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Nancey Murphy & Christian Nonviolence

From “Dissident Discipleship (p.129),” After my colleague Nancey Murphy delievers an address in London, two Muslim men sought her out to ask, “Did we hear correctly? You are a Christian and you believe in nonviolence?” “Yes, I come from a long tradition, Anabaptism, which, like Jesus did, refuses violence.

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“Burned by Branding” Is Starbucks Getting Smaller?

Leadership Blog: Out of Ur: Burned by Branding: Here’s a post about the Ben posted a link to this post and it’s worth the read so I thought I’d also post it here as well. It concerns the influence of huge corporations and the mega-church models of

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Use Journaler for a Blogging Tool

I recently downloaded journaler, a free Mac Utility you can blog with. It is a fully featured program with tons of bells and whistles. If you have a mac and like to blog I’d check this out. It has a great UI: Here are some of the features: Entries

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Daily Scribe Jamboree November 26, 2006

This is my late edition of Daily Scribe links for the Week of November 20th. * Think Buddha considers Science and Buddhism * World of Your Making Discusses Emerging Theologians * The Mindful Mission discusses an uglier side to war-time

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10,000 Unique, Oh So Unique hits

Thanks to everyone who’s been reading this site over the years, and especially to all over you who participated in the various conversations over this past year as I migrated from Blogger to my own domain in April. Recently gathering in light broke the 10,000 unique hits mark

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And Now We’ve Got Notes

Yesterday I spent a little time reorganizing the sidebar, and cutting out some things here that were making my load time too long. So if you scan the sidebar on the front page you’ll see that I’ve added a “note pad.” It’s like asides only it’s

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Use Terra Pass to Help Reduce Emissions

I recently learned about Terra Pass, a company that sponsors CO2 reduction. What you do is find out how much emissions you create and then buy passes that act as investments in companies that set off those emissions. Of course the first hope is that we’ll just use less

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UCLA and the Taser Incident – We Tase in the Stacks Now

I don’t go to UCLA, but because I live in LA this incident hits close enough to home to draw some reflection and criticism from where I stand. If you’re not sure what I am talking about Slashdot has a succinct explanation based on the article in the

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Glory to God Designs and Melissa Tyson

With all this talk last week about consumerism and what not to buy I thought it might be fitting to point out someone who is doing a great job and is worth pointing out. I recently picked up a copy The Relevant Nation: 50 Activist, Artists And Innovators Who Are

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Happy Birthday Emily

Emily, my wife, turned 26 on Friday (the 17th). Thursday evening we celebrated by going out to dinner at a nice restaurant and and taking the night off. Friday evening, we stayed at home and made dinner and hung out with our housemates a bit. Emily and I met at

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FAQs: What is the value of confession?

Frequently Asked Questions (of a theologian) is a weekly segment where a guest or myself answers a question that gets commonly posed to theologians. The basic idea is to take a theological question and offer an answer that is concise and useful for ‘everyone else.’ If you’d like to

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Join Me on Buy Nothing Day – November 25th

As a follow-up from yesterday’s article I wanted to mention “Buy Nothing Day.” Adbusters does an event every year where they encourage people to not shop on one of the biggest shopping days of the year – November 25th (Saturday). Emily and I will be joining them and I’d

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Culture Jam and the Radical Reformation

I just finished reading “Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge–And Why We Must” (Kalle Lasn) for the first time over the weekend. This was another book assigned for Ryan’s class, which I will be leading a discussion on this coming thursday. Sometimes I wonder

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Review of Reviewme.com

Just the other day, a new service became available: reviewme.com. It is a service that pays bloggers to review websites and products. It’s similar to many things that already happen now, where bloggers get sent books and other products for free in lieu of writing reviews about those

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Have a MacHeist Invite on Me

I have five Mac Heist invites left, let me know if you want one in the comments. The first week’s contest is only half way over and you still have time to complete it. First five in the comments that want it can have it. Technorati Tags: apple, macheist

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Global Warming Video and Blue Guys?

A friend emailed me this today, and I thought it was an informative and entertaining video from the Blue Men Group. I’ve never seen much from these guys, but they are intriguing. [gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8453442377878175440&hl=en” flashvars=embedded” width=”200px”

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Ted Haggard and Jim Wallis: A Couple Brief Thoughts

I found this post over at God’s Politics – Jim Wallis’ blog it was a statement about Ted Haggard and the issues that were raised in the last couple weeks, and I think it’s really good to read. My impression of this whole thing is that like everything else,

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FAQs: Why Go to Fuller Seminary for Your Ph.D.?

Sorry we missed the FAQs last week, I was swamped, but we’re back and I’ve got some great guests coming up in the next month. This segment is officially called “FAQs of a Theologian” and it is where I or my theologian guests answer a question that often

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Book Review: How (Not) To Speak of God – Peter Rollins with Special Offer

Peter Rollins founder of the Ikon Community , an emerging church in Ireland, has recently penned “How (Not) to Speak of God” (Peter Rollins).” It is a book that will be important for every church to wrestle with. Rollins writes as one who is both theologian/philosopher (he has a Ph.

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Customized Emerging Church Google Search Engine

I spent a couple hours this morning creating a customized emerging church search engine using Google’s new Co-op feature. I’ve added tons and tons of websites and blogs that deal with emerging church issues. My sources for this list came from Scot McKnight, Ryan Bolger, The Daily Scribe,

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Convergent Friends Google Group Now Open

I’ve done a little work and got a google group going for convergent Friends and it’s up and running. There are some pretty neat features that this group offers: 1. It’s got a built in list-serve email, where you can subscribe and send emails for larger conversations.

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Daily Scribe Jamboree November 3, 2006

I missed last week’s “Jamboree” so I thought I’d post a couple articles from both weeks. The Daily Scribe is a blogging community of religious bloggers who write on a variety of subjects and come from a variety of religions. You’ll definitely want to read on, as

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Setting Up Delicious for Researching The Web

One of my favorite free, online tools is the social bookmarking website known as delicious (see my del.icio.us). Because I read a lot of blogs, and visit websites all the time I need a way to remember which ones were really good, which ones offer great critiques about

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Help Vote In a Scholarship for Paul

I know I don’t normally do stuff like this but it seems like a worthy cause. I read and often cite Paul Stamatiou’s blog (a College student from Virgina Georgia Tech), and appreciate the stuff I learn from his site. In fact, many of his tutorials, reviews and

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Surviving a Study Program With EarPlugs, a Hiding Place, and Lots of Coffee.

We had a great, and much needed, weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped to make my birthday awesome. Emily and I took it easy all day Saturday. It was good because I actually feel pretty well-rested and ready to go. The next couple weeks are going to get crazy around