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Quaker Teacher Fired For Not Taking an Oath
This may be old news for some of you but last week Quaker Wendy Gonaver, an American Studies professor at Cal State
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Barclay Press Essay:The Temptation To Surrender
Barclay Press, the main Evangelical Quaker publisher, has totally revamped their website and invited five columnists to write for them over the
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Working on a Youth Book Project for Quakers
This past weekend I was in Greensboro, North Carolina, at a Quakers United in Publication (QUIP) conference. There was a really great
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Quakers and Zits the Comic Strip
This is the comic from Zits today, a friend of mine sent it to me: It’s true, I do have pretty
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Listening As Exchange: The Trouble with God Discerning Our Will
If you ever get the chance to sit in on a silent Quaker meeting, take the opportunity. It’s not the kind of experience you’ll get just anywhere. Yes, it’s intense. Yes,
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Remixing In Rainbows (and the church)
In the spirit of creativity and utilizing the web to foster fan-based participation, Radiohead has launched the website Radioheadremix.com and are inviting everyone to remix their latest single “Nude.” They’ve split
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Joining The QUIP Youth Book Project
I recently applied to and was accepted to be a part of the editorial board for the upcoming Quaker Youth Book Project,
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Looking Awry at Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Limited
This is an article that was published back in the fall in Fuller’s “newspaper” the SEMI (that issue of the paper can be downloaded via .pdf here). There are two reasons I am
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James K. Smith on Caputo’s Deconstruction
Since I recently posted on Caputo’s “What Would Jesus Deconstruct?” I thought it would be helpful to point out this article a friend emailed me by one of my favorite contemporary theologians, James
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The Newsies and the Kingdom of God?
Ok, so I’m late to the game, yes, I just watched Newsies for the first time. Emily still can’t believe I just now saw it. All I can say is that in
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Step/Not, Hospitality and ‘Realism’ (What Would Jesus Deconstruct?)
Carrying on from my last post I thought I’d point out a few more aspects to John (Jack) Caputo’s book I do like and then say something about what I don’t
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Expecting the Unexpected (What Would Jesus Deconstruct?)
Last week I did a lecture in class on John Caputo’s most recent book,What Would Jesus Deconstruct? I have mixed feelings about the book (more on this later) but I think in
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The Wire And Disrupting the Othering Process
If you haven’t had the chance to watch HBO’s TV show The Wire I highly recommend you take the time and begin watching. It’s in its fifth and final season, so
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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
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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