On Monday I gave a seminar at Greenbelt Festival called “The Spirituality of Blogging”. I introduced the topic with “What Bloggers Hear” and “If The Bible was Blogged“, as well as some recent statistics on blogging from Kevin Kelly and some thoughts on cyberchurch and blogging from Tim Bednar’s “We Know More Than Our Pastors”…
Read MoreIf Pat Robertson had a blog . . .
If Pat Robertson had a blog, he might have shared his thought of assassinating Hugo Chavez with a select group of listeners and commentors for feedback. And if that feedback was negative, as I assume it would have been . . . he could have decided to pull out early and change his mind, rather…
Read MoreNew Orleans Day of Prayer
Governor of Louisiana requests day of prayer “As we face the devastation wrought by Katrina, as we search for those in need, as we comfort those in pain and as we begin the long task of rebuilding, we turn to God for strength, hope and comfort. “I have declared August 31, 2005, a Day of…
Read MoreBlog Fast Over
Back online – Fast over – Feels good to purge the blog and nail it to the cross again. I will be back really shortly to catch up on all the news. Thanks for your prayers and thoughts while I was camping out at Greenbelt Festival the last week.
Read MoreIn Search of the Spiritual
“Whatever is going on here, it’s not an explosion of people going to church.” Huge Newsweek article on America’s search for spirituality, pentecostalism, paganism, christianity, wicca and much more. Blogs discussing this. Hat tip: Fritz Kling
Read MoreGreenbelt 2005: The Skinny
UPDATE: I am leaving tonight to get down to London and then Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham. I will be on a BLOG FAST for the next 4 days while I am camping in my tent with thousands of other happy campers. Looking for me? I should be pitching my tent with the large group of…
Read MoreOur Trip to Eynhallow
Monday was the last day of the school holidays so our family and some friends went to Eynhallow (Holy Island), one of Orkney’s many pilgrimage sites. The island is now uninhabited but has the ruins of a 12th Century monastery. Unlike the pilgrims of old, we took a high powered speed boat and cruised across…
Read MoreFlying Spaghetti Monster Phenomenon
UPDATE: In case you haven’t noticed, The Pastafarian parody religion and their Flying Spaghetti Monster are all over the American blogosphere this week. Their google count this morning was over 68,000 links. You can read about its origins at Wikipedia and follow the conversation by doing a word search at Technorati and making a watchlist…
Read MoreHell, Tithing and Video Games
I clicked on a religious google add this morning, something that i NEVER do, and found myself reading L. Ray Smith. I read his long article on why Christian Tithing is Unscriptural and the one on a literal hell being “a Christian hoax”. And I was thinking to myself about how much information is available…
Read MoreKevin Kelly on Blogging
We Are The Web: Kevin Kelly talks on Wired about 10 years of hypertext. “No Web phenomenon is more confounding than blogging. Everything media experts knew about audiences – and they knew a lot – confirmed the focus group belief that audiences would never get off their butts and start making their own entertainment. .…
Read MoreWillam Wallace Anniversary
Somebody shout . . . “FREDOM!” William Wallace died exactly 700 years ago – executed by those bloody English on Aug 23, 1305. Source: Wikipeida. This is Doug Pagitt (mentioned a few blog posts back) and I at the William Wallace Memorial in Stirling, Scotland. Apparently, William Wallace really was taller than the pair of…
Read MoreTo Do: Make A Mag Cover
When i get a free minute or two, I want to make my own magazine cover using flickr. Link. HT: boingboing
Read MoreOff To Eynhallow
We are just taking off for a ferry to EynHallow (Holy Island), a deserted island in Orkney where a monastery once stood. The ruins are still there but not much more. 12 of us are renting a boat for the afternoon to get to the island.
Read MoreEmerging Leaders Gathering
26-29 August 2005, Prague, Czech Republic The DNA of Jesus for the post-matrix generation I am really bummed that i cant be in Prague next week for Connect Europe. This is one of the most exciting emerging networks in Europe and has been growing fast since kicking off at Herrnhut 3 years ago. Marc Van…
Read MorePagitt on Emergent
” . . . they are not called to do “cover versions” of other generation’s faith with their own spin. But they are called to be living theological communities who articulate and generate understandings of God, life and faith. ” Doug Pagitt, Unraveling Emergent. Emerging Churches, according to Doug: – Strive to be positive about…
Read MoreCreative Archive
VJ’s listen up. BBC is opening up its archives of video. Its called the SuperStar VJ area of the Creative Archive and I heard it was UK only. Thanks Jonny.
Read MoreAll Things Mobile
One billion people are signed up to a GSM network. Thats a lot. I am trying out WINKsite and have set up an account for those of you who want to get my text only RSS feed to your phone. My Wink ID is 10434. http://winksite.com/tallskinnyki/mobile. Let me know what you think. [UPDATE] Sasa Flek…
Read MoreBlogging and Great Bible Passages
I read Charles Spurgeon’s Morning By Morning devotion this morning and I was thinking again about blogging. “He that watereth shall be watered also himself.” –Proverbs 11:25 We are here taught the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others…
Read MoreSasa Dedicating CD (Vlog)
Just remembering a great evening of worship and fun. Sasa Flek dedicated a new CD for a band called Philidelphia in the east of Czech Republic – dedicating it to God and sprinkling some white wine on the CD – dont worry – it had a cover on it. You can see my kids dancing…
Read MoreVOGMA: A Video Blog Manifesto
Adrian Miles gives a good video blog manifesto: “vogma: a manifesto [ in no particular order ] 1. a vog respects bandwidth 2. a vog is not streaming video (this is not the reinvention of television) 3. a vog uses performative video and/or audio 4. a vog is personal 5. a vog uses available technology…
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