Today is Reformation Day – Oct 31 – the day we think of Martin Luther fastening his 95 Theses on the gate in Wittenburg. And we think of Protestant Reformers around the world, before and after Luther, including ourselves, those of us who are still involved in the ongoing process to refine the church into…
Read MoreCampi on Reformation
Steve Camp has been building up towards Reformation Day. He has been calling for a special day of fasting and prayer today and has put out a hard hitting series on holiness and Reformation.Today’s post is a big one. Still Pounding on Wittenberg’s Door – 107 Theses for a reformation in Christian Ministry. Steve has…
Read MoreGreen Day Chat and Idiot Club (updated)
Green Day now have an official chat room as part of the new Idiot Club so you dont need to come here anymore to leave messages for Billie Joe. Its US$20 a year so join up when you save up enough. You get to see a preview of their new video which would be cool…
Read MoreWhat is the Emerging Church? Full Text.
Critiques of the emerging church don’t get much better than this. Scot’s talk last weekend at Westminster Theological Seminary is now available. You can get the PDF from Mark at Sacred Journey. Scot’s comments on the conference are blogged [thanks joe] Can I make a suggestion? Let Mark be the guardian of the Full text…
Read MoreThe Skinny on the Emerging Church Forum at WTS
I wasn’t there at the Emerging Church Forum at Westminster Theological Seminary but I thought it worth keeping an eye on and i had a few good chats with students and participants. If you took notes or have access to more links [especially audio] then please let me know. Tony at Sets ‘n’ Service has…
Read MoreThe 5 Books on Emerging Church You Need to Buy
So you want to get involved in the emerging church? Good. For those of you who dont do anything without reading a book [you know who you are], you may need to buy one or two books to get you moving. Here are the top five. My top five. The Canadians have been working on…
Read MoreNatural Daylight Time for Church Going
Church-going during NATURAL time . . . thank you very much. This was one of the reasons to protest daylight saving, according to a 1950’s Drive in advertisement in USA. The arguments against it were global. It was supposed to fade our curtains and stop the cows from producing milk. But it was even worse…
Read MoreBlogging advice for Godbloggers at Godblogcon
More Godblogcon participants are blogging up: Pajamas Media, Stand to Reason, La Shawn Barber The Right House. Others? Please tag your posts with "godblogcon" and we will find you. More: Skype Puppy, Emu. The closest thing UK has to this is the yearly gathering of bloggers at Greenbelt Festival and the various teaching sessions that…
Read MoreReformation 1: Scot McKnight at Westminster (updated)
Update: Heres Scot McKnight’s audio to download [thanks Gideon]. Scot speaks on why Don Carson’s book failed to describe the emerging church, why emerging church is different than emergent, why Steve Chalke is not a part of the emerging church, and what the emerging church is all about . . . in their own words.…
Read MoreOrkney Voted Number 6 Best Place to Live in UK
It might be a miserable day today because of severe gale force winds, flooding, and buses almost tipping over. But its a great day because Orkney was just voted No. 6 BEST PLACE TO LIVE in UK on Channel 4 for a number of good reasons such as being safe and beautiful and its residents…
Read MoreWhat Must We Learn and Unlearn?
I am just finishing off an article for Christianity Today. I need to send it off to Andy Crouch today – like in an hour – so my head in down and I am irritably unsociable until I have finished it. Its part of the Christian Vision Project which will tackle issues of global missiology…
Read MoreKult: Heretic Kingdoms action RPG
KULT: Heretic Kingdoms is a new RPG released for Mac. You get to be an Inquisitor with an attitude, killing off religious sects, fanatics and other freaks who think God is alive. Heres the skinny: “Set in the world of the Heretic Kingdoms, a world where God is dead and religion heresy, you are cast…
Read MoreOct 26: Orkney Island’s Firefox 2.0 Party
Firefox 2.0 release party. 4pm, Oct 26th. My place. Bring your notebook. WIFI provided and tea or coffee. We will dedicate this new browser to the Creator to be used for creativity, justice and happiness. Get invited here. Technorati Tags: blog, web 2.0
Read MoreThe Emerging Church Talk Down Under with Don Carson
I didnt blog it last month because i was blog-fasting, but i followed closely the conversation in Perth between Don Carson and two leaders of the emerging missional church – Andrew Hamilton (Hamo from Backyard Missionary) and Geoff Westlake. And since then, FORGE have posted the audio online. HT: Adonis Vidu Don Carson Critique of…
Read MoreYIKES!! My Wife Is Gone For Over 2 Weeks
They say you should never send a woman to do a man’s work. But the fact is, Debbie and i have been partnering in this funny thing called ministry (which is co-ed, btw) for about 20 years so I guess I can trust her to represent the Jones concerns. Actually, she often does better than…
Read MoreMassive is the New Big
If you have just read “Tiny is the New Small” then read this. Its the other half. The other side to being tiny is being part of something that is massive. This takes some getting used to. The scale is huge and out of proportion. But when Jesus described the Kingdom, he told parables of…
Read More5 Questions on Blogging
You can read all the answers on ChurchCommunicationsPro.com. I might be biased . . . but i liked my 5 answers the best. Technorati Tags: blog
Read MoreTiny is the New Small
Church for some of us happens in TINY increments, TINY spaces and sometimes with TINY amounts of people. It happens many times a week and many times a day when the various aggregations of God’s people come together around coffee or taking care of business or helping someone and especially at mealtimes. It happens more…
Read MoreBlogging for the Long Tail
A few years ago I was told by Blogger Forum that my little blogspot blog called Tallskinnykiwi had achieved Number 3 Top Site that week, beating out the Iraqi blogs, John Kerry and more importantly, humiliating the humorist blogger Dave Barry who I am sure never quite got over it. I thanked Blogger Forum for…
Read MoreThe Evils of Blogging
An article from the Restored Church of God warns about blogging in “Blogs and God’s Youth”. The dangers of blogging, according to the article, are openness and privacy, vanity, and idle words. Potential bloggers are advised to avoid the appearance of evil. “Blogging has become a socially accepted practice—just as are dating seriously too young,…
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