Its not everyday that you hear a gracious and honorable critique of the emerging church by a thinking person. But I found one. I just heard Michael Horton give a good critique on the emerging church on a Lutheran radio show. (A hat tip to the lovely ladies at EmergentNo.blogspot.com for posting links to Michael’s…
Read MorePasadena Consultation. No 1
Heres the Skinny on the Consultation (No. 1) that happened last week in Pasadena, sponsored by Allelon and pulled together by Alan Roxburgh and his never ending band of relatives. Dwight Friesen has compiled a list of participants from last weeks gathering of Emerging Leadership people:
Read MoreDealing with FundySpam
” . . .my Fundy commentators and readers are generally the worst behaved people on the internet – interupting discussions, trying to steal readership, and other internet sins that my pagan friends would not stoop to. So, I dont want an immediate crossover between this blog and my others because I dont want FundyFear to…
Read More300,000 hits – YES!!
UPDATE: Yes – we did it!!! The person who did a msn search for tall skinny kiwi at 9:35pm (London time) is my 300,000th hitter on this new site. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I haven’t thought of a prize, but let me know if thats you and i will think of something.
Read MoreKingdom of Heaven
I was in Hollywood a few days ago and noticed billboards everywhere with Orlando Bloom’s face and the words “The Kingdom of Heaven” written boldly. I guess the movie is hitting the screens tomorrow. I was thinking . .. and I might be wrong on this . .. but . . maybe this is a…
Read MoreMonastic Toilet Prayer
“Blessed are you who formed us with wisdom and created within us many openings and many cavities . . ” “From “Prayer for Going to the Bathroom”, One of the many prayers from Urban Monastery, a good Wiki based site. Other good prayers are there, such as Prayer for Washing the Dishes . Our Celtic…
Read MoreSan Francisco Prayer
Upper Room Remix starts tomorrow, May 5th at 6pm. 10 days of continuous prayer for San Francisco.
Read MoreThe Harambee Podcast
It was great to finally see Harambee Center in Pasadena. The image is me and Freddy from Sweden, standing outside Rudy’s house. Rudy showed me around and later wrote the official blog post on UrbanOnRamps, Other good thoughts and note-taking from Freddy and Charlie Wear. My 17 minute talk is available for free download here.…
Read MoreGerard Kelly going to Netherlands
Simon says my good friend Gerard Kelly has just accepted the call to pastor the CrossRoads International Church – a great church in Amsterdam that invited me to speak at their yearly camp 2 years ago . . . unfortunately, I was too busy to go and had to pass on it. We wish Gerard…
Read MoreAndy Crouch on Generational Thinking
“At the bottom line Andy Crouch’s myth busting helps us steer clear of ‘easy peasy’ trendy pop sociology. Disciplines of cultural exegesis must be grounded in models of theological reflection that last the distance. Models that take us beyond particular life stages or cultural trends.” PostKiwi According to a great blog post by PostKiwi, Andy…
Read MoreThe 5 Lane Freeway Mind
Current research has reinforced something i was teaching 7 years ago. Back in 1998, I used the concept of a 5 lane freeway to explain the new mindset. Children’s minds, I argued, are not a single track country road, but a “5 lane freeway”, geared up for multi-tasking and learning from the relationships between the…
Read MorePasadena: Reasons For Voyaging
The first post of a series on what happened last week . . . Steve Taylor led us in a devotional experience called Reasons For Voyaging, which included a Maori greeting and writing postcards. It was based around 4 topics: 1- our voyages here – thanking God for those who gave us space to come…
Read MorePlaystation of the Cross
“. . . a game in which persecuted Christians are rescued from the catacombs of ancient Rome” by Rev. Billy, a game designer who follows Jesus. Link. Hat tip to Fritz Kling and Bob Fischer
Read MoreMy weekend in L.A
Southern California is a funky, wild, weird place and one should visit it on occasion to remind oneself that one is normal, or at least more normal than some other people, who are indeed . . . abnormal . .. and despite the mathematical impossibility of a demographic convergence of millions of abnormal people all…
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