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Create a Moleskine PDA: The Student GTD Hack

A couple weeks back, I stumbled upon what seems like a small culture of people who have backed away from the “pure paperless ideology.” They are using small notebooks (Moleskines) to manage the tasks and projects in their lives. I’ve researched a bunch of various methods and learned a

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5 Streams of The Emerging Church and Convergent Friends (?)

My Friend Jarrod McKenna sent me a link to this article the other, it’s written by Scot McKnight,  professor of religious studies at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. The Article is called “Five Streams of the Emerging Church.” Here is a long quote from the article: To define

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1 Year Blog-Anniversary Giveaway

Posted Edited 1.29 (See below): Today is the one year anniversary of gatheringinlight.com and my migration over to WordPress. 365 days ago I moved my blog from blogger to hosted wordpress account and bought this domain name. And I’ve decided to have a giveaway where anyone Can

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Thoughts on Pedagogy: Does Technology in The Classroom Help or Hurt?

A couple weeks back I had the great privilege to meet with some of the faculty and staff at the school where I attend, to discuss updating the classrooms on campus for better learning.  The school was recently awarded a grant with this specific task in mind. One question raised

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Thoughts on pedagogy does technology in the classroom help or hurt

A couple weeks back I had the great privilege to meet with some of the faculty and staff at the school where I attend, to discuss updating the classrooms on campus for better learning.  The school was recently awarded a grant with this specific task in mind. One question raised

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Reading for Renewal within A Tradition

I’ve compiled some questions from my notes I took while reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s Whose Justice, Which Rationality? As I read Quaker history and theology I try to keep in mind these questions because they help to get at some essential issues that my tradition faces. Find the Primary

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DVDevos – Video Devotionals for Visual Christians

This week I wanted to highlight the ministry of two Evangelical Friends and some of the cool things they’re doing. Matt Taflan and Shawn Belt, both from Ohio, have joined together in Florida to make short video devotionals they are calling DVDevos.  They see this as an opportunity to

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Become a Clean Slate Poser in 3 Easy Steps

Due to the small phenomena created by the recent battle of the Clean Slate bands, I thought it would be cool to have others join in the fun.  So if you would like to join the Clean Slate fan club, better known as the Clean Slate Posers here’s how.

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FAQs: What is Worship? (Pastoral Quaker Perspective)

In reading Thomas Hamm’s absolutely wonderfulQuakers in America I came across a good quote about how virtually all pastoral Friends today would agree on what the Richmond Declaration says about worship, the statement comes from the Declaration which is actually highly disputed but Hamm believes most would get behind

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Methods in History: Learning a Few New Tricks

I hate to apologize for not writing anything meaningful lately because then I have to admit that it’s true, but I am going to do it anyways.  Sorry for all these short posts to the notepad but that’s about all I have time for lately. I’ve got

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Left Behind Video Game Hopes to Improve Public Relations Before It’s Too Late

[Edited to Add Picture Link see the bottom of post for more details] I’ve writen a couple time on the new Left Behind Video Game called “Eternal Forces.” Post #1 — Left Behind Eternal Forces: Violence for Christians Post #2 Training Violent Behaviors: Media and the Message of Desensitization [rant]

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Gathering In Light 2006: A Year in Review

This past year has been a lot of fun on many fronts for me but I’ve had an especially great time blogging in 2006.  I thought it would be fun to post some of the things that standout in my memory as important events for gathering in light and

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Book Review on Brian McLaren’s “The Secret Message of Jesus”

This is a guest post, reprinted with permission, Review and rant by Jarrod McKenna. What’s emerging out of the “emerging church movement”? Ever wonder what will emerge out of the ‘emerging church movement’?  Watching from the very different context of Australia it’s interesting to observe some of the

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Blogging Goals for G.i.L. in 2007 – A Blogger’s New Year’s Resolution

The new year is finally here, not that I was in a rush to get here but with a sense of anticipation we’re facing another year of exciting prospects. In keeping with a trend common among many bloggers (see Copy Blogger, Fernando and Glenn Worsely) I thought I’d

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Some of My Favorite 2006 Mac Weblogs

I love using a mac and I love to keep up with all the new tricks, tips, shareware and freeware that that mac community continues to make.  Over the past year I’ve found some great Apple bloggers who know their stuff, and who have helped me to hone my

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Three Queries on Communal Spiritual Growth

The other day on my way home I was thinking about my faith and stumbled upon three questions I thought worthy of thinking through aloud with you: 1. How do I love you God? 2. How do We love you God? 3. How do they love you God? These are

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Jarrod McKenna and the Peace Tree Receive Quaker Peace Award

Just today I got an email from Jarrod McKenna, a Christian activist who lives Down Under. He says of himself, “I’m a lapsed vegetarian who’ll now eat happily my daily bread from dumpsters (but secretly longs for the flesh pots of evil big corporation burgers.) I spend my

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Daily Scribe Jamboree December 10, 2006

Here are the postings from the Daily Scribe for this past week: * Daniel Harper Discusses what Church 2.0 might look like. * Boy in Bands points out that St. Nick is the people’s saint. * Chris from Katagrapho is beginning a long discussion on Ephesians complete with exegesis. Technorati Tags:

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FAQs: What are the practices of Quakers?

“Frequently Asked Questions” is a segment on this site where basic questions get answered from people with theological training.  If you’re interested in asking a Question you can contact me, otherwise you can visit the FAQ category or it’s corresponding wiki for more information. This week’s question

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FAQs: What is the value of confession?

Frequently Asked Questions (of a theologian) is a weekly segment where a guest or myself answers a question that gets commonly posed to theologians.  The basic idea is to take a theological question and offer an answer that is concise and useful for ‘everyone else.’  If you’d like to

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Culture Jam and the Radical Reformation

I just finished reading “Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge–And Why We Must” (Kalle Lasn) for the first time over the weekend. This was another book assigned for Ryan’s class, which I will be leading a discussion on this coming thursday.   Sometimes I wonder

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FAQs: Why Go to Fuller Seminary for Your Ph.D.?

Sorry we missed the FAQs last week, I was swamped, but we’re back and I’ve got some great guests coming up in the next month.  This segment is officially called “FAQs of a Theologian” and it is where I or my theologian guests answer a question that often

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Book Review: How (Not) To Speak of God – Peter Rollins with Special Offer

Peter Rollins founder of the Ikon Community , an emerging church in Ireland, has recently penned “How (Not) to Speak of God” (Peter Rollins).”  It is a book that will be important for every church to wrestle with.  Rollins writes as one who is both theologian/philosopher (he has a Ph.

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Customized Emerging Church Google Search Engine

I spent a couple hours this morning creating a customized emerging church search engine using Google’s new Co-op feature. I’ve added tons and tons of websites and blogs that deal with emerging church issues.  My sources for this list came from Scot McKnight, Ryan Bolger, The Daily Scribe,

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Convergent Friends Google Group Now Open

I’ve done a little work and got a google group going for convergent Friends and it’s up and running. There are some pretty neat features that this group offers: 1. It’s got a built in list-serve email, where you can subscribe and send emails for larger conversations.