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So This Is Your First Year In Seminary? Tips, Tricks and Other Advice
In one more week the masses will pile into Fuller’s bookstore, library, classrooms, and student lounges as the first week of the 2007-2008 school year begins. This is a big year for Fuller, its 60th anniversary. The first week of the fall quarter is always the busiest of the four quarters on campus, all kinds of people trying to get the hang of grad school, living in a new city, and not knowing anyone (one way to find our about people is to visit the Fuller Blogger’s Page or Fuller’s Facebook Network).
I thought it would be fun to write some advice to new students, offering tips, ideas about what supplies you might need, and other advice that could come in handy. As a Fuller student (and employee) for four years now I feel like I’ve had my fair share of “Geez, I wish I knew that a year ago” that I thought it might be fun to share some of the stuff I’ve learned.
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Mission Precedes Ecclesiology
To be authentic, mission must be thoroughly theocentric. It begins in Gods redemptive purpose and will be completed when that purpose is fulfilled. The God-given identity of the church thus arises from its mission. This order of priority is foundational. Yet for some sixteen centuries Christians have been taught to think of church as the prior category and mission as one among several functions of the church.
Wilbert Shenk, Changing Frontiers of Mission, 7
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Dress Down Friday | NES + Guitar Hero = No Little Kind Pranks?
- Did you know you can now play Nintendo on your iPhone?
- And speaking of video games, while I’ve never been very good at guitar hero I know some of you are. The game is soon to be available for your mac.
- For those of you looking to combine breakfast with work a little more, and get things done a little faster you might want to try this out.
- Here’s a great program for those of you who use emusic. If you sign up with emusic using this link you’ll get free music and so will I.
- Question: Do you think this is hilarious or just down right sinister?
- If you don’t listen to NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast it’s not because I didn’t tell you to. And this week’s show has Jens Lekman, Broken Social Scene and Jose Gonzalez.
- Oh and here’s another group you can’t miss, NO LITTLE KINDNESS is making some great music (and they go to our church).
- Have you taken the Slacker Mom exam? And Men you can do it too.
- And finally, my favorite from the week. A lecture from Alasdair MacIntyre on video during the “Culture of Death” conference [via Philokalia Republic].
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How To Live Local: Creating Your Two Mile Map
Over the next couple weeks I have a few posts I will be doing that revolve around issues of sustainable living. In these posts I will be trying to avoid the more preachy, theoretical rants I can often find myself falling into. Rather these will be focused on tips and tricks, basic stuff that’s fun and easy to do. For the first post I wanted to say something about commuting and living life near your home.