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Spending Money as Christians: A Quaker Perspective

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Last night Emily and I had the opportunity to hang out with some of our good friends from Ohio and eat some fantastic sushi.  During the course of the evening, we encroached on a sometimes-touchy

Queries on The Lord's Prayer

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This Sunday I am leading a discussion on the Lord’s Prayer, basically covering what I’ve been writting about here for the past month or so. In preparing I decided to create a few

Why Quaker 2.0?

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I’ve written my first post as a contributing member of the Quaker 2.0 team today, if you’re interested in what’s going on over there here is the link.  The main point

Kicking it Quaker Style

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Emily and I had a blast this weekend up in Berkeley, a place we could easily imagine living.  We went up for Quaker Heritage Day, a one-day conference held at Berkeley Friends Church (part of

Quaker Heritage Day

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Thanks to Robin M, a fellow Quaker blogger, Emily and I found out about Quaker Heritage Day and will be attending.   I am excited to see that Peggy Senger Parsons will

Critiques and Possibilities: Evangelicalism Part III

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I’ve been working on a series of posts concerning Evangelicalism and when I get to it Quakerism. Visit my “Series on Evangelicalism” under the Featured page for the rest of the posts on this

Reflections on Evangelicalism Part I

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Reflection on the State of Evangelicalism At Fuller we obviously talk a lot about American Culture, fundamentalism’s effects on American Evangelicalism and American Politics and the plight of Christianity in general.  These tend to

christmas and Quakers

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Street Corner Society offers a very thoughtful look into Quaker practices concerning the holidays.  This feeds into and also challenges what I said yesterday. Technorati Tags: Christmas, quakerism, theology

getting back to things

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I have taken a bit of a hiatus from the world of blogging, primarily beacuse I have been recovering from writing the Barclay Press entries. I was asked to review Ryan Bolger’s new book

The Temptation to Stand for Nothing

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“the temptation to stand for nothing” America is full of uber-evangelical-legalistic-rightwinged Christians that I along with my many post-evangelical colleagues have tried to forge a “third way” so to speak.  What I mean is that