“. . . a bottom-up movement, driven by a desire among 20s and 30s to create spiritual homes appropriate to their culture.” Steve Adams, from a pretty good article – Emerging Options, Christianity Magazine
Read MoreTim Berners-Lee Gets a Blog
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, gets a blog and posts some thoughts about blogging and creative space: “In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could…
Read MoreIntel’s New Platform
eWeek gives a closer look at the Intel processor that will probably power the new Mac powerbooks next year (Jan??) and PCs. The new mobile platform is called Napa and the dual-core Yonah processor is supposed to outperform their current laptops by 68%. I hope to replace my iBook early next year and are waiting…
Read MoreSigns the EC Is Not For You
Hilarious post: Emergent What? suggests that the Emergent Church is not for you if . . your church is lit by: and not: and there are plenty more at Signs the EC is Not For You over there. Related: You might be emergent if . . . Technorati Tags: Emergent, emerging church
Read MoreFamily Update
Snow everywhere here in Stromness and we are hanging out in our town this weekend. Good news: – We are all well and enjoying life. – A school building has come up for sale – Squeak, our second cat, came home after 2 months away – Tamara’s chicken pox are gone – Debbie found a…
Read MoreEmerging Church Update
– Andy Dragt of The Branch has created a beta Squidoo on Emerging Church – Tony Jones of Emergent Village spoke at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary yesterday, and enjoyed a generous ecumenical handshaking of President Al Mohler’s hand. Read Tony’s account. – YS Marko has just completed his “Rant by a Runt” on the American…
Read MoreBest Books on Emerging-Missional Church
Kevin Cawley has a Readers Guide for Missional Church. Good list and great books. Anyone who writes a blog series on the emerging church who does not read a few of these good books on the missional church should be slapped silly with their keyboard. Shaping of Things to Come by Hirsch and Frost (blogged…
Read MoreWhen Your Blogging Host Goes South
Typepad.com seems to be coming up for air – good to see the text restored and signs that my images might come back this weekend. Sorry for the inconvenience. Its a good reminder to BACK UP YOUR BLOGS, despite how stable your blogging host. I have done it many times with the free version of…
Read MoreBlogging Church
BloggingChurch.com is a book, a web site, and a series of podcasts that are worth listening to . . . especially if you are a Rex Miller fan. Technorati Tags: blog, church, emerging church
Read MoreEmergent Twins
Separated from birth. From the recent Emergent Gathering in New Mexico. Featured twins are Doug Pagitt, Freddy Hellstrom, and Randy Haney of The Harbor Photos of the event are available here and here if anyone cares find more. Technorati Tags: Emergent, emerging church
Read MoreEmergent Beards
(image found on Aaron’s blog) The Emergent Controversy has been raging through the American churches and I wish to put an end to once and for all. Right now. The official Emergent™ Beard pointed out by Kester and named “The Crowder” by Bob is NOT . . . I repeat . . NOT the official…
Read MoreSkinny on China
The fifth most visited web site in the world is www.baidu.com, a Chinese search engine that resembles Google but offers MP3 and SWF file searches in addition to everything on Google (Wikipedia) Apparently, music is free and legal to download in China (makes you want to learn Chinese, dunnit?) which is why Baidu is being…
Read MoreWho Defines Orthodoxy?
Good question. Brian McLaren was asked it recently. I am not sure what answer was expected, but here is my answer. Question: Who defines orthodoxy? Answer: In the 19th Century it was the English In the 20th Century it was the North Americans In the 21st Century it will be the Africans
Read MoreMy DAWN Homies
I met with my DAWN Europe buddies last week in Zurich. DAWN stands for Discipling a Whole Nation and I work part time for them as an Associate. We meet at least 3x a year and its always a great time of talking mission-geek stuff – strategy, numbers, trends, research, challenges, books . .. I…
Read MoreChristmas Time
I have suddenly and quite joyfully entered the Christmas season. My traveling is over for the month and Christmas carols are playing in our house. I am buying a few gifts, thinking about reading some Max Lucado books and eating rich foods drizzled with custard. I have been viewing and collecting some consumery virtual Christmas…
Read MoreBlack Smoke Over London
I arrived in London a few hours after the actual explosion at Hemel-Hampstead yesterday and I watched the smoke over London from the window at Heathrow airport. The same image was on the TV all day. Kinda weird – watching this black towering shape on the TV and seeing the real life version outside from…
Read MoreCountries in 2006
During our meeting in Zurich, I was given some new assignments and have tightened up my schedule for 2006 and will be posting the exact dates before the end of the year. God willing, these are the countries I will be traveling to for conferences, roundtables and training events: Sweden, India, South Africa, Hungary, Czech…
Read MoreBack From Zurich
almost, anyway. i am in london again hanging out at the airport for my flight to Orkney. Great time in Zurich with teammates and friends from the continent. We made a lot of plans for next year = web sites, trips, research. Tell you more later.
Read MoreLeaving London
Off to the airport. London was a good trip. Stayed with Cindy Blick and Shannon Hopkins in Bow. Yesterday I met with Jonny C and Paul T at Church Missionary Society.
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