Went with Mark Berry to a BBC reception last night. The dinner at the Custard Factory was a thank you to the many amateur filmakers who had contributed their 90 second short films to BBC West Midlands. Mark has produced a two films from his town of Telford and is working on a third. This…
Read MoreA Mohawk in the Family
A special moment in my household and i am on the road – in Birmingham, actually, at the Custard Factory. This is where i taught last year on Yeast and the Kingdom. So . . . what event of familial importance took place today? Not an anniversay. Not a birthday. . . no . .…
Read MoreTraveling Again
On the road again. I wasnt blogging the past few days so that i could spend more time with family. In the past few days we have had sports day at school, bought an old pool table for our youth room, watched an episode of LOST, went trout fishing (me and my friend Peter). Only…
Read MoreBlogging Stuff
– Wired News covered the BloggerCon last weekend. – Billy Calderwood has a good post on Southern Baptist Convention and the ‘bloggin boys’ Technorati Tags: blog, blogging
Read Moremy experience with the charismatic catholics
i just had a really amazing experience. A few days ago i preached at a charismatic catholic church in bari, italy. it was only for 10 minutes and i was not the only person behind the pulpit . . . but this experience was huge for me and i want to process it a little…
Read MoreJosh Cook and Scum of the Earth
i am chatting with josh cook of scum of the earth and sox place. I have heard of this church many years ago but never visited it in denver or met josh. but here we are, having a chai in glasgow and talking about ministry to the underground. Its an interesting name for a church…
Read Morejesus adhesive bandages
add this one to your collection of silly jesus junk hat tip: gizmodo Technorati Tags: jesus, religion
Read MoreGeeking out in Glasgow
I have a day in Glasgow and a few appointments with people. After a long and frustrating disconnected week in WiFi deprived Italy, I finally get to catch up on email and life in general. I am hanging out at Babylon [Starbucks] on Sauchiehall street if anyone wants to come over and buy me a…
Read MoreIn Bari
Italy. Weather is hot and the food is great. We are in Bari today, having a meeting with Matteo Calisi of Comunita di Gesu, who is President of the Catholic Fraternity of Charasmatic Covenant Communities. There is about 120 million charasmatic catholics in the world. All going well but lack of WiFi so I am…
Read MoreA walk along the coast
I post this picture to get my mothers attention – HI MUM!!!!!! We are well and enjoying our exhilerating family walks on Orkney Island. And no Mum, we will NOT stand too close to the edge . . . next time . . . The Island of Hoy was great last weekend. Scottish YWAM Director…
Read MoreRome and Naples
Leaving on another jet plane today. Rome tonight, Vatican City tomorrow morning and Naples for most of the week with my homies at DAWN Europe. We will be meeting up with some Italian ministry leaders during the week. Then a day in Glasgow and home.
Read MoreDreamDay Edinburgh
wee pict says: aye! revival is already here, saints o scotland -ye just need tae open wide yer eyes n unblock yer bunged up ears! I have to miss the Dreamday again – the Scottish probably think i am snobbing them all but there always seems to be something else in my schedule – like…
Read Morehow do you build a cathedral?
This morning I was thinking of the current movements of budding, emerging, half-formed churches that are not yet as mature as they need to be – fluid, cookie-dough kinds of cyber-churches and house churches and coffee shop churches and hybrids of hybridic churches that are still struggling to explain the journey they believe God is…
Read MoreEmerging Church Video from Japan, Prague and Colombia
I have been bugging Olgavaro Bastos Jnr from Tribal Generation about putting his videos online and he has finally done it. In the past 6 years, we have pulled off a number of roundtables and gathering events together, and the Brazilians have kept better video footage than anyone. There are now videos on their website…
Read MoreThe Web 2.0 List You Were Looking For
This Web 2.0 companies list might be a a tongue-in-cheek look at the hype of Web 2.0 but still, its worth a read. There are web solutions on his list that took me weeks and even months to track down – this list would have saved me a lot of time. A number of these…
Read MoreSBC New President and the Emerging Church
“I see many valuable contributions to the SBC coming from the Emergent Leaders Movement. I believe it is a positive thing to see a broader number of participants in our convention’s direction. I personally applaud this movement.” Frank Page, interview with bloggers Technorati Tags: baptist, Emergent, emerging church, emerging movement, sbc
Read MoreThe 50 Books on My Emerging Church Bookshelf
[click to enlarge] This is my emerging church bookshelf at home in UK where 50+ emerging church books sit happily together, one shelf above my missiology books which undergird them both spatially and philosophically. I am missing a number of excellent books that i have given away (like “Mission-Shaped Church”) or are still in my…
Read MoreNot Done With the FlannelGraph. Yet.
This one is part of the Wibsite Flannelgraph Season: The Joy of Fuzzy Felt. The crazy bloggers at Wibsite are giving new life to flannelgraphs and i only have one complaint . . . that i did not think of this first!!! Actually, i have been on the lookout for REAL ACTUAL flannelgraphs that i…
Read MoreAt Glendalough, Ireland
Had a great time at Glendalough, the Celtic monastic site made famous by St Kevin. Its an amazing place and I really enjoyed a prayerful, nostalgic walk about the monastery grounds. Really peaceful and full of history. You can imagine what it felt like to arrive at the monastic city after a long pilgrimage or…
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