theological reflections

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

How to Blog for Theology and Religion

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I’ve been thinking for sometime about doing a how-to for theological and religious blogs as blogging is something I’ve grown increasingly interested in and challenged by.  There are many how-to blogs, and websites

Peace Parade or Protest March?

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There was a church this Sunday, so I heard, that had on its billboard outside the title to this year’s Palm Sunday message: “Peace Parade or Protest March????  Now granted we go to a

9rules Religion Community Ping Homily on Courage

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Shawn over at LO-FI Tribe has put up a “Ping Homily??? for March.  He writes a short homily and then asks other to join in on writing about that theme.  This month he writes about

Evangelicalism and Subcultures: Part V

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I’ve been writing on Evangelicalism over the past few weeks partially as a theological exercise and partially to work out a my own critiques and vision for this movement.  I would not consider myself

Critiques and Possibilities: Evangelicalism Part IV

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This is the continuation of a larger discussion I am working on, here is part I, part II, and part III. Spiritually Transformed Life #5 – The spiritually transformed life has become for many the end

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

What Evangelicalism is: Part II

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I have a disclaimer to make, I’ve been working on these posts for the past week, and as of last night I’ve had to rewrite and change course for this discussion.  This is

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

quakers, sacraments and practices

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AJ Schwanz has once again written a thoughtful post about Quakers ideas of the sacraments.  She’s been reading Bolger’s book and this of course brings up many questions about the use of sacraments