Envision ‘08 Conference

May 5, 2008

I’ve been hearing about the Envision Conference through quite a few friends recently. You can find out information about the event here, but it is going to be at Princeton University June 8-10 and it has an amazing lineup of speakers who will be there, including Shane Claiborne, Brian McLaren, Kay Warren, Miroslav Volf, Jay [...]

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Queer Messages Podcast

April 23, 2008

I’ve mentioned my friend Tony’s site before, Queer Messages. He runs it with Matt, and there are always some interesting things discussed on the site. Recently, there’s been a lot of political banter, probably because Tony is very pro-Hillary and Matt is very pro-Obama. They’re fun, very intelligent and great writers. They recently just started [...]

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Everything Must Change: A Review

February 20, 2008

This review will be appearing in Sharing the Practice, the journal put out by the Academy of Parish Clergy.
In his newest book, Everything Must Change, Brian McLaren tackles two questions: first, What are the biggest problems in the world and second, What does Jesus have to say about these global problems? Through the title alone, [...]

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Seriously Senator Craig?

September 5, 2007

I love Idaho sir, but - really? Are you serious? First you said you were guilty and then you said you weren’t - it was just a hasty decision. Then you resigned - and now…this? I would suggest you discuss some of your decisions first with your PR folks next time before making any more [...]

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Messages: Queer Communications with the O/other

April 10, 2007

Some of you may remember my friend Tony, who I’ve mentioned from time to time. I often joke with him about being the one person to start and delete more blogs than anyone else I know. Well, he and a friend have started a new site recently, and I think because it is more communal [...]

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Wednesday Speedlinking

March 28, 2007

A few links I think you should know about:

Jen has a beautiful post about marriage, Marriage and the Little Matchgirl: A True Story
Bart Campolo’s “I Believe…” is provocative and has some really good stuff.
Emergent Podcast Interview with Doug Pagitt discussing An Emergent Manifesto of Hope
Apparently Christians had to get into the video-sharing business. Enter GodTube.com
Spirit [...]

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Palestinian Unity Deal Under Way

February 16, 2007

It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything related to the Middle East, but to be honest, I haven’t been keeping up to speed. I had the privilege of having lunch with two people a few weeks ago, one who has lived in Palestine, and loved having the opportunity to share stories, experiences and talk about [...]

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Meeting With a Zionist

July 22, 2005

[During this post, I will be having some quotations from Melissa (a pseudonym); while I did not have an audio recorder with me, and I don’t remember the quotes word for word, my paraphrases below certainly reflect the messages she was trying to get across to me. I will also be putting some words in [...]

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Letter from Presbyterians in Dialogue for Peace

July 22, 2005

A friend of mine gave me this link a week or two ago. It is to a blog entry written by Jim Berekley about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of the PCUSA. He lifted up a letter written by a group called Presbyterians in Dialogue for Peace as the example of an “evenhanded, reasonable, [...]

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Surviving & resisting…

July 4, 2005

This picture of the wall was taken from Abu Dis, which was one of the many towns we had to drive through on the way home from the Dead Sea yesterday. Because of the by-pass roads, closures, checkpoints, etc., what should take about 30 min to the Dead Sea takes over an hour and a [...]

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