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Cleaker Theme – Simple Three Column WordPress Theme

Adam, a friend who writes at pomomusings and attends princeton seminary, just released a really nice, simple three-column wordpress theme. The colors are warm and inviting, and the price is right! (free). If you’re interested in his other design work check out Cleave Design. If you’re in the

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The Things We Carry: A Spiritual Reflection on Life With Ghosts

Life with Ghosts Last night Emily and I started to watch “One Punk Under God,” a documentary about Jay Bakker. Jay is the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. I’ve been interested in finding out more on Jay as we had a friend who worked with Jay’s

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10 Invites for The Virb Social Network

The folks from Pure Volume have built a new social network that promises to be pretty sweet. ThanksPaul for hooking me up with an invite! And now I’ve got 10 of my own to give out for anyone who’s interested. Contact me if you want in, and hopefully

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Dress Down Friday | Notes From Feb 16

This week has been INSANE. I guess that would make this a, “notes from one who is now insane,” post. I spent all day Monday, Tuesday and Thursday writing a paper on the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. I have a little over 40 pages to show for it, and now am

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RIP Bruce Metzger: New Testament Scholar Dies

As posted on a number of sites, New Testament scholar Bruce Metzger died at 93 this past tuesday. Metzger is one of the main people responsible for assembling the New Testament Greek Manuscript as we have today, he also headed up the translation of the widely popular and most academic

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Jacques Ellul – The Presence of the Kingdom

I read this the other day and loved hearing about Jordan’s interaction with theologian Jaques Ellul. Everytime I read statements by Ellul I am challenged, excited and filled with awe. Here are some really great quotes from an excerpt written on the Burnside Writers Collective. Jacques Ellul – The Presence

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FAQs: Why is God Communal?

This is a guest article written by friend and colleague JR Rozko of Life as Mission. “FAQs of a Theologian” is a segment I run from time to time that seeks to answer basic questions that get asked of people with theology degrees. If you would like to submit a

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Jesus Would Even Love Osama!? I Don’t Think SO Says Prime Minister

My Australian ‘mate’ Jarrod McKenna’s sent me a provocative short piece on how Jesus would love even world criminals like Osama and how the Australian Prime Minister isn’t happy about it. What is interesting is when John Howard (the Prime Minister) put forward his position to the press

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Find Theological Blogs: A Listing of Fuller Seminary Bloggers

I’ve begun to compile a listing of blogs by students who attend or have attended Fuller Theological Seminary. This is meant for any student no matter what you write about, or what your various positions are on theological matters. It’s just a page to help connect Fuller students

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What is the Emerging Church? Two Videos with Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs

I just found this site that has a video of both Ryan Bolger (my PhD advisor) and one of his PhD advisors when he was in school, Eddie Gibbs. Here they give some brief thoughts on “What is the Emerging Church?” A small movement in the West directed at thinking

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Dress Down Friday – Notes from Feb. 9

Here are some random thoughts that have been crammed in my head over the past week: I decided to switch the ol’ theme around for awhile, it’s still using the same core called “subtle” but now with a little different style. Unfortunately, I am having some problems with my

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6.5 Great Qualities of A Father-In-Law

Today is my Emily’s dad’s birthday (the big 53) and I thought I’d take a moment to mention a few of his characteristics that make him a great father-in-law. 6.5 to be exact. 1 – We have a lot of things in common: he loves the outdoors,

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Create a Moleskine PDA: The Student GTD Hack

A couple weeks back, I stumbled upon what seems like a small culture of people who have backed away from the “pure paperless ideology.” They are using small notebooks (Moleskines) to manage the tasks and projects in their lives. I’ve researched a bunch of various methods and learned a

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New Version of Pukka Announced For Delicious

I use Pukka non-stop throughout the day as I do reading and research on the web. It’s a super fast way for me to bookmark, and tag webpages to my delicious account. Today, a new version of Pukka was released. It’s really worth the $5 if you’re

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Everything Green On the (mt) Switch?

Hey everyone, I’ve transferred my Website over to Media Temple hosting. I don’t anticipate any problems but will you let me know if you notice any bugs?

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5 Streams of The Emerging Church and Convergent Friends (?)

My Friend Jarrod McKenna sent me a link to this article the other, it’s written by Scot McKnight, professor of religious studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. The Article is called “Five Streams of the Emerging Church.” Here is a long quote from the article: To define

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Contest Almost Over – Drop Your Name in the Hat

Don’t forget tomorrow night is the last night of my 1 year blog anniversary contest. I am giving away a pretty cool prize to one lucky reader of this blog. I’ve decided to randomly draw a name out of my hat to select the winner, so it’s

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Changing Homes: The Meeting House Network

A quick announcement – we at the Daily Scribe have decided to do an entire site revamp, with some new ideas, a new name, a new feel, for the new year. We’ve appreciated all the hard work and commitment to the community. There has been a good deal of success

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The Church and Postmodern Culture

I just found out about “The Church and Postmodern Culture” website, which looks like it’s going to be a great find. Chris, pointed out their first issue of “The Church and Postmodern Culture: Conversation,” otherwise known as c&p issue 1.1. It is a downloadable “journal” of

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1 Year Blog-Anniversary Giveaway

Posted Edited 1.29 (See below): Today is the one year anniversary of gatheringinlight.com and my migration over to WordPress. 365 days ago I moved my blog from blogger to hosted wordpress account and bought this domain name. And I’ve decided to have a giveaway where anyone Can

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Thoughts on Pedagogy: Does Technology in The Classroom Help or Hurt?

A couple weeks back I had the great privilege to meet with some of the faculty and staff at the school where I attend, to discuss updating the classrooms on campus for better learning. The school was recently awarded a grant with this specific task in mind. One question raised

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Thoughts on pedagogy does technology in the classroom help or hurt

A couple weeks back I had the great privilege to meet with some of the faculty and staff at the school where I attend, to discuss updating the classrooms on campus for better learning. The school was recently awarded a grant with this specific task in mind. One question raised

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Problems with WP 2.1 – Duplicate Posts and Comment Issues

I have experienced a couple different problems with my WordPress 2.1 install and so I thought I would note them here hoping they may help you out. 1. Duplicate posts was a major problem I ran into This was fixed by upgrading the plugin Sideblog. 2. Comments are not

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I Guess Not All Quakers are Pacifists

My buddy Chris turned me on to this article the other day, Palestinian Students Beaten and Called ‘Terrorists’ by Football Players at N.C. College “The five-minute attack involved at least 15 members of the football team,??? some of them drunk, the newspaper said, citing a police report and college

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Reading for Renewal within A Tradition

I’ve compiled some questions from my notes I took while reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s Whose Justice, Which Rationality? As I read Quaker history and theology I try to keep in mind these questions because they help to get at some essential issues that my tradition faces. Find the Primary