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One Argument For Taking the Climate Crisis Seriously

I found this video on my Friend Joe’s, Peace Church, website.  The video presents an argument for why we ought to take the climate crisis seriously, regardless of whether you believe that there is an actual crisis or not.  What do you think, do you find this guy’s

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Three Tips For Students Writing Academic Papers

I was just emailed by a friend (and fellow Fuller student) who asked me to name my top two or three writing mistakes I see while grading papers and what can be done about it. He’s doing a speech on the topic and wanted to get some feedback from

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A Report on the “Perfect” Day

Yesterday turned out to be a great day. Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes either through this blog, email, facebook, regular mail or those who met us in person along the journey yesterday. In short, I was successful in having a “perfect” day. 😉 Of course there were a few

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Dress Down Friday | Attempting the Perfect (Birth)day

Tomorrow is my 29th birthday, and while I hope to do a little post about the whole thing, I wanted to give a heads up now. I am attempting to have the perfect day. That’s right! Some have suggested it can’t be done, I am setting out to

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John Geib Meets YouTube (And Repeat)

I was really happy to see one of my absolute favorite New Testament professors from Malone, John David Geib, on YouTube (who not only taught me a ton of stuff about scripture but also helped perform our wedding ceremony!). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrm-NN24wA&rel=1&

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Book Review: It’s A Dance By Patrick Oden

Fuller Seminary grad, and fellow blogger Patrick Oden has a new book coming out on November 1st, “It’s a Dance” with Evangelical Friends’ Barclay Press. I remember meeting Patrick three years ago when I was just starting to TA for Ryan Bolger’s Emerging Churches class. We’d been

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Dress Down Friday | Videos, Kitty Cat Man and Rapture Month

This week I’ve got a variety of videos for you to check out.  Thanks to all of you who showed me this stuff, it’s great.  Also, post links to your favorite videos in the comments below and add to the collection. Scrapper Bikes! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/

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Letter To Gap About Business Practices and Sustainability

The other day Emily purchased a few articles of maternity clothing from Gap’s sale section online, afterwards she was asked to give some feedback. Here’s what she wrote: I am interested in clothing that is made with Organic and Sustainable fibers, such as Organic cottons, bamboos, and modal.

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How To Start A Compost Bin In The City (With Little Money)

Today thousands of bloggers are writing posts on their sites trying to raise awareness on environmental issues.  More and more people everyday are growing in their concern for our daily impact on the environment.  I’ve written a lot about this, and will continue to do so, not because I

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Bloggers Join Blog Action Day Oct. 15

Some of you may be interested in joining in the event planned for this Monday. Blogactionday.org is calling for all bloggers to discuss one issue, the environment. They’ve are already close to 14,000 blogs who have signed up to write something. I’ve got a couple ideas

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Dress Down Friday | More Radiohead, Elephants, Double Births and Hauerwas

It was good to take a week off from Dress Down Friday last week, I guess you could say I had a “Business as usual Friday” instead (but that doesn’t necessarily make for an interesting blog post). But this week I’ve got some really great stuff. Radiohead Goodness

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First Glance at Radiohead’s In Rainbow

I was in the middle of reading some websites when I got the email notification at 10:50pm tonight that Radiohead‘s new album “In Rainbows” was ready for download.  I almost jumped out of my skin trying to switch over to mail and hit the special “UNIQUE DOWNLOAD ACTIVATION

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Review of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited

We finally got to see The Darjeeling Limited this past weekend at the Arclight (our first time there) and the whole thing was a magical experience. Darjeeling, the 5th full length movie by Director Wes Anderson, does not disappoint.  Besides the typical things we’ve come to love in Anderson’

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Kierkegaard on Solitude

It is an awful satire, and an epigram on the materialism of our modern age, that nowadays the only use that can be made of solitude is imposing it as a penalty, as jail. What a difference there is between those times when, no matter how secular materialism always was,

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Liturgies of Quakerism Review in The Friend

For all those of you who get a copy of The Friend, the only weekly Quaker publication in the world, you will see my review of the Ben Pink Dandelion’s 2005 book Liturgies of Quakerism in this week’s edition. It’s pretty neat to finally get something in

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Avoiding the Text? Reflections On Reading in Community

My wife and I recently joined a new small group at our church and I we’re both pretty excited about. Over the past 8 years or so I can’t really think of a small group that I was a part of but wasn’t leading in some capacity,

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From The ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’

This past spring I had the great opportunity to participate in leading a workshop on convergent friends in Providence with a dear friend, and some new friends we met there: David and Shawna.  Afterwards Robin was contacted about writing an article for The Friends Journal on the workshop and she

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Dress Down Friday | One Words

Today is the one word Dress Down Friday Special. * Ouch! * Art * Lovely… * Halloween * Tasty * Interesting * Blue * YES! Thanks everyone for links this week.

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Remember the Dutch! The Magic of Creation

Emily and I have been doing our birthing classes for the past three weeks preparing for birth. We are taking the Bradley Method classes because we’re both interested in having a natural birth (or at least as much of one as is possible). But that’s where we’re

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