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We spent the day up in Cleveland for our anniversary today – it has been four wonderful years. 1. we went to cleveland heights and ate at Tommy’s restaraunt with Emily’s childhood Friend laura. 2. Then we visited Norka Futon because we are weird, everytime we go to CH,

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The Temptation to Stand for Nothing

“the temptation to stand for nothing” America is full of uber-evangelical-legalistic-rightwinged Christians that I along with my many post-evangelical colleagues have tried to forge a “third way” so to speak. What I mean is that I can be a ‘Christian’ (I am using the term loosely here) that is either

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two quotes from today: 1. Wess: “Who is the author that inspired you the most?” Nate: “J.D.E.P.” 2. “God came to get into the grave with us.” Ray Anderson

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As Most of you know I was a part of a roundtable discussion on Barclaypress.com – go to articles and look for roundtable…I would be interested to get feedback on the whole thing, I was also asked a question: Below I will post my first comment, the question, and

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finding the right wording to be saved

1. Emily and I are moving, again, our third apt. since we moved here! it is insane, and I hate moving BUT, our new apt. kicks some serious behind. We are saving a ton of money on rent, which is good since I can only work part-time till the middle

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I was apart of a roundtable discussion on “what is church” that was just published on the Evangelical Friends Barclay Press website – check it out. Barclay Press “What is Church”

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This weekend Emily and I went up to San Jose to kick if with my Cousin Rick and Julia, and their really cool little daughter Enya. We went to Berkeley on Saturday for part of the afternoon, which was really awesome. This was my first time in No.Cal and

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Moving Towards a Marginal Theology

I appreciate the article Charles has offered, because I have come to the similiar conclusions about the status of life within the Friends Church. I agree that we have sold our important marginalized/prophetic voice for the easy sales marketing approach to ecclesiology as proposed by Willow Creek and Saddleback,

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Forming the People of God

As I have finally finished my seventh quarter at Fuller, I begin a time of reflections about what I have learned and unlearned and all that in between. As I entered this qtr I was exhuasted, looking forward to a hopefully not-to-difficult 10 weeks of class work so that i

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In response to E-money’s comment June 3, 2005: I appreciate the comment, and I agree with your interpretation of making disciples and sharing the Gospel as primary to following Christ, and that this involves following God, no matter the cost (John 21:18-19). This is of course what being

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Zac Moon, Nevada Dessert Experience and Quakerism

met Zac Moon today from Nevada Dessert Experience, a Franciscan ministry that seeks to non-violently protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the nuclear test site in Nevada. I really enjoyed meeting with this fellow Quaker who comes as a radical Christian from the un-programmed group of Friends. In talking

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emily and i went to the 168 hour film fest last night, wow what a lamo experience. We watched 10 short films and not counting the one I worked on there were 3 that were done fairly well. the rest all could have come from highschoolers or fundamentalist christians who

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May 3, 2005 7:30:25 AM

Yesterday’s blog was a little more extreme than i had intended – I realized this after my loving wife pointed it out to me. My paraphrase of what the Psalm means in today’s world is heavy handed and tip my hand to theological leanings. One reason why it is

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May 2, 2005 8:03:50 AM scripture

today i read this as i was praying through Psalm 41. “Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive; they are called happy in the land. You do not give them up to the

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April 25, 2005 7:18:13 AM

what a weekend. starting with thursday i helped a buddy shoot his film for an LA wide event called 168. He asked me to shoot the whole thing but about 2 hours into it he took the camera and did it himself – so that was kind of a bummer. I

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April 17, 2005 10:08:45 PM

things: thoughts and mainly critiques. 1. what is my faith without it being radical? the modern day readers who find the Scriptures comforting and warming to the spirit have narrowed God down to a do-it-yourself spirituality – to a network television program about angels and miracles. when i read the end

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frosty

i just read a robert frost poem “reluctance” which was really good, it talked about seasons coming to an end, and how we are reluctant to let seasons (and loves) come to an end – that it is a part of humanity to be reluctant. i thought it was good. anyways

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I am a human being I am a White man and I bare the scares of those before me I am a critical person born to drug-doing, free-loving hippies I am a dreamer and I dream in my films I am a friend who wants to befriend the unlovely I

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Well this comes about two weeks after I put the first of these online discussions. Many haven’t yet written anything but that is okay I am going to do this a little longer, hoping to find some who are are interested in simple reflection. The passage below is the

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The Blind Man I have been thinking lately about doing something like what we used to do back in Canton for Bible study. It was biblical study based off the Quaker idea that all people are endowed with the Spirit of God to a greater or lesser extent depending on

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Useless in the kingdom what is theology if it doesn’t help humanity? we often make a theology, because that is what it is, human made, and render it divine. the problem with that is then that we make our human made theologies the the forms to which we must

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Talking Theology with James

Jim, Emily and I kicked it today in LA. We went through echo park, silverlake, los feliz, visiting clothing stores, eating good food, etc. Then Jim and I went to watch RK play in Hollywood. we had so much fun watching their new show and hanging with the guys afterwards,

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EB696″ cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2> What Napoleon Dynamite Character Are You? Name Age Favorite Color Choose One Flippin Sweet Heck Yeah Vote For Pedro You Guys Are So Retarded Idiots *Heavy Breath* Moon Boots Ligers You Are Rex How Much Of A Retard Are You? – 43% This cool quiz

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coming out of the muck

out of the muck im getting through. things are looking good today. I am coming back, up the long hall, still swinging, still crawling along. i am like S. Weaver in Aliens, or Arnold in terminator. Well not really, but it fun to sound tough. Actually things are on the

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lie, cheat…

dantecutoutfuzz5 Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. fess up, we all lie and cheat at some point, its just that not all get caught. fortunately most of us do, and that is when we learn to stop all that lying and cheating.