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America’s Overbearing Appetite

Emily pointed this political cartoon out to me the other day. It’s more true than we’d like to admit.

There’s Little Time When You’re On the Run – Some Birthday Trinkets

[Edited Twice] Lately I’ve been pretty under-the-gun with school work, and all the extra things going on. I don’t have much time to do some of those I love doing. I hope to write soon about all the stuff I’ve had my hands in but for now

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Part 2 of FAQs: Books on Biblical Interpretation

Part two on FAQs of a Theologian: Answering “What are some good books (and why) that can help me get started in biblical hermeneutics?” This post focuses on the books part of the question. From Dr. Chris Spinks After all of this let me list a few good books that

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FAQs: What Are Some Good Books on Biblical Hermenuetics?

This two part article has been contributed by Dr. Chris Spinks. I’ve broken up the question and post into two portions. I’ve been asked to contribute to the “ask a theologian” series. Here’s the question as it was asked to Wess and now to me: “What are

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FAQs of a Theologian Revised

It’s only been a week since I did my first Q & A here, but the response was great and everyone seemed to be pretty excited about having basic questions answered here. So I’ve gone and changed it a little to make it a bit more interactive, and

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The Daily Scribe Project Has Re-Opened

UPDATE:10.24 There have been a number of issues that came up over the future of the Daily Scribe, a religious blogging community aimed at “content” driven bloggers of various faith traditions, an aggregator driven site with 49 members a part of the community. Shawn Anthony of Lo-Fi Tribe

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Daily Scribe Jamboree October 20, 2006

Here are some posts from around the religious globe of the Daily Scribe. * Mike from Thoughts on Spirituality, Liturgy and Religion points to a couple articles about Harry Potter and the Communion of the Saints. * Over at Kesher talk there’s an interesting commentary on “Manly Virtues.” * And speaking of

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FAQs of a Theologian: Can you explain to me what prayer means to a christian?

I’ve had for sometime the idea to write posts based on questions I am asked via email or questions that people ask google and somehow land on my site. In fact I’ve been compiling some questions since early this summer on my Theo.edit (my wiki). Thus I

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Training Violent Behaviors: Media and the Message of Desensitization

I had the opportunity to read a fascinating and very thought provoking book this past week called, “Transforming the Powers: Peace, Justice and the Domination System.” The basic idea of the book is taken from Walter Wink’s idea of the “powers and principalities” which consist of the “spiritual dynamics

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Alasdair Macintyre On Rights and Protest: Are We Just Talking To Ourselves?

In keeping with the conversation at bay, MacIntyre’s words on protest are fitting. In his seminal work “After Virtue” he focuses on arguing how and why the “Enlightenment project” failed. Essentially it is because the modern period has stripped away from humanity any social context in which to couch

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The Yes and No of Protest: When Symbols Don’t Align With Our Reality

Much gets said about protest, some people like protesting and fill their lives with it, some have extremely negative feelings and argue it’s a waste of time and something Christians should not do. I’d like to briefly discuss what it means to be focused on the “Yes” of

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Daily Scribe Jamboree October 6, 2006

Here we find ourselves finally in October, my favorite month of the year (mainly for selfish reasons). Some good things about October are the fall (which typically means leaves turning beautiful vibrant colors), cleveland browns football, oktoberfests, halloween, (my birthday), and the return of cooler weather. However, in LA there

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An Iraq Exit Strategy Some Ideas On How to Leave From Jim Wallis

While at the politics and spirituality conference we got to hear Wallis, Richard Rohr and Anne Lamott speak. They were also given time after their talks to answer questions from them audience. This gave a bit of a chance for the rest of us to interact a little with the

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Finding the Right Bike for Your Commute

I mentioned earlier that I recently bought a new [used] bike and I debated on whether to say anything about it here, I wasn’t really sure anyone would care. But because I love bikes and blogging so much I finally broke down and thought I’d give a few

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I Finally Got My NRSV Pocket Bible

Evangelicals like there bibles, and in this way I am absolutely no different than any of my other evangelical brothers and sisters. Now my views on inspiration, interpretation, and the canon span the theological spectrum but that’s for another day. I’ve got a few bibles more than I

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An Ordinary Revolution You Probably Shouldn’t Miss

I just finished Shane Claiborne’s Irresistible Revolution,” which is the first assignment for the class I am teacher’s aid for and I thought it was a fantastic read. In fact, if you’ve got nothing better to do in the next thirty minuets go out and pick up

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A Quarter With Alasdair MacIntyre

Yesterday I started class. Now it’s official, I have been a doctoral student for 1 day, and at the moment I am still pretty excited about this new adventure (and also unsure, I must confess). I am taking a class with Dr. Nancey Murphy where we will be studying

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How to Setup Your Blog (WordPress) For Students

This was cross-posted over on Ryan Bolger’s class blog, which I wanted to announce anyway. If you’re interested in seeing what we’ll be up to this quarter jump on over there and check it out. I am looking forward to the class I am a teacher’s

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Smplr — A Beautiful and Simple Homepage Search

Nik, top notched web-designer from Scary Little Monkey, has created a smplr. A simple homepage search engine that sends queries to google. So why use it instead of google? Because it looks ten times better and it loads faster. So not only is it nice to look at and it

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Some (Borrowed) Quaker Queries on Simplicity

Awhile back I visited a nearby Quaker meeting with Robin and Chris while they were in town. It was my first experience in an unprogrammed meeting and I really appreciated my experience there and it got me thinking more about queries. One thing I have always loved about Quaker practice

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Daily Scribe Jamboree September 24, 2006

The Daily Scribe has grown out of it’s wordpress skin and so things a getting changed around a bit over at the top religious aggregator site on the web, so go by and check out some of the changes. Here are a few links from this past week, which

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Moving Our Conversations Beyond Just Talk: Affirming Practices in Others

My last post about Jim Wallis’ new blog has generated an important discussion that’s got me thinking not only about the leaders we support but also what things about those leaders we support and where we draw the line (this post may not make a lot of sense unless

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I’ve liked the stuff that Sojourners has been putting out as long as I have known about them, they focus on many issues that face the church from a position that tries to bring together conservative and liberal Christianity. This has been something Jim Wallis has focused on repeatedly,

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Live Update – Now Finished

This morning I came over to Fuller’s Coffee Shop, made myself a mug of Cafe’ au Lait, plugged in my iPod and am listening to Starflyer 59’s new album, My Island. I’ve cracked open mywebsite code, uploaded the bleeding-edge version of Subtle, and am doing a few

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Daily Scribe Jamboree September 15, 2006

This week has been a busy one for me, I had a bunch of homework to turn in today but I always have a little time to browse a few blogs. Here are some noteworthy posts for the week… A few posts from The Daily Scribe: Wildhunt wonders if there