We had a fun night! Talli was a detective, Hayley a hippie, and Aubrey a cow.

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I’m really tired. But I’m also happy, for which I am really grateful.
So no exciting blogging tonight. But, thank you…thank you for the great comments lately. Thanks to the Quaker bloggers out there who’ve been reading and discussing. (I’ve been mentally writing a series of “Why I’m a Quaker” posts, so watch out. But [...]

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I’m finishing up preparations for tomorrow (covering why world missions is essential in just 5 minutes is not an easy task). Digging through notes from seminary, I found something pretty amazing. It was from a class that didn’t particularly stand out at the time as earth-shattering, called “Biblical Foundations for Missions” by Chuck Van Engen. [...]

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(Can you tell I’m surfing the web while scarfing my lunch?)
Read this. Awesome.

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Oh, the web we weave…

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I’ve had a great e-mail conversation with Michael Fawver this week. We do this from time to time, and every time he says something really smart, and I wonder: why don’t I e-mail him more often? Here’s one of my favorite things that he said:
So far, my intellectual answer to the questions concerning the church [...]

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I’ve noticed a rhythm to blogging: If I post often, long, and about stuff I’ve been thinking about a lot, I get lots of hits but few comments. If I do something fun or ask a question, I may not get as many hits, but the comments go through the roof. You can look at [...]

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I want to write a little more about my brief conversation with Andrew on Saturday night. I was telling him that it seems like I’m called to do something that most American emerging church folks have given up on; it seems like I’m called to stay within an established church and follow where Jesus is [...]

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Lookie, lookie: my face on Andrew Jones’ blog. (Well, my face behind my hand…)
I’m sure I shouldn’t be such a celebrity gawker…but it’s better than a celebrity stalker!

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We finished our journey through Colossians by having the entire letter read out loud. The feedback was all positive-hearing the entire book in one sitting was challenging for our hyper-stimulated, visual lifestyle, but it still worked.
I had a brainstorm of importing Colossians into Microsoft Word and using the auto-summarize command to see what Microsoft would [...]

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