Who are your theological influences?

This past weekend I began asking friends on Facebook and Twitter, “Who are your most significant theological influences?”  I wanted to ponder the question, but didn’t want to do so alone.  As I considered persons who had impacted my life, I thought that opening a conversation with others regarding those who have molded their Christian [...]

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WhiteHouse.gov Gets a Redesign

This information appeared first here at TechCrunch, but I thought it was worth passing along.  Cool stuff. You can check the new website here and browse the blog, see President Obama’s weekly web address, and read up on White House approaches to important issues.   If the government can adapt their technologies to attempt and [...]

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Great Advice for Academicians

Thanks to Ben Myers at Faith and Theology.  Here is his advice for theological students.  I chuckled at a number of these. 1. As a theological student, your aim is to accumulate opinions – as many as you can, and as fast as possible. (Exceptional students may acquire all their opinions within the first few weeks; [...]

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Reading the Institutes

Princeton Theological Seminary has launched a cool project in 2009.  They have partnered with Westminster John Knox and made the McNeill/Battles translation of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion available online.  You can visit the site or subscribe to the RSS feed and join with a community who has committed to read through the [...]

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MLK :: I HAVE A DREAM

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of [...]

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Speaking in Quiet Voices

As of late my blog has been a bit quiet.  This has been for several reasons.  Beginning in mid-November I began writing an autobiographical essay, statements of purpose, and compiling academic resumes for applications to PhD programs around the country, a task which took a substantial amount of time.  By the beginning of January I [...]

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Jon Foreman :: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Last week I downloaded Jon Foreman‘s four EPs which were released last year: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer.  The collection is excellent, and I couldn’t recommend it more highly.  Foreman has also released Limbs and Branches, which includes the greatest hits from the four EPs. You may know Foreman from the band Switchfoot, or you may [...]

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Sanctity of Life Sunday :: January 18

Check out this video preview found through WorshipHouse Media.  Until this was passed my way I was not aware that there was a Sunday designated for Sanctity of Life.  I’ve heard my fair share of sermons on this topic, have read a number of scholarly essays, and have thought about this issue (if I may call it [...]

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Story of Stuff

Check it out here, or watch this video:

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Tony Jones No Longer to Serve as National Coordinator of Emergent Village

The new year brought a change to Emergent Village, with Tony Jones no longer serving as the National Coordinator.  This news broke here, among other places, in November, and was among the changes outlined in an online letter posted to Emergent’s Weblog.  I wasn’t aware of this change until yesterday when spotting it as a [...]

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