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The Beatitudes Society @ Fuller Seminary

I must continue with my thoughts regarding this past weekend, there is so much to talk about! And in order to do that I thought I’d start with a little about The Beatitudes Society and what it is. A while back in the spring I think it was, I

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What Do I Mean by Small Churches?

There was a question about what I meant in terms of a small church from a commenter the other day, I thought I’d address here. In response, when I think of a “small church” I think of a place that you are able to know and be known by

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Hauerwas and a Faith and Practice for Emerging Churches

Today I spent time reading a dissertation by a now-graduated Fuller student named Brad Kallenberg. And I found something interesting that points toward a strength within Quaker theory and how it might help other young churches.??? In his (dishearteningly thick) dissertation Changing the subject in postmodernity : Narrative ethics and philosophical

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Do Not Be Afraid…

I spent this past weekend at the Politics and Spirituality conference with the Beatitudes Society both of which I have much to write about and will do so over the next week or two. But in this moment I continue to think of this day as the anniversary of September

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Daily Scribe Jamboree: September 9, 2006

Here are some interesting links from The Daily Scribe from this past week… Crookedshore writes about Luke 19 – the Parable of the Minas. He asks concerning the third servant: The question for me is why he failed to put this money to work? And what has this to do with

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Things I Value in A Church: A Confession of Faith?

After writing three posts about things to look for when church shopping, I got to thinking about what things people would be looking for when they asked those questions. I am of the opinion that we all have certain things we look for when trying to find a church. So

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In My Alternate Life…

Emily likes to play this game where we talk about what we’d be doing in alternate lives. We went camping this past week, and she asked all of us there what we’d be doing in our alternate lives. Well as these things go I like to play around

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How Do We Look For The Theology of A Church? Part III

Many of us have visited multiple churches in our lives, some stand out more and other’s we probably don’t remember much about. For many people what stands out most is what happens during the service, the kind of preaching, what was preached, the music, how the sacraments were

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Daily Scribe Jamboree 09012006

This week there were some great articles I wanted to point out from the gang at the daily scribe. * Camassia has a very thoughtful post on that fits well with my posts on church shopping as she writes out some ideas on how churches can welcome strangers better. * Over at

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How Do We Look For the Theology of A Church? Part I

Emily and I are back from our 2 week vacation in the Midwest. We had a lovely time seeing family in Friends in Ohio, and Nashville. And we thoroughly enjoyed our anniversary which we spent in Ludington Michigan at a great Bed and Breakfast called Cartier Mansion. I will post

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Daily Scribe Jamboree 082506

Here are some fancy links for your blog reading pleasure. Nathan writes a book review on A Heretics Guide to Eternity??? by Spencer Burke and Fuller Prof. Barry Taylor. He sums the book up with this sentence, Religion declares that we are separated from God, that we are outsiders. Grace

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The Rise of Christian Terrorism: Fear Based Religion

I admit that can be hard on the church from time to time, but this is in part because I believe that we have such a grave responsibility to bear peace and reconciliation to the world. In this way I tend to enjoy people like Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder,

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Five Year Anniversary August 18

On Friday, August 18th, Emily and I will celebrate 5 years of marriage. We are driving up to Ludington Michigan where we’ve rented a little cottage on the Lake for a little peace and rest. We’re both really happy to have some time to ourselves but also sad

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Scribe Jamboree:August 16 2006

Here are few good reads from the folks over at the Daily Scribe. From “A People So Bold” a post about Reinhold Niebuhr‘s stance on nationalism. Quoting Niebuhr, “The gospel cannot be preached with truth and power if it does not challenge the pretensions and pride, not only of

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Books For An Introduction To Studying Bible and Theology

My housemate Chase and I were having lunch the other day and we started talking about important books that we would use if we were going to teach Bible and Theology students. Now granted we’re both from more of an Evangelical stream of Christianity so I recognize that some

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Ceasefire Campaign – Petition to Put Pressure on Leaders

Every now and then I like to have little bits of activism promoted through my site, ones that I feel are not too weird or are doing something worthwhile. Kent, PhD student in Ethics and Mennonite, sent me a link to the Ceasefire Campaign and I think it fits the

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What Are Your Favorite Quaker Books?

I just finished reading Martin’s post about him finally finishing John Woolman’s Journal and it got me thinking about how I enjoyed Woolman’s journal so much. Then I started thinking more about books (not something that’s all that hard to do, really.) This reminded me to

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Queries from the Gathering

Well in short our meeting last night was wonderful, there was a group of about 13 adults, 4 children (and a few lovely mennonite-volunteers) and I think it would be safe to say we all enjoyed ourselves and learned a lot from each other. For now I thought I would

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John Steinbeck’s East of Eden

A long while back I finished East of Eden, a Novel I’d been working on for months. I wanted to write out some quotes and thoughts I had while I was reading it, because it has such a profound effect on me, but I never got around to posting

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Scribe Jamboree for Friday August 4

In an attempt to get more connected with our friends within the Daily Scribe blogging community we’ve decided to post links to other’s blogs weekly (for me it will probably be less occasional than that). We’re calling this the The Daily Scribe Jamboree, and we will be

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Reflections on Doing Quaker Research

For class we were asked to write a short reflection on our spiritual journey and how it’s led us to doing the kinds of dissertations we’re preparing for. I thought I would post it mainly because I don’t think I’ve written much about my personal journey,

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Schedule for Convergent Friends Gathering August 5th 2006

Chris and I powered out a schedule of sorts for this coming saturday so that we have something to work off of. I have also discussed this with Robin so I am confident that our gathering will be fruitful and a lot of fun. The reason we planned something out

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Research Design – Some Preliminary Questions

Today we spent 8:30-5 minus 1.5 hours for lunch talking about what research is, why it’s important, what our research will entail and why we are doing it. It wasn’t a bad day, considering how long the day was I was able to stay pretty well

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So School Begins Today: What’s Coming up For Gathering In Light

This past friday I finished up one year tenure as Fuller Seminary’s textbook buyer. I began working at the bookstore in the beginning of summer 2005 and shortly thereafter I took over with this full-time position. Well, even though I had a hard time adjusting to full-time work and