– Faithmaps is back with a new design – Any student of the emerging church will run across many articles of Stephen Shields, the guy behind Faithmaps. – DJ Vicar has a podcast (HT: Mark Berry) – A list of famous Christians – Foul Language is a big topic on a few blogs like the…
Read MoreCopyleft and Jesus
Would Jesus charge a fee for his Beatitudes podcast? Here are some old thoughts on copyleft.
Read MoreTop Blog in the World
Xujinglei The number one rated blog in the world (under Technorati) with over 29,000 permanent links is Xujinglei from China. Time to learn Chinese!!! Technorati Tags: blog, china
Read MoreWhy You Should Plant a Church
“What will it look like?” I grew to love answering “I have no earthly idea.” All I could say was that if a bunch of cloggers and bluegrass musicians showed up, well… we’d be the clogging church. Bob Hyatt tells all in Why YOU should plant a church. Technorati Tags: church
Read MoreGetting Things Moving
An article I wrote for Worship Leader is online. Its called “Getting Things Moving” and its about movement in worship. I suggest the following ways to get things moving at your church; – Pray with your bodies – Install an interactive worship station – Create a multi-media labyrinth – Set up a 24/7 prayer room…
Read MoreKyle’s Film
Friends of the late Kyle Lake have made a film to honor his life and contribution.
Read MoreSlice of Nicolatia
Some thoughts on heresy from Dr Victor Choudrie, medical doctor and a big fan of simple meals in homes for believers as the best way to celebrate the Lord’s supper. Most new churches planted worldwide, Victor observes, are started by housewives. Technorati Tags: christianity, communion, home church, house church
Read MoreThe Lord’s Supper and the EC
“so let me get this straight. after examining the last supper of Jesus and the historical accounts of the early church, you have come up with a communion service that: – excludes children, swaps a full meal for a sample, avoids any technology, forbids joy or laughter, happens in a hall with men on a…
Read MoreStan Grenz and the Blogosphere
Ed Cyzewski has a PDF on Stan Grenz’s contribution to the Christian blogosphere. Its called “Christian Blogs: Fulfilling Grenz’s Communal Vision for Theology.” Technorati Tags: blog, bloggers, stan grenz
Read MoreGender Equality and Leadership
Good news on the horizon. Gender equality is nearly here. After a long spell of gender imbalance due to sheer numerical strength, my world is opening up to the other sex. I think it is fair to say that gender equality is in sight, although still far off. Finally . . . . we are…
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
– From Dwight Friesen – International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church has devoted their entire issue (Vol 6, No. 1, March 2006) to the Emerging Church. I was able to give some input on this but have not read the final product or the many essays. Its $80 to read it online…
Read MoreMacBook is here
The MacBook. Its here. Finally. And its exactly as predicted by MacRumors and other sources. The new MacBook replaces the ibook – of which i have had two. It comes in white or the more expensive, slightly faster, slightly bigger 80 Gig HD in the wicked color BLACK, which seems better looking but i am…
Read MoreAnti-intellectualism in the emergent conversation
Matt Glock brings up the issue of anti-intellectualism in the emergent conversation from last week’s Divergent gathering. Matt, who deserves applause for carrying my bags through Geneva, needs your prayers today for his first shot of chemotherapy. He had his thyroid taken out a few weeks ago and is grateful for prayers in the virtual…
Read MoreHow (Not) to Speak of God
Pete Rollins, who was with me last week in Switzerland, has released his first book – the most challenging emerging church book I have read for a long time. “How (Not) To Speak of God” is a thoughtful and original book, delivering some heavy-duty thinking from Marion and Derrida in a manner that is accessible…
Read MoreThe Growth of New Media
Darren at Problogger gives some reasons why he thinks new media is growing including: participation, suspicion of institution, playfulness, relationality, holism, juxtoposition, DIY and immediacy. Technorati Tags: new media
Read MoreCommunion by Numbers
Something really funny happened and I have an audio file that I extracted from my video. On Saturday we all went over to Grace for a communion service called “Communion By Numbers”. Jonny and Jenny Baker, who came to our pizza party the night before, were hosting it. Before the service began, we were told…
Read MoreGoing Home
Just leaving London for Aberdeen to catch my ferry. Its been a great time in London with the Americans and Germans. Much to tell but i will wait for tomorrow.
Read MoreDivergent
Divergent was the Emergent Conversation held in Geneva this week. Official title was “Priests, Prophets and Theologians: Divergent views on the future of the Church (PDF) Podcasts and other media are on their way. We met in John Calvins church during the day and stayed in a large house in France at night. 3 days…
Read MoreGuerilla Gardening in London
Breakfast this morning in London. Does this picture make me look BALDING? I hanging with a group of Americans and Germans and Brits to work on some projects together over a few days. Sorry for the blog silence. I was staying in a large French house this week near Geneva and wifi was absent. The…
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