Taking a break from blogging. June is a busy month and i am on the road a lot. I want my home time to be hanging with my family and not tracking controversies or responding to comments. In fact, new comments will be held up until i can get to them – don’t hold your…
Read MoreBare Facts Uncovered on EC Criticism
The controversy over an emerging church’s NUDE ministry on a Wales beach is uncovered in this ABC media watch report (video here). Glad to hear they found the bare facts and eventually presented the naked truth on what Rev. Adam Sapple was doing there with only a dog collar. Jonny has the skinny-dip. – Sydney…
Read MoreEmerging Church: New Zealand on top
Johannes played with the new Google service called Trends and typed in emerging church. Very reassuring to see Godzone country take its RIGHTFUL place in the global emerging church hierarchy. Do I hear an Amen from my Kiwi homies? Sounds like a good reason to buy Emergent Kiwi Steve Taylor’s excellent book “Out Of Bounds…
Read MoreBlogging Advice in the Wild Wild Web 2.0
The rules of blogging have changed for our brave new web and Eric Kintz has some good advice. Why blog frequency does not matter anymore #1 Traffic is generated by participating in the community; not daily posting #2 Traffic is irrelevant to your blog’s success anyway #3 Loyal readers coming back daily to check your…
Read More666: You Do The Math
Its the 6th day of the 6th month on the 6th year of a new century and its also a great day to freak out Christians. The fear of the number 666 is called hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Thats a big word. And possibly the biggest Technorati tag ever created. Google No. 1 rated site is 666Watch and…
Read MoreIreland This Week
This week I will be with church innovators and leaders in Dublin and around Ireland who are focused on new movements in their country. They tell me it will be very low key and informal. And I heard that the Sunday brunch might be open to outsiders – if you can put up with me…
Read MoreMidAir Keyboards for VJ’s
VJ’s, digital storytellers and multi-media preachers take note. A new wireless MIDI keyboard called MidAir comes out soon from M-Audio. I have used the previous model – the Oxy8 – to trip my video loops for about 3 years and will be sticking with it, despite having to plug in directly to my computer. HT:…
Read MorePentecost Sunday
Its Pentecost Sunday – time for God’s breath to enliven new things. Here is my poem from last years Pentecost Grid Blog. Technorati Tags: christianity, pentecost
Read MoreEmerging Church Japan
When I was in Japan i was continually asked if i knew Lowell Shepherd. I still haven’t met him but I like what I hear. In a fascinating interview with emergingchurch.info that i found on the Baker blog, Lowell throws out some great thoughts: – “The non church movement however, is evidence of the Mission…
Read MoreParty’s Over
Thats it. Thanks for coming over. The wife had me gardening most of the day – saturday being a no internet for this blogaholic – but it was nice to read your comments. I am serious about the book deal if anyone has the time to go through the blog and make a mash-up. Love…
Read MoreBlogiversary Games
Game 1 – Make a Blogging Tetrad Game 2 – Make a TSK Blog Family Tree Game 3 – Make a TSK Mash-up
Read More5 Year Blogiversary and the Downfall of TallSkinnyKiwi
UPDATE. June 3. Hey – HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY to TallSkinnyKiwi. 5 years. Thanks for stopping by today and also for being a part of my life and this blog. Thanks also for your comments over the years that have made this an interesting ride. Here is how my blog looks when i graph it. Some of…
Read MoreTSK through the years
A little historical journey through 5 blogaversies of the TallskinnyKiwi blog. June 3, 2001 – the original post June 3, 2002 – a minimal approach. June 3, 2003 – gallery of TSK blog banners. June 3, 2004 – some thoughts on the blogsophere June 3, 2005 – remembering the birth of TallSkinnyKiwi blog June 3,…
Read MoreGame 1: Build a Blogging Tetrad
GAME 1 We will explore how blogging has changed the way we treat media by building a tetrad based on McLuhans 4 laws of media. The answers we will use to build our tetrad are based on my adaption of these 4 questions from Marshall McLuhan: ENHANCE: . What does blogging enhance or amplify? REVERSE:…
Read MoreGame 2: Who’s Your Daddy?
In Game 2 we will try to build a Blog-Family Tree for those blogs with heritage leading back to TallSkinnykiwi (June 01). Sounds terrible egotistical for me to do this but I am proud of my blog- children, many of whom were up and blogging by the end of 2001: Jonny Baker Jordon Cooper already…
Read MoreGame 3 : TSK Mash-Up
This was where I was hoping to give you the 5 year file with all my posts and comments on it. Unfortunately, my technologies let me down and i dont have the file to give you. Yet. But everything is online and you can help yourself to whatever is there on my blogs. Now .…
Read MoreSt Magnus Church, Birsay
This morning Debbie and I went out to visit Birsay. I prayed for a while at the St Magnus church that has been around since 1067 when it was Christ’s Kirk. Its an amazing feeling to stand in a place where the gospel has been preached continuously for nearly 1000 years. Technorati Tags: church
Read More3 Seminary Podcasts on Emerging Church Movement
I have just listened to a conversation (3 podcasts) on the emerging church by an American theological seminary. And I was impressed BIGTIME. It was a fair, reasonable, humble, well balanced dealing with the American emerging church – yes it leans on the academic and biases the emerging church AUTHORS rather than practitioners, but these…
Read MoreCharles Colson Takes Another Shot
I just love how Charles Colson keeps bouncing back with more articles on the same thing, each time getting closer and closer. It's a life sentence to habitually write these articles and a true act of loving God. What perseverance! The man is certainly born again. A recent Colson article called Soothing Ourselves to Death…
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