Month: March 2009

  • Blogging as Ministry in A Virtual World

    Quaker blogger Robin Mohr has written a really thoughtful post, if you are interested in ministry in a web 2.0 culture this is a must read essay. Here are the three key points she brings up and then a few I add to the list: For me, the first point is that my blog is…

  • Dress-Down Friday | The Llama Report

    This is a special edition of Dress-Down Friday. When I was youth pastor of Barberton Friends Youth Group (BFYG) we did lots of silly things. One thing we did was to make a Llama our mascot whose (fictional) name was Bach Bahama Llama. We had youth group baseball shirts printed up with a picture of…

  • I saw this today on my favorite fan site rushmore academy and it made me really happy. It didn’t hurt that L really likes this book, and that Arcade Fire’s song “Wake Up,” from their album Funeral, is playing in the background really helps too. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84nC5UXbXo&w=480&h=295] This makes me all the more excited about another…

  • Counsel to the Christian Traveller – Put Your Hand to the Plow

    A while back when we were at the Convergent Friends weekend I got a copy of “Counsel to the Christian-Traveller: Also Meditations and Experiences” by William Shewen. It is an early Quaker text that was originally published in London in 1683, Shewen was among the early prominent London Friends. He got started as a writer…

  • Dress-Down Friday | Three Vimeos and an Alien-Baby Suit

    Here are a couple little internet treats for you all on this Dress-Down Friday. For those of you who are into the alien-baby accessorized look: This video is really just amazing: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3156959&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 John Howard Yoder is alive, kind of. Some Catholics are getting into the emerging church conversation. Are you a Stay at Home Dad?…