Blog Entries Burnside Review: Lovedrug – Everything Starts Where It Ends Burnside Writers Collective has written a worthy review ofLovedrug’s new album – Everything Starts Where It Ends. Even though I am friends with a couple of the guys in the band I really like Lovedrug’s music and their new album. This review shows I am not the only one.
Featured Making Our Homes Centers of Missional Activity My good friend and collegue JR Rozko recently wrote an article for Mere Mission called Missional Home Makers. In it he discusses the importance of turning our homes into centers for missional activity in our neighborhoods and activities. Instead of focusing all our attention on the inward care of the
Featured Elvis Perkins @ the Echo: Already Looks Like A Classic This past Friday night I went to see Elvis Perkins with Emily, Cate and Bob. Recently, I found out about Perkins through Paste Magazine. Their review concluded with a statement that grabbed my attention. They said though this guy hasn’t been around long, and it may be too early
Featured FAQ: Are There Modern Day Prophets? Frequently Asked Questions (of a theologian) is a series I do from time to time as a means of answering good questions that come across my desk. Sometimes I answer the questions, sometimes others do, if you’re interested in seeing some other Q & A’s check it out
Blog Entries Dress Down Fridays | Video Edition: Chris Rock, Bionic Burgers and GodTube This week I’ve got some really funny videos here. First, thanks JR for sending this link of a video with Chris Rock talking about some of the differences between Hilary and Obama. If you find yourself craving a McDonald’s burger, consider ordering the Bionic Burger. It has a
Featured An Emergent Manifesto Of Hope: A Brief Review A couple days back I purchased all my books for next quarter (or at least most of them) and one I am really excited about is “An Emergent Manifesto of Hope” coedited by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones. The book is a collection of essays from emerging church leaders, the
Featured Online Communities and Radical Reformation Perspectives Today the Urban Connection of the Mennonite Mission Network has published an article on web communities. I am really excited about the article, Online Finds: Web Leads to Real Communiy by Ryan Miller, for a couple reasons. First it shows that the Anabaptists are also asking questions about the global
Featured Winds of the Spirit: Convergent Friends Workshop (Providence 2007) As most of you know by now I spent the end of last week in Providence Rhode Island helping with a workshop about convergent Friends. I wanted to give an overview of what we did there so that those of you who are curious can be in the know. There
Blog Entries Back from the East – Almost I made it back from Providence mainly in one piece; every flight I took, both on thursday and Saturday, was at least one hour late so that was fairly stressful. The conference itself was wonderful, and I met some incredible people there. I have a lot more to say about
Featured I am Heading (Providence) Rhode Island: FWCC Convergent Friends Conference This weekend I have a great opportunity to spend some time with a group of ecumenical Quakers. I am flying to Providence Rhode Island to participate in the Friends World Committee for Consultation, an ecumenical group of Friends who have been trying to help bridge the gap between the various
Featured Transitioning in A Global Information Age: Questions For Church Traditions As a follow up to my reflections on Quaker Heritage Day I wanted to post a list of Questions I’ve been thinking about, many of which came because our travels to the north and many because of what I have been studying over the past quarter. The Church in
Blog Entries Dress Down Fridays | Relient K, Arcade Fire, Lovedrug and Other New Albums There’s not left for me to say this week, I’ve said a lot already and have a really busy next week and a half. This coming Thursday I am flying out to FWCC to help lead a workshop on “convergent Friends,” which I am really excited about but
Featured Learning a New Language While Building a House: Reflections on Quaker Heritage Day Psa. 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. This past weekend my wife and I visited Berkeley California for a gathering called “Quaker Heritage Day.” It’s not unlike any
Blog Entries Virb Social Network Goes Live (and Kills Myspace) Okay – so myspace isn’t dead yet, but won’t it be amazing when it is? I can’t stand it. In fact, as soon as enough of my friends join virb, I will consider deleting myspace for good. But in the meantime, Virb has gone public and you really
Blog Entries Video of Bono’s Acceptance Speech For NAACP Award JR Woodward has posted a video of Bono accepting the NACCP Award and it’s definitely worth the watch. A couple quotes from the video are, “Love thy neighbor is not a piece of advice but a command.” “Whatever thoughts we have about God, who He is or even if
Featured Review of Relient K’s New Album: Five Score and Seven Years Ago (Or Has it Been that Long?) Relient K’s new album, Five Score and Seven Years came out today [you can read more here] and is currently in 6th place on Itunes. I’m kicking myself currently because I’ve been wanting to write about the album for a while and give a preview of what
Blog Entries Precarious Peace and Quaker Testimonies: Two New Books I just received in the mail yesterday two new books from Quaker Life for me to review and I am really excited about both books. The first is called “A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge and Identity,” by Chris K. Huebner. Huebner is a professor of theology and
Blog Entries Britain Yearly Meeting Blog Is Up and Almost Running John Fitzgerald from Britain Yearly Meeting has set up a blog for this year’s yearly gathering and has invited Simon, Jez and me to be the ‘official bloggers’ of the event. John said, “This should be a great way of expanding the experience of Yearly Meeting to reach those
Blog Entries Dress Down Fridays | March 2, 2007 This is another Dress Down Friday, where the point is to have a little fun, share some links and recap the week. Oh and I’m taking the weekend off, Emily and I are heading off to Berkley for the weekend so here are a few thoughts before we head
Blog Entries TIme-Killer: Your Three Favorite Recently Discovered Blogs and Why? [Updated – see bottom] Not that you or I have that much time to kill at the moment, but I am interested in learning what your top three favorite blogs are right this moment. We have a lot of blogs we read all the time, but I am interested in some
Featured Remember You are Dust: Reflections on Lent 2007 The season of Lent began last week on Ash Wednesday, which marks the 40 day period of waiting for Holy Week. Lent is a time of cleaning out our lives, remembering the frailty of life, reflecting on God and preparing space for the pinnacle of the Christian calendar that comes
Featured James Cameron Found Jesus And He’s Not Even a Theologist! The Filmmaker, James Cameron, known best for his overblown, and over sunk, romance movie the Titanic is now trying his hand at archaeology, well kind of. See, Cameron has done something no one actually in the field of archaeology has been able to do, he’s found the coffin of
Blog Entries Do A Little Design? Help Princeton Out (Unofficially) Adam Cleaveland’s decided to do a little contest for all you designers. He’s giving out prizes to the top three people who can come up with the coolest new logo for Princeton Seminary. It’s not that Princeton has asked anyone to do this, but it does sound
Blog Entries Dress Down Fridays | Feb 23, 2007 Here’s what’s come across my desk and life in the last week. Lately I’ve been toying around with two social websites: virb and twitter. Virb is a social networking site for individuals, groups, musicians and moviemakers. It will mostly like be the beginning of the end for
Featured The Questions Pacifists Always Get Asked I found this article “Five Questions Your Pacifist Friends Are Tired of Answering” from the Burnside Collective. The article, written by Jonathan Fitzgerald, is an easily accessible article on specific questions that pacifists often get asked. Fitzgerald introduces his article by saying, “What follows are five questions about/arguments against
