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Convergent Friends An Introduction by Rachel Stacy

Rachel Stacy, a young Quaker woman and soon to be graduate from Earlham School of Religion, with a double major in religion and chemistry, recently finished her final school project for a class in contemporary religious movements. She decided to do the final research project on convergent Friends and has

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Celtic Treasure: Daily Scriptures and Prayer

“Celtic Treasure: Daily Scriptures and Prayer” by J. Philip Newell is a great book for family devotions.  Emily and I got it a year ago and often use it when we have prayer times together.  It’s really easy to follow and has beautiful prayers and pictures painted by the

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The Yes and No of Protest: When Symbols Don’t Align With Our Reality

Much gets said about protest, some people like protesting and fill their lives with it, some have extremely negative feelings and argue it’s a waste of time and something Christians should not do. I’d like to briefly discuss what it means to be focused on the “Yes” of

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How to Setup Your Blog (WordPress) For Students

This was cross-posted over on Ryan Bolger’s class blog, which I wanted to announce anyway.  If you’re interested in seeing what we’ll be up to this quarter jump on over there and check it out.  I am looking forward to the class I am a teacher’s

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A Simple and Silent Worship Service

Last night we hosted our small group over at our house. I was in charge of planning for the evening so I pieced together a worship/prayer/contemplative time that included bits and pieces of prayers from a Celtic prayer book I have, the Book of Common Prayer, Quaker queries

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A Nose Dive – Site Down

Today gatheringinlight.com took a nose dive.  While working on editing my new theme supported by Eric Taylor’s K2 Reloaded I decided to clear out some of my old plugins I never use, unfortunately you cannot delete active wordpress plugins, you must deactivate them first or else your site

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Kicking it Quaker Style

Emily and I had a blast this weekend up in Berkeley, a place we could easily imagine living.  We went up for Quaker Heritage Day, a one-day conference held at Berkeley Friends Church (part of F.U.M) where we talked about the future of the Friends church.  The main

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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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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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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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a disappearing act? xfba comments

Further investigation into the XFBA matter leaves us with these points: 1. The XFBA.org website is being dismantled (either that or edited to reflect the major changes in the organization).  The front page no longer leads to any links into the information on their website, you have to access

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lifeasmission.com

Over at lifeasmission.com, JR writes a well thought out and well defined review of George Barna’s revolution.  In wondering whether he is really a revoltionary or not, JR discovers that Barna’s own conclusions are still to individualist and based too much on statistics and not enough on

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when the buzzer sounds – xfba basketball

Ok – I’ve been holding my metaphoric tongue but there is a news flash  concerning the XFBA (xzuberant faith basketball association). I’ve had tons of comments and hits of the blog today and this deems posting. largest set of comments another set of comments Here is what we know

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learning that makes for practice

Ryan and Eddie’s class started last night, MC535 “Emerging Churches,” of which I will assist in the grading and ideas-sharing of the course.  Its fun to be in class while standing on the other side of the desk so to speak.  Stitting there last night, instead of frantically trying

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out in the open

Well I have felt a little reluctant to say much more, the comments are coming pretty quickly, many hits are happening on my blog, and so its kind of doing its own thing, but then there is more that has come to light concerning this whole matter involving the XFBA

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encouraging comments about the league

Here is new, and much more encouraging information, creating more accuracy with statements said here on this site and in other places as well as easing my mind a little. These are all quoted directly from sources that have contacted me directly  (nothing’s been changed): To summarize, to this

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theological reflections on xzuberant faith

here is a letter I have written and emailed (xfmpstreetball@yahoo.com as well as xfmag@yahoo.com) to the leaders of the XFBA. Michael Heard, Gregory Railey and Jevon Blake, In this whole expose of trying to discover what is true and false about this basketball league I began

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Update #4

From a close source: 1)  They never physically were allowed to hold a  contract.  One day it was read to them, then at the “signing” they were  read something from the contract, then each team went up and signed the  contracts (with no time to read them).  There was no

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Update on Scam #3

This is from a friend looking into the situation. “I called Creflo Dollar’s organization.  They have  never heard of any of these guys, their league, their church – they have  had no contact with them and know nothing about them. I also contacted Canton Better Business Bureau and they’ve

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Free Web 2.0 Music Software

Heck Yeah. Webjay – Playlist Community Also See Last.FM and Pandora.com These are all great ways to listen to music free. I prefer Last.fm to the others but Pandora is really nice as well.

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chronicles of scam scam

There are new developments since my last post concerning the possible scam taking place in Canton Ohio involving the Xzuberant Faith Ministry Productions team.  There is a team of people now investigating the issues that surround the practices of this group that has seemingly popped up out of nowhere within

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taking the classroom outside

This past quarter I had the great privilege to work with Ryan Bolger on his class “transforming contemporary cultures” at Fuller Seminary.  In this class we used the internet as a basis for much of the learning that took place during the quarter.  We made use of both individual and

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when dreams become cheap tricks

Over the holidays new drama develops for my family and it involves a small town scam. So far as I can tell Xzuberant Faith Basketball Association and Xzuberant Faith Ministry Production is a scam that targets 20 something men interested in playing basketball. [If anyone have any more information about

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following wise guys

today emily and i taught our Sunday School, and the lesson today was on the three “wise guys” as I like to call them and how they followed a star to find the baby Jesus.  It was a lot of fun, we dressed up, well the three boys in our

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new year thoughts

Being home always reminds me of who I am, who I am not, and who I try to be.  For instance most of my friends here in LA are in school, just out of school or are pursuing PhD (so they will be in school for a lifetime), while most