Well . . . the whole family decided to join me on this trip. Fair enough. We are packing the Peugeot right now and cleaning the house. So . . . here is a basic schedule Monday 30th – leave Orkney. Sheffield by evening, hopefully in time for Shannon’s birthday party Tuesday 1st. Appointment with…
Read MoreGlobal Roundtable and Emerging Church Seminar
I am off on Monday to Edinburgh and then Germany. I am taking my son Samuel on this trip. One of the highlights for me will be teaching a seminar at Freakstock Festival in Germany on the emerging church. I will be teaching it from a German perspective and will base my history on what…
Read MoreHow To Ask Foundations for Money
Today I am writing up some proposals that i will be presenting to a number of Foundations when i am back in USA next month (Aug 21-25). This kind of thing really wears me out but its a necessary part of mission work and getting the job done. My previous mode of working was to…
Read MoreEC Conversation Pieces
– Scot McKnight (who has retaken first place on technorati EC blogs for the second time) discusses Spencer Burkes new book. – Out of Ur has a good article on Monasteries for Spiritual Formation – Paco Rosic from Sarajevo is painting the Sistine Chapel in Iowa and he is choosing the grafitti aesthetic. HT: Chad…
Read MoreMy Wife is Cool
Debbie took a class on the medieval art of painting on stained glass at an English cathedral last week. Its a dying art form. She learned from someone who studied under the Italian masters and was invited back for a further 3 days at her farm. No one else in the class was invited to…
Read MoreThe Emergent Church – 1980
Another book for my vintage emerging church book collection. “The Emergent Church:The Future of Christianity in a Postbourgeois World” ” by Johann Baptist Metz, 1980 (German), 1981 (English). Found it yesterday online and it arrived today. Thats fast. The book has some good thoughts on “towards the second reformation”, and forming church with power from…
Read MoreMother, Please
Really hilarious movie – Betty Crocker with an attitude. View at Helios Design Labs or download original for a better copy: motherplease.mov (3.9 Meg) HT: Michela at RemixableFilms Technorati Tags: video, vj
Read MoreIcons and the Possibility of a Tropological Theology
Worship using icons, images and multimedia is being discussed right now, especially in relation to Calvary Church’s stance on iconic worship and the emerging church. It might be helpful to look at the idea of tropological theology. Tropological theology is found all the way through church history. “Augustine suggested a four-fold sense which would later…
Read MoreSwarm released by Digg Labs
Swarm: A great Web 2.0 info-experience and i already have an account. All kinds of news and info popping up on the screen in the same way my brain works . . . but . . . no RELIGION news! Come on, we are waiting . . . Technorati Tags: tech, web 2.0
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
Emergent Poetry: The ladies of Emergent Village have created Efflouresce, a really beautiful poetic/image piece that you can download for free. [PDF]. Thanks Holly. HT: EmergingGod Postcolonial Read: Andy Crouch interviews Rt. Rev. Dr. David Zac Niringiye in Experiencing Life in the Margins. Catholic Criticism:Domenico Bettinelli bemoans the “. . . many lapsed Catholics flocking…
Read MoreTechnorati’s New Look
Great to see Technorati revamp its excellent site, but when OH WHEN are they going to correct the bug that causes my blog to be counted twice??????????. And yes, i have emailed them about this problem. Technorati Tags: technorati
Read MoreThe Porpoise Diving Life
I am NOT an easy target for people advertising their ideas and products and I cannot be bought. This is what i am telling myself as i write a blog post on the porpoise diving life. I am, however, grateful to Bill Dahl for my new embroided Porpoise Diving Life hat that keeps me .…
Read MoreLong Tail of Godmakers Mormon Movie
“Mormon theology in 6 minutes” as someone called it . Its the number one rated educational video on Digg and its an old retro animation that i saw 2 decades ago when “Temple of the Godmakers” was shown at our church [Talk about the long tail . . . .] But now you can watch…
Read MoreReflections on Blah
30 of us met for 24 hours at High Leigh conference centre near London. We were discussing emerging church USA and UK, based on Ryan’s book. The scene was overwhelmingly Maccentric. Reminds me of that emerging bloggers cartoon with the odd man out. PC users, a scarce and persecuted minority here, brought out their laptops…
Read MoreDays of the Dead at Cornerstone
Interesting conversation going on about Cornerstone Festival’s Imaginarium theme this year – named Days of the Dead. Quite controversial, actually. A ‘covert mission’ to witness to the Christians at Cornerstone has led to a conversation that will no doubt explode onto the wider stage. Slice opens the issue, and accuses Cornerstone of introducing occultism. Lint…
Read MoreThe 1% Rule and Our Blogging Dilemma
It has been said that one in 100 is a content creator, or so i read today from Mindy McAdams who interacts with the 1% Rule from Charles Arthur: “It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact”…
Read MoreDaft Raft and the Wellie Throwing Contest
Its been a great week here in Stromness with the Shopping Week celebrations. For the record, I came second in the Wellie [Gumboot] throwing contest and third in the 100m run against the other dads. The noisy pink raft called Shiela’s Wheels was the most interesting contestant in the Daft Raft race. We are talking…
Read MoreHow Your Emerging Church Can Stay in Calvary Chapel, Inc
You LOVE being in the Calvary Chapel fellowship of churches but are scared that your emerging church style worship will get you kicked out. I feel your pain and understand the tension. CC a great fellowship with an incredible history. In fact, my wife grew up in SoCal and was a regular at the Costa…
Read MoreEmerging Church the Fastest Growing Group in Christianity?
Great to see the Americans getting on board with the emerging church, which is being described as the fastest growing group in Christianity. CBS investigates with a special report. Unfortunately, their video focuses on the worship service based churches and does not go out to the house churches and cell churches where much of this…
Read MoreEmerging Church Bloggers Cartoon
Mac? Yes Typepad? Yes Earphones? Yes – just bought another set. Bonos (sunglasses)? Yes, on occasion. Crowder (gottee)? NO – I cut it off a decade ago. Maybe I would be an imposter also. Cartoon found on Mixed Moss Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, emerging church
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