Rowland Whitehead is only here for a day but its an enjoyable time together. Rowland was part of the UK house church movement in the 1960’s and is now encouraging new things in Barbados. We have been chatting about the history of the Jesus movement and the similarities with the current emerging church movement. I…
Read MoreAbigail’s birthday
Yesterday was my daughter Abigail’s birthday. She turned 12 and Dad was there. Which is a change because i have missed the last 3 birthdays since they always fall on Greenbelt Festival time. But I left Greenbelt a day early to get back home. I made a lasagna – her favourite food and the bakery…
Read MorePub Crawl Anyone?
Shannon Hopkins is organizing another pub crawl around London this Saturday to distribute The Truth Isn’t Sexy beer mats. All for the cause of stopping human trafficking. Get involved here.
Read MoreEcumenicism, Attack Dogs and Curious Cats
This morning I read David Aikman’s interesting article on Christianity Today called Attack Dogs of Christendom. Of course the emerging church movement is quite blatantly on the firing line as you well know. Pastor Ken Silva gets a mention from David as the man “leading the charge against alleged ecumenicists”, which might actually be true…
Read MoreIssac Everett – Transmission
Coffee this morning with New York’s Issac Everett who is getting interviewed by numerous radio stations. Issac’s church in NY is called Transmission. His CD is being talked about a bit here and you can find it on Proost. Technorati Tags: puppy
Read MoreBloggers, let us link one another.
Hey, all you bloggers enjoying fellowship under the WIFI cloud at Greenbelt’s Think Tank. I just want you to know that I will not be hanging with you this year since i am speaking on missions instead of new media but please know that I link you very much. I LINK you all. I really…
Read MoreProost Relaunch Today
Fantastic emerging church resource website called Proost. Its been giving some of the very best digital and paper resources for ten years. The new site has a subscription system and regular resources available to you. Check out the animations and movies and the images like this one . . . Want to give feedback on…
Read MoreThe Skinny on Greenbelt 2007
I am here! At Greenbelt Festival. Along with about 20,000 people. My tent is set up and sleeping bag rolled out. The weather is gloriously sunny and kind which is a problem because I didn’t bring my hat or my sunglasses. The last 3 years have been rainy and cold so all my Greenbelt memories…
Read MoreNexus, Glasgow
I am planning to be at the brand new Nexus conference in Glasgow this Thursday, 23rd. The Church Without Walls day seems good and it will be good to see Peter Nielsen again. I was invited to a lunch on the emerging church on Friday with a lecture from John Drane [sorry John – hope…
Read MoreMy Talk at Greenbelt Festival this Saturday
This weekend I will be speaking at Greenbelt Festival on “Set Free to Be The Church”. Saturday from 7pm at the CMS tent. Come along and fill up the empty seats so i don’t DIE a humiliating death when nobody turns up at my session. I will try to tackle the new forms of church/community…
Read MoreFacebook and new churches
LifeChurch.tv are attempting to start a church through the Facebook platform, or at least help create new aggregations through leveraging the Facebook API. More about it here from Bobby Gruenewald. As for me, I find Facebook annoying, especially the zillion friend requests I get each day. However, I should really ask: 1. Anyone else doing…
Read MoreThe Gospel According to Czechs
More emerging church people in the newspapers. This time a Bible translator and church planter. Listen to how this newspaper describes the birth of their first community . . . “Soon enough, a group of bohemians and artists was meeting at Katka’s studio, rapidly converting to a Christianity that lacked denomination or doctrine — an…
Read MoreEmerging Church Front Page News in Austin
Emerging churches made the front page in last Sunday’s Austin Statesman in an article entitled “Austin’s ’emergent’ Christians finding a new path”. Its a good article and totally worth the read. Unfortunately, there are some key people from the 90’s that did not get mentioned in the article (Drew, Brian and Whitney, Derek and Amy,…
Read MoreEmerging Church Posters: A Gracious Response
I told you about the Pyromaniac Posters taking a shot at the emerging church. And the response from people like Nick and Josh. But since then, and while i have been on the road, there has been a lot of talk about it, even at Christianity Today, and some emerging church people have responded in…
Read MoreReflections on my blog fast
Blog-Fast: As you know, I haven’t blogged for 2 weeks and month before that was scarce. It was not really a planned blog-fast but rather an attempt to focus on my family needs while traveling and get stuck into some really important events that we were at in France, Poland and Germany. Losses: I have…
Read MoreTwenty Blogs for Christian Leaders
Cynthia at the Digital Sanctuary recommends 20 blogs for Christian leaders, one of them being this one. Much thanks for the recommendation – nice way to be welcomed home after 5 weeks on the road.
Read MoreArrived Home
Just arrived back in Scotland. The last week or so has been busy and non-internet time but now i have wifi again and will be getting down to answering your emails and blogging again. It was a great trip. Exhausting at times, but worth it all. Thanks for your prayers for safety and provision.
Read MoreLeaving for South France
France. Packing up. This is our Tipi and car.
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