I am at Aberdeen airport – the second of my airport pilgrimage to show off my “Cross About The Strike” tie. My doctor was on the last flight and was asking me about the emerging church and what i knew about it. He had read an article in Christianity Today recently and was surprised to…
Read MoreNet Bible is CopyLeft
NEW: NextBible (beta version) is an online learning environment connected with bible.org. Today I am putting the words of Jesus to be read against a Sigor Ros video and I am using the Word version (free download) of the Most Trustworthy Net Bible. I use the big black Net Bible at home for study (only…
Read MoreBritish Airways: “Cross About The Strike” Tie £40
“Cross About The Strike” Original Tie, £40 [+ postage] is being auctioned on eBay.co.uk. Custom designed for TallSkinnyKiwi by Debbie Jones on an authentic, vintage BA tie. Only one available. Viewing available at these airports on Wednesday 31st January: Kirkwall, Aberdeen, Belfast and London Heathrow. Look for this sharp looking man . .. Technorati Tags:…
Read MoreSchedule: Belfast and London this week
Tue Jan 30- I will be in Inverness and Luton – catching flights – but I could meet at the airport if you want to buy me a coffee. I might stay in Camden Town, London that evening. Wed to Sunday. Belfast and the coast of Northern Ireland with Soliton Network’s Celtic Sessions. Mon –…
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
– Jamie at Emergent Voyageurs weighs in on the homosexuality issue from a personal perspective. – Beer and the Bible is the title of an article on an emerging Baptist community in St Louis that hosts “Theology at the Bottleworks” in a local pub. Interestingly, “Beer and Bible” was the nickname of the Bible study…
Read MoreTowards a Mixed Economy of Old and New Media
Interesting discussion at DAVOS 2007 regarding how MSN and new media [bloggers, etc] can get along or if it is possible to do so. Classic quote: “A blogging entrepreneur drew a useful distinction between old mainstream media (MSM) which had attention deficit disorder and the best bloggers, who were obsessive compulsive. Newspapers started out on…
Read MoreSam’s Birthday
The last of the January birthdays. That makes 3. Samuel is our eldest and he turned 16 today.
Read MorePresbymergent
Cleave has just put up a new website called Presbymergent.org – “the online community for those who live in both the Presbyterian and Emergent/emerging church worlds”. It’s a good site but Cleave says it needs some graphic-lovin’ and its waiting for a PresbyGeek out there who wants to design a custom WordPressbytemplate. Technorati Tags: emergent
Read MoreForgotten Ways and Alan Hirsch’s Online Course
My good friend Alan Hirsch of FORGE has a new book “The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church” and it has just been released. But you knew that already. I am running a little late on this blog post but at the same time, Alan and our DAWN team have a special offer for you…
Read MoreThe Persian Blogestan
UPDATE 27.1.07: Iranian blogs were a topic of interest at Davos07 yesterday. HT: Buzz Machine ORIGINAL POST 26.1.07: Persian bloggers. They are our new neighbors. Maybe its time to meet them. PersianBlog.com is a large portal and a good place to start . . . if you speak Persian and Blogs by Iranians if you…
Read MoreA-Team visit 24 Set
Ok – I’m impressed! The theo-blogging crew of A-Team went to visit the crew of the TV show “24“. Here is Roger Overton hanging with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). I cant really compete with that. Once our Young Leaders (pre-Emergent) team got a tour through the MTV studios in New York and we got to…
Read MoreDavos 2007
The World Economic Forum in Switzerland has opened its doors to bloggers this year – special meetings and opportunities for bloggers. In one of the meetings, Gordon Brown gives a big endorsement to blogs. Check out ForumBlog, Daylife, and the Davos Conversation which seems to have the skinny and links-a-plenty to the various MSN blogs.…
Read MoreElizabeth’s Birthday Today
My tall lanky daughter Elizabeth turns 14 today. Happy birthday LittleBit. Dad will be home in time for the celebrations. You can say happy birthday to her on her bebo where she is known as LittleLiz93. There you go . . are you sufficiently EMBARRASSED now by being on your old dad’s blog???
Read MoreWiki Words
– Wired’s Big Question Wiki needs some people to help fill in the blanks to BIG questions like: Where is the Holy Grail? – SmartBibleWiki.com is under development, courtesy of the omnipresent Dr Andy Jackson of SmartChristian who has the skinny; “SmartBibleWiki.com will be an open-source website dedicated to the interpretation of each book of…
Read MoreAt Big Chill House
Update: Meeting went really well. So glad we chose Big Chill House as the venue for our business meeting. Funky space, nice staff, and a great lunch menu. Food was incredible and cost around £8-10 each main course. And having a free room was a cheap way of running a meeting. The Naxos Nook was…
Read MoreLondon meetings
Sorry I have been so silent. I have been behind on a number of deadlines and didnt feel right about blogging until i had completed some things. Internet at my hostel is down so i am at a crowded internet cafe. i met today at Church Mission Society HQ. Good lunch with Jonny Baker, Gareth…
Read MoreLondon This Week
I am in London from Monday until Thursday. Some meetings to attend – all VERY TOP SECRET as usual. One of them I am organizing for emerging church start-ups that need some encouragement. A group of us from Germany and UK are meeting to help each other out with the administrative side of getting things…
Read MoreScot McKnight’s Five Streams of Emerging Church
Speaking of Christianity Today and emerging church, Scot McKnight has written another superb article on the emerging church scene in North America and UK. Well . . . mainly North America. Its called “Five Streams of the Emerging Church: Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today.” Its one of…
Read MoreWhat did you go out to see?
Pilgrim, pilgrim, where have you been? I’ve been to London to visit the emerging church scene Pilgrim, pilgrim, what did you there? I found a little queen sitting on her chair. from “What did you go out to see?” by Andrew Jones, BC, Jan 2006. For those of you reading my missions article in the…
Read MoreBackYard Missionary Takes a BackSeat
Andrew Hamilton (Hamo), perhaps the best known Aussie Emerging Church blogger, has stopped his blogging efforts after 4 fabulous years as the Backyard Missionary. Hamo and I were in the same youth group when we were teenagers and our journeys are somehow joined. I have been toying with the idea of stopping my blog, especially…
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