I have been wondering why so many Green Day fans come here and leave a comment on a post called “Virtual Chatroom for Dummies” that has nothing to do with Green Day. Except for the fact that someone mentioned them in the comments section and started off a small Green Day fan club on my…
Read MoreRecent Books
The most enjoyable book i read all year was “Linked” by Albert- Lazlo Barabasi. This week I re-read Transforming Mission by David Bosch. New stuff everytime I look at it. What an incredible book! I also read “Shaping of Things to Come” by Alan Hirsh and Mike Frost for the third time. These two books…
Read MoreRe-imagining Cyberchurch
An article i wrote for Relevant mag just came out.It was originally called “Reimagining Cyberchurch” as a nod to Doug Pagitt. But the editors have called it “Linking to Cyberchurch” and thats fine with me. Relevant Magazine holds very high standards in both content and graphics so I am just happy to have them publish…
Read MoreEarly At Dawn
I am working on a team blog for DAWN Europe today. The blog will be released in January and will cover missiology, church planting movements and significant resources, events, etc. Should be good. It will be called EarlyAtDawn. Not sure if i will use this graphic or not. Is it too cheesy?
Read MoreThe Probabilist Age
Chris Anderson of The Long Tail Blog has a good post on The Probalist Age and the Wikipedia vs Britannica debate. Chris has also found a way to cheat Google – by using unpopular keywords on his ultra-lame Google Ad, he gets thousands of page impressions but because there are no click-throughs, he doesn’t have…
Read MoreXFN for Social Networking
I am tired of joining silly social software systems and I don’t want to answer any more dumb questions about myself. If the web is so smart, why are we always repeating ourselves? On the other hand, I am excited about the possibilities for social networking through the media I already maintain. Like my blog.…
Read MoreReading the Bible in 2006
I am getting an early start on reading the Bible through in 2006. I am embarrassed to say that I didn’t stick to the plan in 2005 but instead meandered off and ended up reading and re-reading the passages I prefer and that support my greatest theories. Thats not always a good thing. I like…
Read MoreTagging Your Blogs Over The Break
Its a holiday break for your blog – and for you to get it sorted out – new design, tidied up (thats me), listed with search engines (like Jonny) and my big recommendation this season . . . to start tagging your posts and even go back through your blog and tag the important posts.…
Read MoreChristmas Day
Its here. Christmas Day. Last night we went to the carol service at Stromness Baptist Church. Today we are cooking and hanging out and seeing friends. I am cooking a wicked free range Goose that grew up just over the hill from us. Stuffed with a chestnut/cranberry/bacon/mushroom stuffing and awaiting a 2001 Babich Pinot Noir…
Read MoreOur Post-Reformation Christmas
Our kids are off school now and working on the celebrations for our Christmas day – our second Christmas in Scotland. Christmas was squashed by the Reformers in Scotland about 400 years ago because it was too Catholic (read this) and its taken a long time for it to recover. As recently as the 1960’s,…
Read MoreA Little Help on my Church 2.0 Article?
Help save my Christmas! I am really struggling with this article. And i need to write it before Christmas for Next-Wave because I SAID I WOULD. I want to locate the parallels between Web 2.0 and the emerging church (Church 2.0) because there is a lot that both conversations can learn from each other. I…
Read MoreBlogging from Restricted Countires
You want to blog but your country clamps down on free expression on the web. What do you do? If you want to start blogging without risking your neck, I highly recommend a new resource in downloadable PDF called "Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents". You will find 2 chapters that will be of immense value…
Read MoreAll I Want For Christmas is AJAX
All I want for Christmas is Ajax I don’t want a tall skinny tree or lots of presents under it. All I ask for are some Web 2.0 goodies that are zipped and not wrapped. I want PHP and not PAJAMAS. Give me widgets and not gadgets. Give me a torrent of flashy de.licio.us gifts…
Read MoreEmerging Church TagCloud
Emerging Church TagCloud created by Damon Snyder who mashed the Tallskinnykiwi blog feed with 20 emerging church blog feeds. I gave it a shot myself but havent seen much sucess. Below is my first attempt – a simple Tallskinnykiwi Cloud based on recent posts. I am not sure how to get it to aggregate my…
Read MoreYour Best Stewardess Now!
Lots of discussion about Victoria Osteen (wife of Joel Osteen of USA’s largest church) getting kicked off yesterday’s plane to Vail, Colorado. – an incident called “minor” although although it involved Continental Airlines, FBI agents, and the Associated Press. Yahoo News gives no reasons but Houston Clear Thinkers and Houston Chronicle say it was the…
Read MoreViola on Five Fold Ministry
"What is needed, then, is the restoration of the experience of the Body of Christ." Frank Viola just sent me his latest article which tackles the idea of "Five Fold Ministry" – something that has cropped up a number of times in the comments section. Frank is great. He has some kickbutt books – "Who…
Read MoreBlog Flashback
Heres how my blog looked in 2001. Amazing how things have changed so quickly and its good to be reminded of how lucky we are today with all our bells and whistles. This old blog is now parked permanently at tallskinnykiwi.blogspot.com Note that there are NO comments because they hadn’t been invented yet – I…
Read MoreTip Jar Feature
I am installing a Tip Jar for those that want to say thanks with a quick click. I also put up Firefox’s referral badge on my right column. If you download and start using Firefox’s Google Toolbar, then I get $1. This is something worth roadtesting for other bloggers – especially my blogging friends overseas…
Read MoreMegachurches, Christmas and Video
A few decades ago, Willow Creek Community Church was in trouble with the critics for shifting the believers worship time from Sunday to Wednesday. Now they are generating an even greater amount of conversation with their decision to close for Christmas day. – BlogCritics.org is not impressed. – Neither are Ben Witherington or Tim Challies.…
Read MoreGoogleFight for Emerging Church
By the sheer luck of my geeky son using the computer before me, i discovered the joy and addiction of Google Fighting. Emerging Church vs Emergent Church. Click here to see which is the winner. After 3 or 4 fights, I walked away from the computer . . . and from blogging. Hope you can…
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