My dad died on Friday night. He was told that I was on my way to Australia and that means a lot. He went quite suddenly – his time had come and it wasnt a surprise. I am glad he didnt have to attend his youngest son’s funeral – “No father should have to bury…
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Cool. I havent been here for many years. The airport is way cool. A swimming pool on the roof and free internet everywhere. I will be coming through Singapore next Saturday and will have time to meet with any emerging church people. Send me an email. I spent 5 weeks in Singapore and Malaysia back…
Read MoreAustralia for a week
I am in London tonight but am traveling out to Australia tomorrow for the funeral of my brother and will be in Brisbane on the weekend. I might also be able to pop down to Melbourne later next week. I will be spending time with my dad who is very sick and possibly seeing his…
Read MoreLike a Rhizome Cowboy
Here are the details of my presentation “Like a Rhizome Cowboy: The Skinny on emergence principles for network-based churches” given at The Sheffield Centre, November 2004.
Read MoreOn the road again
Off again for meetings and a conference. This is my schedule: Aberdeen today Sheffield Tues – Thursday. London – Friday to Tuesday. I have Saturday free in London if anyone wants to meet up.
Read MoreI go to Rio
I go to Rio . . . De Janeiro . . . next May, and not just coz my baby smiles at me (she does), but because i will be speaking and learning at Tribal Generation’s yearly event, the event that i always get invited to, and yet never get there. "New Generation or Urban…
Read MoreApple Temple of Cool Opens
New pilgrimage site in London, one that i hope to pay my respect to in about 2 weeks. The Apple Store opens in London in about an hour. WISH I WAS THERE!!!!!!! I have been waiting over a year for this – it should be a highly spiritual experience, and a droolworthy one, as this…
Read MoreBiG Blogging
Google has been experiementing with a blogging system for corporations. Its called Blogger in Google (BiG) amn we may see it soon. Here is an screenshot.
Read MoreEmergent Criticism
It looks like Emergent is about to enter a season of blow torching from the mainstream church. How should we handle it?
Read MoreIs Emerging Church a Renaissance Recapitulation?
Is Emergent a recapitualtion of the Renaissance? The question is asked by Thomas Brown in a comment this morning. I say yes, but . . . we would have to look at Emerging Church in 3 stages . . .
Read MoreWife Stranded on Remote Island
Just another day in the life of the family Jones. Today a freak hail storm popped up and my wife is STRANDED on a remote island called Westray. The windy hail storm was so strong that it blew over one of Samuel’s school mates. The ferry home was cancelled due to weather and the possibility…
Read MoreNot Reformation
Is the Emerging Church attempting to reform the existing church? I was responding to a comment on an emerging church definition that likens it to a new reformation. What I said was . . ” I dont think Reformation describes what we are doing, and the vandalism of the reformation (destroying art and church buildings,…
Read MoreThe Devotional Life
Worship is justice. And there is a devotional life that is bigger than one’s personal time with God. This is what i am thinking today. Debbie and Miriam (another pilgrim who moved up to Orkney to pray) are on a ferry to visit the island of Westray today. According to a book i am reading…
Read MoreTo those who link to me. . thanks!
Its been a year since i shifted my blog from Blogger to Typepad. I lost a lot of traffic, of course, but i think the shift was worth it. Thanks everyone for changing your link or adding me to your links. You guys rock, all of you. Thanks for linking me over the past 12…
Read MoreGenerosity and Keith Green Kareoke
I am thinking a lot about the place of generosity and the gift economy. I was checking out the writings of Marcel Mauss (1925) this morning, alongside passages of the bible that speak of gift-giving, and i found a community of thinkers in France called MAUSS (after Marcel Mauss). All of them are helping to…
Read MoreGo Tony Go!
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymoreI” Emergent’s Tony Jones totally loses his Lutheran composure with “Throwing Down the Gauntlet.” Just what i felt like reading this morning. Thanks Jonny for the link. And when your done watching Tony jump red-faced around the room, saying things like . . .…
Read MoreTwin birth of Emergence and Postmodernism
An interesting thought. Two words that have created a lot of controversy in the church over the past decade have been “emergence” and “postmodern”. Both words were first used in the same decade. The word “postmodern” was first used in the 1870’s by British artist John Watkins Chapman. The first use of the “Emergence” in…
Read MoreClapshot for dinner
Our family is eating Clapshot for the first time tonight.
Read MoreOut of the Question (Book)
Len Sweet is ripening with age. His latest book, Out of the Question . . Into the Mystery is a far cry from the number-crunching “Soul Tsunami” and more subtle than the poppy “Carpe Manana”. Its a grey-blue minor-key book that finds its power in the pure simplicity of the discipled life, rather than catchy…
Read MoreWiFi’ing at the KOI Airport
I am officing at the Kirkwall Airport this morning – possibly the only place in Orkney to catch a WiFi signal faster than 1MEG. Of course my own Wifi on North End Road is available to anyone who walks by, but then 48k isn’t really worth the trip, especially when we share it around. So…
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