• Presenting on Convergent Friends at FAHE in June

     So much for a really creative title! It was the best I could think of at this hour. Anyways, Last year at this time I was living in Birmingham England, away from my pregnant wife, finishing up my first year of doctoral studies and working on Quaker theology with a guy named Pink (see my three…

  • My 2008 Reading List (so far)

    With every new year comes new lists of things we all would like to accomplish, take for instance the reading list. How many of you have compiled, if not physically, at least a mental list of all the books, authors and ideas you’d like to read about in 2008? What are the ones you’re most…

  • An Emerging Profession: Sharing Power In A Flattened World

    Drew Ditzel asked me, along with a number of other bloggers (see below), to participate in a project he is doing for his class on emerging models of church at Columbia Seminary. Drew wants us to write about emerging churches and how they are dealing with leadership – mainly through giving everyone a voice, downplaying…

  • 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…

  • Zizek, the Decalogue and The Problem with (too much) Liberation

    It is…crucial to bear in mind the interconnection between the Decalogue (the traumatically imposed Divine Commandments) and its modern obverse, the celebrated ‘human rights’. As the experience of our post-political liberal-permissive society amply demonstrates, human Rights are ultimately, at their core, simply Rights to violate the Ten Commandments. ‘The right to privacy’ – the right…