TSK: Say, its about time I mapped my domain name. I hope Technorati still recognizes me when its done. In case you havent noticed, I recently used the domain mapping feature on typepad to map my domain name “tallskinnykiwi.com” to my main blog. That address was tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com, or, if you found the extra time to…
Read MoreMust we be seated for this movement?
pews . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . .. pulpits. . . . . preachers must we be seated for this movement? Dan Kimball says it wasn’t meant to be this way and back in the day, it wasn’t. “Most of our church architecture today was…
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
Worthy: Converging Church – Mike looks at the various streams Fishing the Abyss on the difference between ‘traditional’ and ’emerging’ Guidelines for Criticizing the Emerging Church by Michael Spencer Latest ‘Heretic’: Bob Hyatt, newest editor for Next-Wave which is possibly the greatest emerging church online publication ever. [fyi – Bob is NOT a heretic] Recent…
Read MoreThe Bible Commentary and the Blog of Chris Seay
That chapter I was writing for a new Bible commentary has been released. Its called The Dust Off Their Feet: Transitioning the Church to Conform to His Will Then/ Now and it’s a commentary on Acts written by a number of emerging church practitioners. My piece is on Acts 10-13 from a missiologist’s standpoint, and…
Read MoreLausanne Young Leaders
The Lausanne Younger Leaders Meeting in Port Dickson, Malaysia seemed to go well. Lots of younger people went – over 500 from 110 countries. There were reports at Christian Today and Christianity Today and you can check out the offical LYG blog to find some more participants. Some of them blogged: Life in colour Getting…
Read MoreA World Without Walls
“The walls of a classroom become redundant because students are able to access real-time, any-time learning.” Greg Whitby on SMH comments on a new 24-hour Catholic school proposed for Australia. I was thinking this morning about churches without walls and this article grabbed my attention. I would say much of what we are doing now…
Read MoreFamily Update: school holidays and foster kitten
This is our family yesterday. School holidays starts today and the house is NOISY with our kids and their friends. Technorati Tags: beer, kitten
Read MoreA discussion on How (Not) to Speak of God
Church and Postmodern Culture kicks off an online conversation with Pete Rollins TODAY that will continue all month. I blogged about Pete Rollin’s book last year. Some of you have read it. Now its time to discuss it. Pete is a delightfully funny and thoughtful friend of mine and I am hoping that many of…
Read MoreEmerging Church Update and events
Here are some emerging church type events in USA over the next month or so. Oct 26-28 Westminster Seminary has an Emerging Church Forum with Michael Horton, Scot McKnight and John Franke – all three guys are totally worthwhile hearing. Oct 26-28 GodBlogCon, Biola University, California Sweet website. A conference for bloggers – mostly conservative…
Read MoreMyths about the emerging church
myth: The emergent church began one day when Jerry Falwell had a splitting headache. He called Jim Dobson, who promptly fetched a battle-ax and smote Falwell in the head. When his skull split, Brian McLaren, Spencer Burke, and Tony Jones emerged, fully grown, clothed in flannel shirts, and drinking Starbucks. They called themselves “emergent” and…
Read MorePenal Substitution: 2 Years Later and We Still Cant Get No Satisfaction
It was October 7th, 2004 and we were sitting on highly-elevated pews in a London church, waiting to hear Steve Chalke explain and defend his issues with the theory of penal substitution that he outlined in his book “The Lost Message of Jesus” [co-written with Alan Mann]- a book that actually never mentions the term…
Read MoreResource Training
The new flyer for Resource is out. Highly recommended training for those in UK from the people at Church Mission Society. I have enjoyed teaching some sessions at Resource [Yeast of the Kingdom and Missio Dei] and hope to teach next year also [if they will have me back]. There’s also a ‘Taster Day’ in…
Read MoreContribute 4 has blog capabilities
Adobe’s Contribute 4 sounds impressive with the blogging capability . . . but i am leaning towards online solutions like Flock browser. And i still cant beat ecto for blogging control and offline writing. Technorati Tags: blog, web 2.0
Read MoreSometimes I Dress Like a Pagan
Sometimes I dress like a pagan. I don’t wear a pentagram, like this stereotypically GenX pagan from totl I often dress casually, but thats not necessarily pagan. The question of what Jesus would wear has been chewed over in many emerging church circles, but no absolute certainty has been achieved. We do know he was…
Read MoreAnd the Millennia Award goes to . . . Tallskinnykiwi!
And a few others also who won the 2006 Millenia Award for Personal Participatory Media. Heres the list of winners zoecarnate nextreformation tallskinnykiwi jesuscreed lowercasepeople theooze wow . .. I’m lost for words . . . but firstly . . i just want to thank my LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST and I want to…
Read MoreJohn Piper and the Desiring God Conference
John Piper addresses “Emergent Christians” at last weekends Desiring God conference, which I blogged about back in February. Sounds like the conference was a big success and a boon to reformed folk – especially in light of their current trendiness. Piper has a warm tone and fatherly heart for the “emergents” in the audience and…
Read MoreOther Bloggers Taking a break
Quite a number of bloggers either taking a break or coming back refreshed after a vow of blog silence including: RobbyMac Bush League Theologian Purgatorio Theopraxis I feel VERY refreshed after a month away from the keyboard. I was able to think about my dealings with Babylon, the market as God [false god], my dealings…
Read MoreMy History of the Emerging Church. Part One
A little more history of my love-hate relationship with what is now called “Emerging Church”. Put this account with other histories to get a fuller version of what has happened in the last two decades in the church of North America and around the Western world. I should start by saying that what happened in…
Read MoreWaffles for 30
I’m back. After a month of not blogging. I think i got rid of my addiction, for now, and am able to think rationally about blogging and my love-hate relationship with the blogosphere and the forces behind it. I think i have tumbled the babel tower in my own heart and am ready for another…
Read MoreWhere Am I From?
I wish I knew. I have lived in a lot of countries. I currently live in Scotland with my American wife and our 5 kids that were born on 3 continents. I travel a third of my time. I will tell you why i travel so much on another occasion. I was born in New…
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