Authority: Understanding Power Pt. 1
Inspired by a number of different events in my life I’ve been better trying to understand how I feel about groups, movements and institutions. By this I mean anything from what we call an ‘Emergent…
Author: Nathan Colquhoun
Derek Webb Interview Pt. 2
Exclusive Interview w/ Derek Webb pt. 2
theStory & More Links
I’ll probably just Link to Joe’s blog for any updates on theStory because he seems to be beating me to the punch on everything. Besides he’s a fairly new blogger so he could use the…
Couple Good Links
A few links I stumbled across. Rob linked to this interesting article about the Emergent Church Movement and the Evangelical church. Jordon linked to this article about denominations and if they can be saved. Which…
Response to Examining Emergent (Part 1)
Paul Martin, who I met at the Resonate Echo Event last week, and also got to be there for his paper on Examining Emergent, has posted his paper online here. There is lots of discussion…
Easter Weekend
Joe retells the second meeting for theStory and he saved me a whole lot of work, so I don’t have to type it out myself. Click here for the whole story. My exams are all…
Henri Nouwen
My friend Phil just e-mailed me this quote from Henri Nouwen. This is really something that has been on my heart a lot lately “More and more, the desire grows in me simply to walk…
Easter Weekend
There has been a lack of posts as I have been in Sarnia the last few days and for a few more. I’ve had a great weekend so far. Joe and I met with Pernell…
Response to Challies Post on Boldness and McLaren
I met Tim Challis on Monday at Paul Martin’s paper presentation. I have ran across his blog a few times, and have no added him to my read list, but there was one post that…
Post on Boldness
Darryl Dash has a post here on a similiar subject that I posted below on ‘Knowing that I Know’. he was also at the Evolving Church Conference, the Resonate Echo Event and Paul Martin’s paper…
Response in the Sarnia Observer
I responded to a letter written to the editor in the Sarnia Observer a week ago and it got published in today’s paper. Here is the original article Here is my response.
Knowing that I Know
Today I had the opportunity to go over to Thistledown Baptist Church and see Paul Martin present a paper on the Emergent Church. It was extremely well articulated, fair, humble and an overall well done…
Evolving Church Conference Over
Well the conference is over. After everything is said and done I would say that it was a major success. We heard good reports all around (of course not without a few negative remarks) and…
Surf Like a Pro
Today is a major marker in the history of my life. I had 70 pages of paper in my hand a few hours ago and they were all delivered to the respective classes. That means…
Article Published
Bill Dahl was kind enough to ask me to write an article for his new website, The Porpoise Diving Life. He was even kinder to publish it. This article is a brief summary of a…
Searching for Security and Left Insecure
I have noticed something about myself that caught me off guard today. I came under the impression once that there is a person I know that thought I was insecure. At first I thought this…
Church: Preaching without Community
I am reading the Great Giveaway right now by David Fitch, and I am loving this book. He is a very articulate writer and through his book explains how the evangelical church has given away…
Biblical Authority Link
I put out 6 pages of my 25 page paper this afternoon, and its quite interesting how the free will and determinism debate started with the philosophers, went to the religious thinkers and is now…
Back to the Work
It’s 1am, and the family left a few hours ago, the funeral for my great-grand mother is over (she lived till 96, and lived to be a great great grandmother). I’m heading back to Toronto…
Here Comes the Photos
Today marks a new day in my life. I got a new Camera. The Canon Digital Rebel. I also got a lense and my mom’s friend is letting me use her old Canon lenses to…