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Mass Media and Culture
24 posts
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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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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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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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TV: It’s Turn Off Your TV Week
I almost forgot to announce that yesterday marked the beginning of “Turn off your TV Week,” sponsored by adbusters.org. There are a number of ways to participate but the simplest way is to
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Dress Down Friday (on Sunday) | Special Focus “Drive” New Fox TV Show
I almost missed doing a my post of random links from around the web this week, but had a little spare time
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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
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Trends within the Convergent Friends Conversation
Last week I went to a Friends conference (FWCC) in Rhode Island, and have already talked about it at some length. But the point of this short post was to point out a number
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Elvis Perkins @ the Echo: Already Looks Like A Classic
This past Friday night I went to see Elvis Perkins with Emily, Cate and Bob. Recently, I found out about Perkins through Paste Magazine. Their review concluded with a statement that grabbed my attention.
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Online Communities and Radical Reformation Perspectives
Today the Urban Connection of the Mennonite Mission Network has published an article on web communities. I am really excited about the article, Online Finds: Web Leads to Real Communiy by Ryan Miller, for
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Winds of the Spirit: Convergent Friends Workshop (Providence 2007)
As most of you know by now I spent the end of last week in Providence Rhode Island helping with a workshop about convergent Friends. I wanted to give an overview of what we
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Transitioning in A Global Information Age: Questions For Church Traditions
As a follow up to my reflections on Quaker Heritage Day I wanted to post a list of Questions I’ve been thinking about, many of which came because our travels to the north
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DVDevos – Video Devotionals for Visual Christians
This week I wanted to highlight the ministry of two Evangelical Friends and some of the cool things they’re doing. Matt Taflan and Shawn Belt, both from Ohio, have joined together in Florida
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Left Behind Video Game Hopes to Improve Public Relations Before It’s Too Late
[Edited to Add Picture Link see the bottom of post for more details] I’ve writen a couple time on the new Left Behind Video Game called “Eternal Forces.” Post #1 — Left Behind Eternal
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UCLA and the Taser Incident – We Tase in the Stacks Now
I don’t go to UCLA, but because I live in LA this incident hits close enough to home to draw some
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Join Me on Buy Nothing Day – November 25th
As a follow-up from yesterday’s article I wanted to mention “Buy Nothing Day.” Adbusters does an event every year where
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