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Continue reading →: ★ Another try at my thesis statement
After a round of feedback from Winn on the problem statement I blogged a copy of yesterday, here’s another draft of my thesis statement: I am studying Celtic, Benedictine and Orthodox monasticism because I want to discover whether this spirituality can help my reader understand how to be spiritually formed…
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Continue reading →: ★ A Little Creative Writing to prepare the dissertation thesis
My current class with BGU is Research Bridge, and it helps us to focus our thesis down to something manageable. Winn Griffin is our professor. This assignment helps us to focus on describing the problem that our thesis is meant to address. It was entertaining to do, and I’m looking…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-09-19
Jason Fried of 37 Signals Shares His Knowledge at Web 2.0 Expo NYC « CultureSlurp Good wisdom for Web 2.0 companies – all companies, actually. 37Signals.com's software is all excellent stuff. God's Politics – Moving the Abortion Debate Beyond Partisan Purists (by Tony Campolo) Tony writes about his decision to…
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Continue reading →: ★ Right, Left or Center? (Ron Sanders' article on evangelicalism and politics at Relevant)
My high school friend Ron Sanders (‘Spud’, which tells you how much we loved basketball and Ron’s height back then, for those who have ears to hear) just had an excellent article published at Relevant Magazine. Ron is ministering with his family in Campus Crusade for Christ at Stanford University…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-09-18
Review of Andy Crouch, "Culture Making", on Christianity Today This looks like a good one to put on the to-read list. (tags: christianity culture books) PastorHacks: Preaching in a Postmodern World How much would sitting in on an extensive course on Preaching in Postmodern World taught by Tim Keller be…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-09-17
White Privilege, White Entitlement and the 2008 Election | BuzzFlash.org For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help. Interview with Catie, 5 yr old member of the Mustard Seed House (8:00)…
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Continue reading →: ★ "Interviews highlighting the spiritual lives of real people
I got a really fun email from Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard today. In it, she invited me to participate in a little interview project that she is doing: I’m collecting interviews to highlight the spiritual lives of real people: http://www.spiritualbookclubblog.blogspot.com/ We hope to get diversity of opinion, occupation, and global geography.…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-09-15
My Damn Channel » You Suck at Photoshop: Season 1 » You Suck at Photoshop #1 "You Suck at Photoshop" is an international phenomenon. It's witty, irreverent, hilarious, and is also excellent education on Photoshop usage. Enjoy, even though you suck. (tags: photoshop tutorial funny youtube) How To Master Photoshop…
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Continue reading →: ★ Mt. Athos Greece – Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra (Simonopetra)
Mt. Athos Greece – Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra (Simonopetra) Originally uploaded by ConstantineD Well, a month away from my trip to Orthodox Christian lands, and it looks very doubtful that I’ll be able to spend a few days on Mt. Athos, the seat of Orthodox Christianity just off the…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-09-14
Race, Reconciliation & The Missional Church: A Confession « A Living Alternative "Over the last few days I have been following the articles over at the God's Politics blog in respect to issue of Race & the New Monasticism. These articles both thrilled me and tormented me as I read…
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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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