Emerging Church Google Search

C. Wess Daniels from Gathering in Light has built a customized emerging church search engine using Google’s new co-op feature. Should be a helpful tool and i am quite willing to be ‘co-opted’ into using it . . . uh hm . .. As i have said before, in a world where documents number in…

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George Barna on God Crazy People

“It’s not about doing church. It’s about Being Church.” Good words from George Barna at Revolution Conference about the 20+ million believers on the fringe, and the multiple revolutions going on. And over here are 9 reasons why George decided to become one of them. [welcome to the club, George] Related: George Barna’s Revolution [book…

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Solomons Porch in the news

“Minneapolis church at the forefront of a cutting-edge religious movement”. Doug Pagitt and Solomons Porch get some attention from the Minnesota Public Radio. The article focuses on politics but I know the church is concerned with much more than that. Audio.

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Bloglings, meet your Maker

I liked the title of this blog post about Tim Berners Lee so much i just had to say it out loud and repost the picture of Sir Tim. i also just found Tim’s book for £2 and ordered it. Thanks to Gareth of View From The Potting Shed. Technorati Tags: blog, web 2.0

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A Look Back at Wolfgang Simson’s 15 Theses

Wolfgang Simson is releasing a new book on November 10 that I think will shake up the church in many areas. I have read the manuscript and I think it is the most substantial, remarkable, prophetic, stirring, upsetting, revolutionary book I have read all year, or, in fact, for a long time. I am looking…

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Today is the day to be a JONES

The worlds largest gathering of Joneses happens today in Cardiff, Wales. So if you are a Jones living within a hundred miles of Cardiff – go and help create the Guinness World Record. HT: Dana Ames The rest of us Joneses scattered around the world, those poor sods who’s great grandparents left the green green…

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Revolution Conference

The Off the Map Revolution Conference starts today. Brian McLaren and George Barna to headline. There should be a good team of bloggers there (the conference blog has a list) but the blogger with the skinny is probably going to be Jason Clark. But Cleave and Blind Beggar may give him a run for his…

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a little renovation and i might need your help.

I am reversing my domain mapping and so a few things may not work here until tomorrow. tallskinnykiwi.com will point to tallskinnykiwi,typepad.com very soon. some links will not work and a few recent images. i will fix it soon when i get time. In the near future, tallskinnykiwi.com will be a place marker for a…

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In Memory of Jim Montgomery

Jim Montgomery passed away a few days ago. I was told of his struggle with cancer quite a while ago but his family did not want a lot of publicity. He was one of America’s greatest missionaries of last century, a man went through some paradigm shifts in the Philippines and, like others before him…

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brain(spirit)storm: top secret

Top Secret: My wife Debbie, as you know, has spent the last week n Austin at a top secret gatheriing of missional-prophetic artists and last-days clowns. Something to do with the Mother of All Gatherings that they are planning in the near future. Cant tell you anything yet. If i tell you, they will have…

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