Gathering In Light (Page 59)

christmas a couple days early

Emily bought for me Ecto today – a web-blog publishing platform fully equipped to keep me busy working on posts, and glued to the blue screen of my ibook. Currently I am trying to figure out the whole badge process – which typically I would be opposed to, I am not much

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christmas and Quakers

Street Corner Society offers a very thoughtful look into Quaker practices concerning the holidays. This feeds into and also challenges what I said yesterday. Technorati Tags: Christmas, quakerism, theology

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testing new ways

I’ve been toying around with new blog templates, haloscan and ecto so forgive the multiple changes updates lately I am trying to get this right. Technorati Tags: test

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Cristes maese and the American Soul

So today Emily and I worked my last day of work for about 10 days. We are ready for a break, who isn’t really. It seems like our world is built around a “dog eat dog” mentality – this is nothing new, the trouble is, is when it carries over

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thoughts on class

This past quarter i had the great privilege to be Ryan Bolger’s teaching assistant for his class Transforming Contemporary Cultures. He has done a great post reflecting on things he’s learned from the standpoint of the teacher based on the students comments the last day of class. Taking

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one more moment of tech stuff

Okay – I confess that I’ve been a little distracted by all the tech stuff as of late and sorry for the less thoughtful thoughts instead, about “haloscan” and other strange things. But I’ve been looking around alot for new social software, and other freeware types of things that

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a ton of really cool stuff

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 (web2.wsj2.com)this website has links to some really cool software I didn’t know anything about.the writely is the best thing on the list I’ve checked out so far. technorati tags: technology, free_software Technorati Tags: free_software,

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Silence II

So I have to consider that I am at times hard on myself, while at other times way too easy. But in either case my last post about silence might have been a bit modernistic. It was as though to say that reading, listening to music, and participating in other

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A review about “Bob Dylan – No Direction Home”

a great film about bob, the story bounces back and forth a bit too much makes it hard to follow at times but dylan is great as usual. See more about Bob Dylan – No Direction Home Technorati Tags: bob_dylan

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Silence Would Be Better

Today has been one of those days where there is so much to be said, all of it sitting on the tip of my tongue and yet none of it able to fall forth on the page. I’ve had such a hard time thinking lately, like things are cloudy,

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Why Blog?

Its funny that there tends to be the need to do an apology for blogging; this fact is evidence that we are still a part of something that is very new – something that hasn’t become widely understood or accepted. Not that its not acceptable to blog, but just that

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under the green hill: Time Stands Still

under the green hill: Time Stands Still Here is more on the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Thanks Simon.

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Western European Studies Section: WESSWEB

I found a page that explains who or what I am…

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Pastor Comes President

Jim Brennemann, our beloved pastor (and my OT Prof.) is now becoming the president of Goshen college, we are really excited for him.

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Spero News | Religious bloggers quiet about Christian hostages

Here’s an article from Spero News (google news also has it) that my blog made yesterday concerning the Christian Peacemaker Teams.

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Who Goes There? or Knowing the Betrayer…

The pedophilia – recently we got into a discussion about sexual harassment, pedophilia, etc in our church threaded discussion email. A friend brought up the point that our lovely Mennonite church doesn’t have much put in place to protect children from suspected pedophiles. Here is the first problem – we have

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Last Night at the Knitting Factory

Jeremy, Noah, Lambert and I all went to the Knitting Factory last night to see our friend Alan, who has been going to our Mennonite church, rock it out with his band “Your Enemies Friends.”

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Who Goes There?

The pedophilia – recently we got into a discussion about sexual harassment, pedophilia, etc in our church threaded discussion email. A friend brought up the point that our lovely Mennonite church doesn’t have much put in place to protect children from suspected pedophiles. Here is the first problem – we have

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It’s witness time (Quaker Ranter)

It’s witness time (Quaker Ranter) More stuff on nonviolence.org concerning the Christian Peacemaker Team from my Friend Martin Kelley over in NJ.

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Tom Fox

NPR has a short radio spot on the Quaker Tom Fox and other Christian Peacemaker Team members who were recently kiddnapped. technorati tags: quakers, NPR

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Truth Seeker

Truth Seeker A student in class posted this reminder of World AID day.

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Thanksgiving

Emily and I spent thanksgiving with our friends Jeremy and Jenn Seifert, their newborn baby Finn, and a couple guys who were neighbors. Here are some photos from the day. It was really nice to be with friends for the day and we ate some really great food. It was

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A Thought On Relient K

This past friday we spent the evening with our good friends Relient K. They played at the Henry Fonda theatre to a sell out crowd of bloodthirsty teenagers, screaming “I Love you Matt” and similar silhouettes of previous times when young rock n’rollers were seen as gods for the

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getting back to things

I have taken a bit of a hiatus from the world of blogging, primarily beacuse I have been recovering from writing the Barclay Press entries. I was asked to review Ryan Bolger’s new book “Emerging Churches” for Barclay Press’s book review in February. I am really excited about

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The leveling of seminary

I just thought of something, seminary has this odd leveling affect for people who are both liberal and conservative according to roles in the household. The standard conservative, patriarchial view on roles is that men support the wives, but the catch 22 of this for conservatives who are married is