C.S Lewis Rolling in his Grave?

Cory at Boing Boing has a copy of a letter from C.S. Lewis insisting that Narnia should never be adapted with live actors, calling it “blasphemy” and saying that he’d consider a cartoon (but not from Disney), but never allow human actors to portray his Narniacs. Interesting . . . Technorati Tags: narnia

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Church 2.0

much talk about Web 2.0. much hype about Bubble 2.0 much skepticism about Burst 2.0 more thought needed about Emerging Church 2.0 As I type these words into my blog editor, the term “Web 2.0” is currently the most searched phrase or key word on Technorati’s blog search. There is a lot of discussion and…

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My Top Referrers [thanks]

Almost a thousand of you lovely adorable bloggers have permanent links to me on your front page, which means that many of my hits come from your sites. I have enjoyed over half a million hits in the last season, and much of that is because of you. Your permanent links give me a high…

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Prov 28:17

Found and edited this image of Cain and Abel (anonymous artist) yesterday from One Year Bible Blog. I have failed miserably to keep up with this particular Bible reading schedule this year but I still get the notes from the daily readings in my RSS reader – in fact, I have moved the feed to…

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UK Needs to Get Sorted. This Week. Dangit!

The prophets tell us that this week is ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL for the spiritual future of the United Kingdom and the emerging church. They are calling for prayer and action that will show God that Brits are serious about following in His way. And if not, He might take that as a “NO!” Now, being a…

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Cyber Monday Restraint

Blogs4God salutes you if you avoided the “orgy known as Black Friday” especially if you restrained yourself from buying some of the Jesus Junk that is currently available. Lets see how you fare tomorrow on Cyber Monday, the web equivalent of Black Friday. Its when connected Americans go online and spend lots of money after…

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Feedster’s Top500 Blogs

The second accounting of The Feedster 500 Top Blogs was announced . . . and my humble little blog was violently kicked off its perch as i predicted would happen. I was number 381 and was quite excited when i got the news, but now am a SUB-500 blog, just like the rest of you…

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Reflections on USA: Western Seminary

Last month I drove by Western Seminary in Portland Oregon where I studied in 1988 and got my introduction to postmodernism. I also drove by the Horse Brass Pub where I ate lunch every day. The Horse Brass has become quite well known now with Don Miller talking about it so much (Get PDF) but…

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Bible on Your iPod

I was just loading up iTunes for my wife and I noticed some software released this year for iPod called BiblePlayer. American Standard Version seems to be the only flavor but maybe more versions are out there. A daily reading plan means you could POD your way through the Bible in 2006. Download BiblePlayer as…

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Longest Domain Name

Who’s got the longest domain name? 63 letters is the limit for domain names plus the .com which makes 67. Some of the longest recorded web addresses are: Iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongestlongestdomainnameinthisworld.com thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com The owners are all very proud of having the longest domain names in the world but you could give them all a VERY BAD DAY…

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On Defining Emerging Church (updated)

A lot of people are trying to define the Emerging Church at the moment. – Freddy does a good job giving Some Words to Clarify The Emerging Church. – Papa G begins a series of thoughts called What is the Emerging Church? – Justin Taylor (a Reformed blogger who actually DOES get out and meet…

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Connected Again

OhhhYeahBabyUhHuh!!! We just got ADSL connected at our new apartment. OhhhhhhYeah. Only 1 Meg this time because I was too cheap to fork out for 2 Megs. So . . . instead of blogging from the local library or the neighbours computer, I get to blog from my Mac Mini, write the blog posts on…

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Thanksgiving

We are celebrating the USA Thanksgiving on Thursday – I will be in the kitchen and I refuse to blog. Our kids, most of whom were born in USA, are really excited about it. Normally we throw a big party and invite the whole town, but since our apartment above a restaurant doesnt have the…

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Best Book on the Emerging Church

The book is finally out in USA. Brits need to wait until Feb 06. Its called "Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Communities in Postmodern Cultures" by Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs. I read the manuscript 6 months ago and spent quite a long time on the phone with Ryan. I am really excited about this book…

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Getting a House?

There is a house next to the youth hostel in Stromness that we are trying to get. Tomorrow is the last day for bids. Someone in the town has offered to buy the house (since we have no money and cannot get a mortgage in UK) and let us use it for the time being,…

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The UK Gathering

  Just Announced! UK National Gathering for EmergingChurch/Alt.Worship/FreshExpressions/Whatever [Whats the difference?] 100 delegates ONLY so you may want to get in quickly. Jonny Baker has more info or read on for details. . . ALSO: The final BLAH for the year is Dec 7 in London. I am planning to be there on my way…

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Jesus the Emergent Pastor

"When we make Jesus timeless we make him useless."  John Frye, "Jesus The Radical Pastor" who is doing a series on Jesus: Jesus the (First) Emergent Pastor 1 – Jesus the Emergent Pastor: Worldview 2. Jesus the Emergent Pastor: God 3. Jesus the Emergent Pastor: Bible 4. Jesus the Emergent Pastor: New Ways of Seeing…

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Boars Head Tavern and Luther

Mistake. Did I say yesterday that Boars Head Tavern was reformed? OOoppps. I got it confused with the other virtual pub . .  . White Horse Inn. Apologies to BHT for calling them reformed and to White Horse Inn for saying they support the emerging church. I dont think D.A. Carson would call himself a…

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REsource Training in January

I just agreed to teach at a weekend training event called ReSource.  Jan 20-22, 2006 in Sheffield, UK. It will be for those who are starting up or leading new expressions of church. This is connected with the Resource event I taught at a few months ago at The Custard Factory in Birmingham, along with…

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