There is about 20 people in my house right now – families from all over. As part of our experience together, we are joining the global advent grid blog. I left the computer on and a few people blogged, including myself. Here they are: Stretch. You stretched out your arm and carved reality from nothing…
Read MoreHanging with Gandalf
Return of the King premiere in Berlin. As you know, we drove up there and watched all the actors, listened to Peter Jackson give his speech, but there was something more. Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf) walked out and had a chat with us. Yes, I took that photo! He stood in front of me and…
Read MoreBerlin Rocks
We are back. We stayed with Kerstin Hack, who blogs at Berlin Rocks and runs a publishing company called Down To Earth. She is also our key contact for Berlin and is a very good friend. Berlin is an amazing city. Nearly 4 million people, less than 60,000 church attenders. You do the math. Its…
Read MoreOrlando Bloom
According to Bloomed.net (Orlando Bloom’s fan site), Orlando and his mates have been trying to kick some demon butt. Quote “So the actor and his fellow cast members – ORLANDO BLOOM and SEAN BEAN – visited a village church while filming in Mexico to pray for any curse to be lifted.” [BACKBLOG: OOOpppppssss – false…
Read MoreCarl F.H. Henry dies at 90
Carl F.H. Henry, Theologian and First Editor of Christianity Today, Dies at 90
Read MoreTuesday morning and its really cold
Snapshot of me right now. Normal sleep pattern last night (last night i woke up at 3am) its 8:17 am and i have been on the computer for one hour. I drank 2 cups of tea and 1 coffee. The 1 coffee is still being drunk. My wife wants to go to Berlin today. I…
Read MoreLeaving Prague
We are moving our base out of Prague. We have one more month in our house. We don’t know where to move yet – either Budapest, london or Berlin. At the mo, Berlin is the biggest possibility, but we have invitations in a few places. The Stuart family are there right now in Berlin, checking…
Read More[grid blog:: advent] Seek
backstage by andrew jones it appears backstage the kingdom of God an entrance unpromoted without applause in genres unused in fonts never bold in places hidden corners it appears backstage eluding those who scramble for the prized who lust after the spectacular who never find themselves backstage the presence of God appears among poor people…
Read MoreGrid Blog Experiment
The Grid Blog experiement on Dec 1 went well and many of us got mentioned, as well as our Advent grid blog that starts today. “An interesting aspect of this first grid blog was the clustering of posts from specific communities of interest. Emergent kiwi, jonny barker, the corner, tall skinny kiwi, dydimustk, peregrinatio, bechurch…
Read MoreJerusalem, Jerusalem
This is a picture of Mike Riddell and yes, he really IS that ugly – i met him in person a few months ago, and have 4 of his books on my shelf. In fact, I had been waiting for many years to meet him so it was quite an honor. Daniel Miller and Dan…
Read More2 Best Spams of the Day
1. Title: “FORM MRS HAPPY” “My Brethren, Calvary greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus, I am former Mrs. Fatima Aisha Alamin, now Mrs Elizbert. Alamin, a widow to late Sheik Mohammed Alami. I am 72 years old, I am now a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer . . .” UH…
Read More230 from CT
Christianity Today is giving us 230 links that will help us appreciate Christmas around the world. THANKS!!!!
Read MoreProject 1210
Wanna change the world this weekend? Or maybe just write about it? Check out Project 1210. Human Rights Day is on Dec 10th. There is an opportunity for you content producers to write an essay (550 – 1000 words) and post it with comments on and links back to Independentsday.org, the guys who are organizing…
Read MorePostmodern Truth 1.0 The Official Skinny Response
In the most recent hard copy edition of Christianity Today, Charles Colson tackles the postmodern challenge. The article is called “The Postmodern Crackup: From soccer moms to college campuses, signs of the end” (December 2003, p. 72). It is published by Christianity Today. The web version is now up. Brian McLaren’s response is posted here…
Read MorePostmodern Truth 2.0 The Cheesy Skinny Response
Postmodernism. I do not think it means what people think it means. This is the topic of Brian McLaren’s response to Charles Colson’s latest attempt to dismiss the word “postmodern”. His response is gentle and polite. One might have expected more reaction. There could have been the swishing of swords or, at the very least,…
Read Morepostmodern truth 3.0 the intuitive skinny response
IS is it true that postmodern people do not believe in absolute truth? and if so why cant we find any real-life people who fit this description? and if there are none but only straw men? then who is our enemy? because if we cant find an enemy (where are all those atheists when we…
Read MoreBlogpile
Let me offer up a word to the Blogosphere.- BLOGPILE – like a dog-pile but instead of everyone jumping on one person, they all descend on a blog site. It is what happens when a flashmob turns up on one blog. A blog pile is normally unorchestrated, although it is possible to predict when it…
Read MoreLook Ma – I’m on Future Church!
Nice to see my old blog as the featured site on Future Church this week. One day people will stop going back to my old blog, which i stopped a few months ago, and will come here instead. Tom Hohstadt, the man behind Future Church (and the word DAMAH) has been a friend for many…
Read MoreOpen letter to Chuck Colson
If you like reading open letters, you will really appreciate the letter that will be posted on another website tomorrow. It tackles the recent column in Christianity Today, written by Charles Colson, that states the well-accepted view that the postmodern generation does not believe in truth. I, and my friends at Emergent, have been discussing…
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