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(un)Programmed: Towards the Program of the Spirit | YQ Article
About a week ago I had an article come out in Young Quaker, the publication run by Young Friends General Meeting in Britain (See volue 53,number 6). This edition was the last one
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Weekend Away | Teflord’s Iron Bridge and the Shropshire’s Buildwas Abbey
This past last weekend I had the opportunity to go visit my friend Simon in his home town of Telford and he took me to see some really cool things. Instead of going into
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An Apologetic for a Quaker Theology | Do We Need It (or want it)?
This is a response to a comment I received yesterday about Quaker theology. The comment was good enough that I decided to write a post about it, because I know that many people have
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Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away
Online communities continue to grow Myspace, Virb, Facebook, delicious, flickr, twitter, digg, 30boxes, box.net, etc, etc, all offer a way for people to share and stay in touch. I personally like the attention
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Meeting House Innovative? | Visual Arts and Creativity in Quakerism
Recently I had a great talk with a woman from Essex, and she goes to a Quaker meeting that’s doing some really cool stuff. I asked her about her meeting and she told
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Towards a Post-Foundationalist Quaker Theology: Slavoj Zizek, Quietism and Pink Dandelion
Accepting the whole of a tradition and not just the parts I found Slavoj Zizeks opening to his book The Fragile Absolute, to be instructive for a present day study of Quaker theology.
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1970’s Convergent Friends? | A Brief History
My good friend Shawna from Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) sent this to a bunch of us the other day intimating at Convergent Friends being much older than we thought. A conference of Friends in
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Open Anabaptism and a Community of (in)outsiders
I’ve been meaning to comment on Jarrod McKenna’s thought worthy post which looks at the “Emerging Peace Church Movement” or what he likes to call “Open Anabaptism.” Through his various travels and
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… what larks! Some New Friends and New Words
jez and wess looking through the ‘young quakers’ t-shirt … what larks! Originally uploaded by Simon Latham. Since arriving in England I’ve been having a blast. There are at least two things that
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Orthodoxy As An Event and Questions About a Quaker Orthodoxy
Tony Jones, recently discussed a paper he read at Wheaton. In the paper he talks about the prospect of being an “anti-theologian,” (a designation I too find attractive) and orthodoxy as something that
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Dress Down Friday | Rush Limbaugh, 8-Bit Nintendo and Quakerpedia
Here’s another installment of Dress Down Friday! Another Radio DJ, Rush Limbaugh, is in trouble for being racially insensitive. He’s recently aired a racially charged song slamming Barack Obama. The Guardian reports,
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Loving Ourselves To Death? A Theological Reflection of Jesus, Self-Love and Modernity
[This is cross-posted from the BYM blog] In the context of talking about Quaker work, one of our sessions yesterday, something was said about loving ourselves before we can love others. In this
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The Eagle Has Landed – err…How I Got to Birmingham Safely By Jet, Bus and Car
Well I made it into London (Heathrow Airport) safe and sound yesterday. My day(s) of travel though smooth, was very long. I left on an Air Canada Jet from LAX at 11am on
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Dress Down Friday | Atlas Songs (Wide Array) – New Music from Kevan Pedan
A good friend of ours from Canton, Kevan Pedan, recently mailed me his band’s new album. It’s Atlas Songs’ first full-length and it’s called (Wide Array). I am always excited
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Allelon: Video Interview with Ryan Bolger on Emerging and Missional Churches
There is great half-hour video of my PhD advisor, Ryan Bolger, where he discusses what emerging churches and missional churches are. During the interview he discusses with Alan Roxburgh of Allelon, and author