Still going through a transition and i dont feel ready to reemerge yet. I am current unblogging. I have just been telling the Google bot not to look at certain parts of my blog that might be sensitive to certain countries and ministries. And I am trying to rehaul my blog and make it match…
Read MoreBack from Morecambe and Cambridge
Back now in Orkney. Had a really good time in Morecambe with Graham and his church. Also near Cambridge where I picked up pottery equipment for our Coop. I took Hannah (9) with me on the trip and we stayed in a youth hostel at High Force, England’s tallest waterfall. My mum has come up…
Read MoreMorecambe this weekend.
This weekend I will be speaking at Stanley Road Baptist in Morcambe, England. Thanks to Graham Doel for the invitation. This weekend retreat is part of a three year focus on mission. Last year they had John and Olive Drane. Next year is Stuart Murray Williams. But this year they have to put up with…
Read MoreFusion: UK students take note
If you are a student in the UK and following Jesus is a priority for you then you really should sign up for Fusion Weekend 2007, November 23-25th. I am one of the speakers, but there are better choices than me. Elaine Storkey, for instance. I don’t have a title for my talk yet. Last…
Read MoreCant tell you, yet
Transition Week for me. – My laptop is in the shop but it will be a clean start when it comes back with a new hard drive. – I am upgrading my responsibilities and getting more organized for 2008. Growing up, maybe. – I am pulling out of something dear to me but have not…
Read MoreMorecambe this weekend.
This weekend I will be speaking at Stanley Road Baptist in Morcambe, England. Thanks to Graham Doel for the invitation. This weekend retreat is part of a three year focus on mission. Last year they had John and Olive Drane. Next year is Stuart Murray Williams. But this year they have to put up with…
Read MoreBlogRush for Increasing Your Traffic
Having been asked to write a white paper on SEO (search engine optimization) for some mission organizations, I have been putting down some thoughts as a continuation of my blog post called 15 Blogging Tips for 2007. In the midst of this process, a new service called BlogRush launched on Sep 14th and has made…
Read MoreFamily Pilgrimage to Papay
Last weekend our family took a ferry out from the island of Westray to the tiny monastic island of Papa Westray. We went through a farm to get to the monastery. This is us, sitting in the Knap of Howar, the oldest standing house in Northern Europe. Its almost 6000 years old. Samuel (bottom right)…
Read MoreI’m Still Alive!
Still here. Still kickin. Just havent blogged much this week. But here is a roundup of stuff thats going on. – The flu went through our house this week and so Debbie, Elizabeth and Abigail were horizontal for three days. I stayed healthy and ended up tending to the sick and the lame. – Debbie…
Read MoreWestray Island this weekend.
Our family are leaving Saturday on a little ferry for Isle of Westray and I will be preaching at Westray Baptist Church on Sunday morning. We may get out to the even smaller and more historically monastic isle of Papa Westray tomorrow for a mini-pilgrimage like we did last year. I doubt if there is…
Read MoreMy Birthday Today
Its today! My birthday. I know you all remembered . . . even though some most of my kids forgot. September 7, in case you want to burn it into your memory bank for next year. I have requested a chocolate fondue for tonight. Thats about all I want this year. A big chocolate fondue…
Read MoreMichael Lindsay and Gandhi in the blogs
Some blog series on politics, power and peace that you should know about. – Rebecca Ford of the Oxford UP blog informs me that Michael Lindsay has started to post on an interesting subject – evangelicals in power, Michael is the author of Faith in the Halls of Power and his blog series might be…
Read MoreAllelon, Oct 15-18, Washington State
I will be speaking at the Allelon event on Missional Orders in October, alongside Alan Roxburgh and Mark Priddy. It will be a small select group of 50 people gathering in Seabeck (60 miles north of Seattle) to discuss the new forms of missional orders, Rule of Life, and how these orders are taking shape…
Read MoreJesus and the Recessive Gene
“Funny how those darned recessive genes just show up every once in a while in the oddest places!” Scott Bessenecker, who took this photo in the Middle East a few weeks ago.
Read MoreDressing Up For Church
“I found myself day-dreaming about [church] services employing the often strange objects to be found in a Salvation Army charity store. Ohhh, the possibilities! Plenty of costumes in which to act out bible stories and shelves filled with glasses and mugs for communion, games for children, Bibles and old books to reference for the teaching.…
Read MoreNew Conspirators in the Emerging Church
Tom and Christine Sine are hosting a conference next year called New Conspirators 08 and they are running a New Conspirator theme on their blog right now. Even my previous blog banner makes an appearance. Technorati Tags: emerging church, sine
Read MoreQuechup Spammed My Email.
Quechup, which I warned about yesterday spammed people on my email list and one went to this typepad address, turning into a blog post. Please delete or ignore the friend request if you get an email from me this morning. This is SPAM! and its ugly. Sorry everyone. I thought I was safe because I…
Read MoreNudes and the long tail
I won’t tell you the name of the nudity website that is sending me so many visitors today (about 80% in the last hour) but my blog post “Christian Nudes“, mentioned on their website back in 2004 came to life again when today, 3 years later, someone posted another message on the bulletin board and…
Read MoreGetting the Bible Wright
Pryomaniacs Frank and Dan are halfway towards a 1000 comment quest with a provocative blog post against emerging church and other movements that threaten the Fundamentalist claim to supreme power and a uniquely correct view of Scripture. Its called . . Emerging Church: bad as Gutless Grace Girliemen? Worse than Wrongheaded Wrightophiles? Sillier than Leaky…
Read MoreQuechup Social Networking Site: Warning
There is a red flag waving in the blogosphere about Quechup, a new social networking site, and I just eliminated my account. The accusation is that Quechua is using an “underhanded” approach to request new members through mining the email accounts of subscribers, resulting in an email frenzy that is causing embarrassment and fear. That…
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