Its a really huge event at the Berlin Olympic Stadium and its called Calling All Nations. Organizer Noel Richards told me about his ideas for it back in 1998. After a successful event in Wembley Stadium, he was hoping to host another in Berlin. He was talking about 2001, or 2003. Well, fast forward 6…
Read More300 photos of USA trip
Amy Chapman (bless her heart) of thebearablelight.com has just posted 300 images from our 7000 mile USA pilgrimage, as well as her unbearable experience of hanging with us for so long and putting up with our crazy lifestyle. And that of her husband Derek. Go to Circus and Light on Flickr. Have fun. Leave some…
Read MoreEmerging Church Critics (Updated)
The Anti-Emergent blogs, and the more moderate Emergent-Critics blogs, have been far more interesting in the past week than the emerging church blogs that often inspire them. Here’s some highlights: – Carla of Emergent.blogspot.com is not happy with Justin for buying the EmergentNo.com domain name. Justin says he wants to aggregate from many anti-emergent sites…
Read MoreAirCon Overkill
I saw this house in Austin Texas last month. Anyone care to count the airconditioners?
Read MoreMy Cuzz’s Bible
I have a great new bible that my Cuzz and his friends put together. This will be the version I quote from and use in my studies. Its called The Net Bible and there is an online version also at bible.org [Bible.org? How are we supposed to remember that?] I have been searching for a…
Read MoreHopeful Rumors
Toronto. Kirk Bartha reports that things are heating up spiritually in Toronto in preperation for the Passion conference. Some students are fasting this week. Shetland. Miriam tells me that people were becoming followers each night at some events last week with Michael Harcus and Eddie. Maybe this is the one we have been waiting for?…
Read MorePeter Drucker
Leadership Network mourns the passing of Peter Drucker. Bob Buford, who was greatly influenced by his friendship with Drucker, and Brad Smith were the people that gave the go-ahead for Young Leaders that later became Emergent Village.
Read MoreOn Paul Proctor
There is a hot issue regarding the emerging church that is so degrading that i mention it only to bring my support to the memory and reputation of the late Kyle Lake, who passed recently in the service of God. Bob Hyatt gets steaming angry at fundamentalist Paul Proctor’s response to Kyle’s death and writes…
Read MoreEnd of the week and we are pretty much moved in to our new apartment, a little home above a restaurant in downtown Stromness. Debbie has managed to find places for our things and made the place look bigger than it actually is. Still no internet. I have been struggling with dial up numbers while…
Read MoreBlogging Less, Living More
My name is Andrew and I am a blogaholic. Hours seem like minutes to me, when I am online. My kids say that their dad is always on the computer . . . which is not exactly true . . but I dont like the sound of that and I dont want their memory of…
Read MoreBack Home in Scotland
Finally . .. we made it back to Orkney on the ferry. Kids are in school today and we are trying to get organized in our new apartment – no internet connection yet and no broadband for 10 days. Dublin was a blast and a much needed halfway house on the way home. Things are…
Read MoreLeaving on a Jet Plane
We are heading off to the airport in Houston and will fly to Dublin for a day on the way to Scotland Its been a really incredible time – busy and full . . lots of people and meetings and events. We put about 7,050 miles on the rental van. I have only told a…
Read MoreIn Honor of Kyle Lake
We are all grieving over the loss of Kyle Lake, pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. He passed away yesterday in an accident at his church. Kyle was 33 and leaves behind a wife and 3 children. I met Kyle a number of times, the last time was at the church that he…
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