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Ryan Bolger on NPR’s Airtalk

If you get a chance check out Ryan Bolger’s Interview on 89.3 KPCC | AirTalk hosted by Larry Mantle. Find March 2nd, and it is under the heading Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures.??? Not only is it a really good interview with Ryan, but its a nice brief

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This Month on BarclayPress.com

A couple weeks back I wrote a short post about my review on Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs’s book Emerging Churches for BarclayPress.com. For the whole month of march BP will be hosting a discussion on the book, so I invite all those who faithfully read this blog

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Prosecutor calls foul on XFBA

A continuing saga on the XFBA. Today’s article at cantonrep.com story by Todd Porter Warrants were issued Tuesday for the arrest of Michael Willis Heard and Gregory Railey Jr. after City Prosecutor Frank Forchione charged each with four counts of theft by deception.

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Bo Bannister Brilliance: Gender Inclusive Pronoun Revealed

Bo Bannister Finally Reveals the Gender Inclusive Pronoun That’s right Bo’s stroke of brilliance should not be ignored: We all know that we need a gender neutral/inclusive/3rd person/singular/human pronoun besides “it”. We have been waiting and waiting for the grammarians to introduce a new

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Today’s Article on the XFBA

cantonrep.com When marketing staffers asked Heard where the tickets were, they said none existed. They were, in essence, selling tickets to games that never were scheduled because no arenas has been secured. I got fired for asking where were the tickets,??? former marketing staffer Sheneva Williams said. I don

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Critiques and Possibilities: Evangelicalism Part IV

This is the continuation of a larger discussion I am working on, here is part I, part II, and part III. Spiritually Transformed Life #5 – The spiritually transformed life has become for many the end all be all of Christian existence. Of course again there is nothing unbiblical about a

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XFBA Flyer – Have You Seen This?

Take a look at this. Its really what it looks like. And the XFBA make WKYC Television here is the link. Technorati Tags: church_issues, church_scam, xfba, xzuberant

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How a Small Blog Made a Big Difference

The Canton Repository’s Todd Porter has published two new articles on the Xzuberant Faith Basketball scam that happened in northeastern Ohio. For other stories from the Canton Rep and the work I’ve done on the situation visit my XFBA resource page. 1. Father of XFBA administrator reaches out

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LawSchoolBlog.org: How To Ruin Your Law Career

LawSchoolBlog.org: How To Ruin Your Law Career in three easy steps. read this from the bottom up. its a good laugh.

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Quaker Heritage Day

Thanks to Robin M, a fellow Quaker blogger, Emily and I found out about Quaker Heritage Day and will be attending.   I am excited to see that Peggy Senger Parsons will be speaking as I have enjoyed reading her thoughts on her blog. &

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Hunger for Justice » 8 causes of global hunger Last night, I went to an amazing presentation at Holy Family Church in South Pasadena. They are hosting a series called Hunger and Hope in Our World: Sudan to Southern California.”

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Mac Attack – Ibook Battery Replacement

I needed to buy a new battery for my ibook a few weeks back, because the one that came with the laptop has dwindled down to only holding a charge for about 20 minuets. A 20 min. life for a laptop battery pretty much sucks so I went to the

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my first music video directing debut

Richard Kentopp, a good friend of mine and student at Fuller, is the the singer and songwriter for a band called Books Died On. Some have considered it Baroque Pop, Indie-Tronic (electronic indie) or Grind Core; Richard calls them “rock, post hardcore,” I just call them one good ol’ time.

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Tax Breaks Given on Gas-Guzzling SUVs

Tax Breaks Given on Gas-Guzzling SUVs – Yahoo! News LOS ANGELES – New tax breaks are available to anyone who wants to help the environment by purchasing fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. But if owners of small businesses really want to save money, they can get even bigger federal tax breaks by buying the

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Critiques and Possibilities: Evangelicalism Part III

I’ve been working on a series of posts concerning Evangelicalism and when I get to it Quakerism. Visit my “Series on Evangelicalism” under the Featured page for the rest of the posts on this topic. In the last post I explained two different definitions which arise, the sociological standpoint

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What Evangelicalism is: Part II

I have a disclaimer to make, I’ve been working on these posts for the past week, and as of last night I’ve had to rewrite and change course for this discussion. This is largely due to a conversation that I had with two good friends James Pitts and

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XFBA Canton Repository Article #4

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Reflections on Evangelicalism Part I

Reflection on the State of Evangelicalism At Fuller we obviously talk a lot about American Culture, fundamentalism’s effects on American Evangelicalism and American Politics and the plight of Christianity in general. These tend to be radically diverse conversations, represented by a variety of voices within the student body. What

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drew girton

Drew’s new blog is right here – check it out: wrestling with truth technorati tags: blogs, drew_girton

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XFBA in Rep Again.

There is a new Canton Rep Article on the XFBA scam cantonrep.comtechnorati tags: xfba, church_scams

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Presenting: Letters Home

I would like to announce that Emily, my wife, has now published her blog and is working on keeping it up to date. Its called Letters Home, and in it she will be wrestling with being an 9th and 10th Grade English teacher in an urban school, as well as

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quakers, sacraments and practices

AJ Schwanz has once again written a thoughtful post about Quakers ideas of the sacraments. She’s been reading Bolger’s book and this of course brings up many questions about the use of sacraments for old and new faith communities. Many Emerging Churches do away with the wafer and

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Xzuberant faith makes Canton Repository

**Looking for the XFBA Archive Page, it’s been moved. Look here. Todd Porter sports writer for the Canton Repository wrote two articles concerning the Xzuberant Faith Basketball Association today. Article One Article Two You will most likely have to register for an account, but its not too hard. Here

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writing letters with bread for the world’s holly hight

Last night our mennonite/quaker small group wrote letters to our congressional representatives concering hunger issues in the world. It was my first time to participate in this kind of advocacy and I thought that it was incredible. It only took about 15 min. to write the letters, and I

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Emerging Church Book Review and Barclay Press

[this post was edited to reflect the publication of the review on BP]. This weekend I finished two big tasks I’ve been working on for a while. For one thing, I completed my book review for Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibb’s book, Emerging Churches which is now published