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Before A Great Cloud of Witnesses: A New Year At Seminary
I was asked to share a passage of Scripture and a brief reflection for a community event this evening and I thought I’d offer it here for all of you as well. I
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McCain: “I know how to heal the wounds of war”
I just finished watching the debate and it left me feeling like our country and economy will be safer and better off with Obama at the helm. What caught me off guard about the
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Five Years Ago and Convergent October 2008
Martin Kelley has written a post giving a little back history to what happened five years ago. Five years ago he started
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Everett Cattell’s Principle of Authority (pt. 3)
Series contents | Intro | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five Cattell’s understanding of authority is derived from Christ, who is
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Everett Cattel on the Great Commission (pt. 2)
Series contents | Intro | Part Two | Cattell believes that mission must start from the Great Commission, not only a central theme in the New Testament, but a central theme throughout all of Scripture. He remarks
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Everett Cattell: Quaker and Mission Theologian
Series contents | Intro | Part Two | This is a part of a series I will be doing on Cattell and his contributions to the Friends Church and missiology. Everett Cattell is an important figure when
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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
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Remixing Faith in the 21st Century (Barclay Press)
I’ve posted my June essay on Barclay press if you care to have a read (it’s nice and long!). Here’s and excerpt: This past April Radiohead did another thing that sparked
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Rufus Jones’ Future Hope
Here’s a nice long quote from Rufus M. Jones about what he hopes to see in the future of Friends. The quote comes from a lecture he gave at the Baltimore Young Friends
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Douglas Gwyn and the Convergent-Covenant
Just came across these two quotes from Quaker historical-theologian Douglas Gwyn’s book “The Covenant Crucified,” and it got me thinking about some of the work I did in a previous project I’
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Boycotting Amazon (And Borders and B&N)
[[Warning Containing Rant]] I’m joining Dan in his Amazon crusade (see here and here), which basically means, I’m not selling books on there (I pulled all my for sale books down today
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Peace Church Colleges Debate Having Armed Guards
The other day in a Washington Times article there is a discussion about peace church colleges working through questions about whether to employ armed guards for student protection. Two Church of the Brethren schools
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Quaker Youth Book Call for Submissions
I’ve written about the upcoming Quaker Youth Book project I’m working with and said we would soon be giving our
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Yet Another Manifesto?! Evangelical Leaders Draw the Line
If you haven’t heard by now (I heard from Halden), a group of (select) world renowned Evangelicals got together and compiled their own manifesto (or see the summary). I say ‘select’ because there