buyer. I began working at the bookstore in the beginning of summer 2005 and shortly thereafter I took over with this full-time position. Well, even though I had a hard time adjusting to full-time work and
Featured Cheap Mac Apps for Students and Teachers I’ve been thinking about compiling one of those “favorite apps” posts that we mac users like to do (too often no doubt). But in keeping with the tradition of mac-lovers I thought it would be good for someone to have a limited list of apps useful for educational purposes
Featured How to Get Started Blogging This is a second post on blogging, one that is more directed toward beginners (and is much shorter). I’ve decided to write this as a resource for friends and the students I TA for who are interested in starting out as bloggers. I’ve written a very lengthy post
Featured The New Worlds We Stand Before There is good news I can’t help but share, yesterday I opened my email to read, Wess, I’ve been given the go-ahead to officially welcome you into the PhD program…I’ve been assigned as your mentor, so I’m thrilled to be working with you for the
Blog Entries Using Rojo For RSS Feeds and Educational Use I switched over from bloglines to rojo about 3 months ago to handle all of my blog feeds. I did this mainly because it has a simple and easy to view user-interface and because of its tagging capilities. Since I first came over the rojo team has continued to develop
Blog Entries Some Web 2.0 for Educational Technology I’ve been continuing to try and learn (and keep up with) new technologies I think will be useful in the classroom, as I do I post them on my resource page for such items. There are a few I wanted to point to for use in the technologically aware
