This is the biggest list and i will add to it as you tell me who else is there in nashville. If you cant go to the convention, you might as well experience it through the bloggers who will be there. Michael Toy (best so far) Adam Cleveland (also a good details man) Lilly Lewin…
Read Moredan hughes interviewed
dan is the howard stern of theoblogians. i like the guy – he came to our wabi sabi event last year and we got to meet. but he does swear a lot (corrected), even in my comments – coop interviews him.
Read MoreEmergent Convention – Nashville
How bummed i am that i cant be there. As you know, i was supposed to give a few seminars entitled “Forward Slash” -a 2-part series that dealt with ministry in a new media world. As it turned out, there was an accidental “slash” of my hand and i am all stitched up and unable…
Read MoreStan Parks/WorldconneX
Emergent Convention starts tomorrow and I was supposed to be sharing a room with Stan Parks. We were going to share the cost of the room – but now i guess he has to put out some extra money. Now i feel bad. Stan has been working overseas in Indonesia for a long time, but…
Read MoreMystery Worshipper at Hillsong
The mystery worshipper at Hillsong London had a very similar experience to our family’s visit earlier this year.
Read MoreVisualize World News
Newsmap lets you visualize patterns in world news rather than just read the details. God is in the details. But He is also in the patterns.
Read MoreHanging with Euro VJs
Dude. I made it on to the Arkaos web site. Now i have really arrived. Where is my mother?????? This is me, wearing my grey hat and thrift store lab coat at the London Virgin Megastore last week. The VJ’s were having some difficulties with the Oxygen 8 Midi and i was offering my wise…
Read MorePulpFiction RSS/Atom feed
PulpFiction is a new RSS/Atom newsreader for Mac with great filing system . . .BUT it costs money so i will not be getting it. Rumor has it that Opera’s new browser 7.50 will act as aggregator as well as browser. I am downloading it now.
Read MoreGooooooooood Morning London!
Yuk. I hate doing radio and i haven’t done it for about 10 years. But England is a different country and maybe it wont be so intimidating. Christian Premier Radio with Rob Frost. Breakfast show. Next Sunday 23rd, (not moday as i said earlier) at 9am. I think you can hear it on the internet…
Read MoreYouth Ministry Failure
An interesting conversation/cohort at Emergent Convention this week will be the Failure of Youth Ministry. Somewhat related is the talk of unrealistic expectations from groups like Acquire the Fire. Mr Careaga sticks his neck out.
Read MoreStill Defining Emerging Church
This particular emerging church conversation started when I took a shot of answering some questions from Steve (Christianity and Renewal Mag). It became a conversation among bloggers that has just had its snapshot taken at a blog called Emergesque yesterday. There is a whole Sunday afternoon’s worth of chasing links there, so i wont waste…
Read More“Church” today with newly-weds.
What church will i go to today? – Well, we are all going over to the home of Phutan and Maggie for what they call a “fellowship meal”. I have a feeling this could be the start of a new “church” – one with couches, food, a juice machine, a bible and a sunday paper.…
Read MoreI like filters
The amount of information available to me at any moment is overwhelming. Give me a filter over a funnel anyday. I like filters filters and not funnels I am deluged with numbers swamped by words. Information chases me/pursues me with bloodhound persistance Messages, almost all of them meaningless, are laying seige to my email box…
Read MoreNashville can wait
Its official: i am canceling next week’s USA trip, due to the injury on my hand Gory details: I cut my left hand very badly this week, catching a falling mirror (good reflexes) and it sliced through a lot of muscle. The x-ray showed no permanent damage, tendons are ok –and I ended up leaving…
Read MoreBelong, Behave, Believe
From Thomas in Norway: “I am a youth leader in our church and am blessed to lead a growing and committed youth ministry. We have lately realized something quite interesting (at least we think so), and I just wanted to ask about your opinion. You are probably familiar with the term: Belong –Believe –Behave. We…
Read MoreOverheard in the Crypt
The Crypt has become the happening place in this weeks launch of Church of Fools. Anyone who’s anyone is showing up there. (click on images to enlarge) or view some movies of the launch. With a limit of 25 avatars, its difficult to get in. At least the lucky people who made it in are…
Read MoreJesus in Beijing
Jesus in Beijing – new book by Aikman: “the intellectual center of gravity for Christianity may move decisively out of Europe and North America as the Christianization of China continues and as China becomes a global superpower…”
Read MoreChip for tithing
“We prayed and felt a peace about it” Randy, CFO Great to see that Crockett’s Bluff Community Church are really praying their way thru Revelation 13 as they implement their techno-tithing strategy. Said 27 year old homemaker Allison, “I was really shocked, like, ‘is my pastor Nicolae Carpathia or something?’ But when Pastor Bud told…
Read MoreTodd Hunter
My friend Todd Hunter just got appointed to head up Alpha in USA. Link from Next-Wave
Read MoreFinally . . . PayPal
I shared about my lengthy struggle with PayPal in The Skinny on Support, and many of you encouraged me strongly to persevere. Well, after weeks of work and endless phone calls to about 12 PayPal reps (my wife was calling, not me) we finally were able to delete our american account (which we tainted by…
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