Staying connected with Dodgeball

Whether followers of Jesus go to a worship service or not (see sunday’s post), they do tend to stay connected. Many of them turn up yearly at large festivals to “check in” to the wider family, and during the week they are in and out of each others houses. I was wondering if anyone in…

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Bible Typos

Notorious Typos in the Bible – One of the famous ones: Exodus 20:14: “Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 King James version.

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Christians without Churches

Reinhold Scharnowski has some good thoughts on the Christians who won’t be turning up to a worship service today, but who are just as much a part of the family of God as anyone else. Here is Reinhold’s post: “John Barrett estimates that there are 112 Millions of churchless Christians – men, women and children…

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Checking out and the naked truth

All is well with us, as we check out for the weekend. Hand is healing. House is clean. Pizza party went well again last night. We now have a regular stream of Muslims coming so we have to use Halal meat. We watched Return of the King last night. Have a great weekend everyone.

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Finding his religion

News Feature:R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and fresh-faced youngster Mandy Moore have joined forces to find religion.

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Hang the VJ

Hang the VJ is one of the most interesting event of the onedotzero8 digital film festival in London. Monday 31 May at 7pm. Anyone else interested in meeting up there?

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Blah: menu

here is the schedule for those of you coming to hear me speak tonight at blah. menu 1. intro: a profound apology (5) 2. tree by the river: a connected theology (10) 3. p.h.a.t.: an apostolic strategy (10) 4. forward slash: a new media epistemology (10) 5. couch grass: a deep ecclesiology (10) 6. storm:…

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Starting the new week

From Thomas, OurDailyBlog“Each day we ought to renew our resolutions and arouse ourselves to fervor as though it were the first day of our religious life. We ought to say: “Help me, O Lord God, in my good resolution and in Your holy service. Grant me now, this very day, to begin perfectly, for thus…

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19 years

May 24th, 1985 is the year I hopped on a plane and began my overseas pilgrimage with God. I had sold my car and used the money to buy a one way plane ticket. I flew to Singapore with a group of young people. We were joining a mission called Operation Mobilization for a 2…

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Blah

Blah – here is the link to the event i am speaking at next Wednesday, May 26th.

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Breakfast with the radio crew

Having brekkie with the nice people from the radio show. went pretty well, tell you about it later. [Day later] Rob Frost is a nice guy and someone who is really active in doing ministry as well has having people talk about it on his radio show. When we finished breakfast, he hopped on a…

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Couch Grass, Seeding, and a Hard Week

Its been a hard one this week – and it has left me a little depressed. – i was one handed with my injury – i missed the nashville event – i didn’t really do the reading i was hoping to do (curse that workaholism!) – my external hard drive is not talking to me…

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Insania: God will restore

“Do do do do do Too much Insania Pray for the time when GOD will restore . . .” Peter Andre, Insania (next release) As sung live on Ministry of Mahem, May 22, 2004. Will he release it with “God” or “love”?

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Stitches out

I am taking the stitches out of my hand today. Since the accident last week, it has healed really well – no infection, and i will get a great scar that deserves a better story than a falling mirror. Picture follows (if you’re brave enough to look . . .)

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Ghandi spotted at Emergent

No, that is not Ghandi – that is Brian McLaren wearing sandals at emergent convention in Nashville. Photo from Cleave whose blog wins the Skinny Award for giving the best blog journalism on what happened this week at the Convention. (Seen a better one? Let me know)

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Your Youth Pastor’s Worst Nightmare

With body modification like this, who needs chop sticks? Tongue splitting. Just dont do it! Daaaang! Although, you could taste different parts of your pizza at the same time . . . the pinapple AND the ham .. . noooooooo . . dont do it!

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Radio on sunday

Ahhh . . my radio interview is on at 9am this Sunday 23rd, (not Monday, like i said earlier). And I am speaking at Blah 6:30pm on Wednesday 26th (not 25th like i have previously said). Numbers, dates, they are all the same to me. Maths never was a strong point with me.

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Epicentre Roundtable: Advance

This is an advance notice for our Global Roundtable event this summer, in particular for those of you buying plane tickets to be here. The actual roundtable event, that we will probably call “Epicentre”, in the tradition of Epicenter (USA, 2001) and Epicentrum (Europe, 2002), will be held at Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham, Friday, August…

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Experiencing Matrix

I am adding some comments to a friend’s book today – a book about emerging church that will come out next year. I was writing about our redefined relationship with media and the Matrix came up as an example. Sure would hate to leave my thought undiscovered and untested for a year, so i will…

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