Tracking Emering Churches in Denominations

Most of you know I have at least some interest in the emerging church and write about it from time to time, or maybe it's just a guilty-by-association thing.

New Books: The Monstrosity of Christ, Evangelicals and Empire, and Lessig's Remix

Here are a few new books on their way out, or already published, that I want to highlight.

The Monstrosity of Christ by Slavoj ?i?ek and John Milbank. The book is about secularism, politics and the future of Christianity between two unlikely characters: John Milbank, …

Using Wiki's for Class Collaboration - Fall Quarter 2008

This year I will be assisting Ryan Bolger (his new website) in his classes again, for the fall quarter we're doing

About the Nuance of Voting Records

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Quakers Twitter Politics During the Debate

Dress Down Friday | The Anxious Economy and Proto-Christianity

Here is another edition of Dress Down Friday, complete with stuff on the economic crises and gun-racks for your bikes.

Younger Evangelicals Weigh in on Abortion and Other Issues

Once thought to be in the pocket of the Religious Right, many American evangelicals today are discovering a deeper understanding of what it means to be pro-life.

Kenny Hiser, communications director from Sojourners sent this article to me that will be their cover …

The Imagination of Politics - William Cavanaugh's Theo-Politics

I'm currently working through Catholic theologian William T. Cavanaugh's book ((here is a listing of his bibliographic works), "Theo-Political Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy  as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism," for a lecture I'm doing later this …

Barclay Press: Technology as a Powerful-Practice (Part 1)

I've put together a two-part essay on Technology as Power (or what I'm calling, using James McClendon, a powerful-practice) and the second part which I will publish in two weeks on the Quaker notion of "Gospel order" as a counterpoint to what Henry Jenkins calls …

A Resource Guide For the Start of the New Quarter

The fall quarter is now underway for all us Fuller students and so as is customary I thought I'd write up some things relating to school over the course of the next couple posts. First, I wanted to simply highlight some of my articles relating to seminary. Some of these …

Before A Great Cloud of Witnesses: A New Year At Seminary

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I was asked to share a passage of Scripture and a brief reflection for a community event this evening and I thought I'd offer it here for all of you as well. I shared this among Fuller students as we prepare for the fall quarter which begins …

McCain: "I know how to heal the wounds of war"

I just finished watching the debate and it left me feeling like our country and economy will be safer and better off with Obama at the helm. What caught me off guard about the debate came at the very end in a line McCain gave. While I've noted that a number of …

John Steinbeck on the Current Economic Crisis

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I came across this Steinbeck quote today while looking through Wink's book "Engaging the Powers," it seemed to me to be getting at the nature of the struggle we face today. Especially when it comes to the bank being an uncontrollable …

Church TechCamp At Fuller

Rhett Smith does a great job of keeping tabs on technology and new media and how it's used in ministry. The other day he turned people's attention to Church TechCamp, a gathering of people interested in using these forms within the church. They are meeting at Fuller …

Everett Cattell: Communication As Witness (pt. 4)

Series contents | Intro | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five

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A good theological understanding of communication begins with the incarnation and John 1; Quaker Missionary Everett Cattell covers this thoroughly before moving onto a more in …

Five Years Ago and Convergent October 2008

Martin Kelley has written a post giving a little back history to what happened five years ago. Five years ago he started reading Rober Weber's book The Younger Evangelicals, a book that confirmed much of his thinking about liberal Quakerism and helped him verbalize what …

Dress Down Friday | Political Irony and the Messianic

With Sarah Palin being picked the VP last week things in the political news world have gone to another level of seriousness, but fortunately there are plenty of people also having a little fun with the whole thing as well:

• The Fake Sarah Palin Twitter


• Sarah Palin's …

Manufacturing Dissent: An Interview with Stephen Duncombe

I came across an interview with Stephen Duncome, the author of "Dream:Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in the Age of Fantasy," a book I really enjoyed and have been trying to utilize some of the ideas (you can see a first attempt in my essay called, "Desire and the …

Faith and The Difficult Process of Discernment

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"And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him."

(Hebrews 11:6 NRSV)

Over the last month Emily and I have been working through a major life change …

Dreams and the Kingdom of God

My August Barclay Press essay is now online. It's a little late for August, but time has been pretty tight lately. The essay looks at Stephen Duncombe's recent book on progressive politics, "Dream Re-Imagining" and applies some of the findings to a theological …