7 hour drive today to Edinburgh with our 5 kids in our 4 cylinder Peugeot 806. We will be there for 2 days. We had a great time in Chichester with everyone.
Read MoreChristmas Day
So its Christmas Day, the day we remember the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ. This one is the biggie of the year for us. My wife is making raspberry turnovers and sausage souffle for breakfast as her family has done since she can remember. Last night we did a Polish tradition for Christmas Eve.…
Read MoreMerry Christmas Everyone!!
Thanks for reading my blog and being involved in my journey this year. On behalf of my wife and I, we wish you a great and happy and peaceful and blessed Christmas celebration!!! “God bless us, everyone!” Heres a nice pic of the kids. And thanks for all the Christmas cards. I love them all.…
Read MoreChristianity in Britain
I write this from London on Christmas Eve. The Christmas spirit of Dickens is strong here and there is no shortage of Christmas events. We attended a Christmas Carol service at Trafalgar Square (I would not have chosen ‘Shine Jesus Shine’ to kick off the singing) and we might attend St Paul’s Cathedral this evening.…
Read MoreAmericans in London for Christmas
Things are heating up here in London. More people are flying in and driving up for our Christmas gathering. Apart from the Carter family from Chichester and the Mark and Hannah Stoney family, originally from Sheffield, everyone else here is American. Most of my family, as you know, are Americans. Teresa Kwon arrived from Kansas…
Read MorePostcards
End of the year is upon us and Steve Taylor way down in Godzone country of New Zealand is requesting emerging church postcards for 2007. This will be the third year of collecting images, events and ‘postcards’ from around the world of what has been happening in our communities. HT: Paul Roberts and an email…
Read MoreStoke on Trent today
Travelled down yesterday with 8 in the little van, including Jessica Stricker from Austin Texas. We are in Stoke-on-Trent today and will be in London tomorrow.
Read MoreDarrin Patrick and Journey
Remember that Baptist church called Journey that i blogged about in a post entitled “We Baptists Do Not Drink . . . (in front of each other)”? Well, they just lost their funding and I think their stance on taking communion seriously got them in trouble. It is also connected with their relationship with Acts…
Read MoreOur Christmas Goose
We bought a goose for Christmas from a farmer on one of the islands. A LIVE one, that is. The farmer told us we wouldn’t need to clip her wings because she never flew. We named her “Christmas Dinner” and she lived outside with our chickens. Unfortunately, she refused to eat the weight-enhancing pellets i…
Read MoreSam Jones: He’s Big in Orkney
Our 16 year old son Sam gave a “show-stopping” performance in last weeks production of ‘Chicago’, here in our town of Stromness, Orkney. “Added comedy came in the form of young Sam Jones as top reporter ‘Mary Sunshine’, whose falsetto singing of ‘There’s a Little Bit of Good in Everyone’ brought a broad smile to…
Read MoreFirst Amish Emerging Church
Not really . . but worth a read.
Read MoreColorado shootings – more details.
Apparently, the gunman at both Colorado shootings, Matthew Murray, was once enrolled in a DTS at YWAM but was let go for “health” reasons. ChristianPost has the skinny and Benediction is looking at it also.
Read MoreNew Baptist Covenant, Atlanta
There is talk of 20,000 people coming to the New Baptist Covenant celebration [see BLOG] next January but i don’t know if that is hopeful dreaming or Baptist big talk. It has been suspected of having a strong political agenda but there are some fine upstanding Baptist groups who are supporting it for other reasons.…
Read MoreDanger and The Emerging Church
Excuse the title. I just wanted to attract the attention of EC critics and wish them a very happy Christmas! Hey we LOVE you people and we thank you for proof-reading everything we write without compensation. God bless you all! Congratulations, in particular, to Roger Oakland for making number one in a YouTube search for…
Read MoreMore Emerging Philanthropy
I have been amazed to see the changes in philanthropy over the past year due to emergent thinking and web 2.0 technology. Some of this was highlighted yesterday in the Financial Times in an article entitled Charity No Longer Belongs at Home. Websites mentioned are Kiva.org (small loans for third world entrepreneurs) and Innocentive.com (matching…
Read MoreBaptist Top 1000 and Christian Top 1000
I am curious about the discrepancy between Baptist Top 1000 and Christian Top 1000. Can anyone tell me why the uber-cheesy yet HUGELY SUCCESSFUL Jerry’s Haven and Tell, the leading blog for both sites ever since i saw them, got 80,000 hits yesterday on the Baptist Top 1000 but only 10,000 hits for the Christian…
Read MoreYWAM Shooting
Absolutely awful to hear of the shooting at the YWAM base in Denver. 9News says two dead (pictured), one critical, another inured and the 80 other missionaries moved to Golden for the time being. Youth With a Mission is a great mission organization and I have had the priviledge of teaching on many of their…
Read MoreOur New Media Book Wins a Prize!
First of all, I am now allowed to tell you that our new media book won a coveted award a few days ago from the Society for New Communications Research. My chapter is on the dark side of blogging, a haunting confessional piece called “The Ugly Blogger”. The other chapters, although not nearly as metaphysically…
Read MoreMitt Romney on Faith in America
American Gov. Mitt Romney tops the list of the most search tags today in the blogosphere, all because of his speech “Faith in America” Why is it I ask you that politicians get mega blog attention when they speak about religion and religious leaders get mega blog attention when they speak about politics? Technorati Tags:…
Read MoreKids in Church
I never blog the chain emails I get but this one has some merit so I will post it. Thanks Rebecca Pipik from Germany. I also post it for Mrs May Stockan, the dear lady who lives in my town, has just got a computer with broadband, and what she is most excited about is…
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