Emergent Church India

Jan 13-18 – “The International Symposium on Dalit Theology in the 21st Century sets out to initiate a collaborative discourse among younger theologians committed to Dalit emancipation in the Indian church and society at large. It provides a platform for emerging voices and a showcase for the resources of Dalit theology as a theology of…

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Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)

The world’s most famous Kiwi died and made Number 1 Google News. NZ Herald reports that “New Zealand climber Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, has died at the age of 88… The cause of Sir Edmund’s death was not announced, but he had been ill for some time and New…

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Amsterdam next Wedneday

I will be in Amsterdam next Wednesday (16th) for some mission meetings and might be available to chat in the evening. Send me an email if you are involved in starting up a new expression of church in the Netherlands and we might be able to hook up.

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Becky Garrison, Rising From The Ashes (book)

I just finished Becky Garrison’s new book, Rising From the Ashes: Rethinking Church. Its a delightful romp through Becky’s interaction with about 30 worship leaders, most of whom are deeply embedded in the mainline church scene in UK, USA and Australia, and most of whom are my friends. The back cover says “While UK worship…

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Rob Frost Memorial: Jan 12th

Rob Frost, well known Christian leader in UK, passed away from cancer a few months ago. I was invited to attend his memorial service on Jan 12th but am not able to come. I fly into London the day after and will just miss it. I do want to say, however, what a lasting impression…

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World Youth Day

Curious. Anyone joining the 300,000+ young people on pilgrimage to Sydney for World Youth Day? Or what about Dive Deeper, the Baptist Youth World Conference in Leipzig, Germany? Technorati Tags: world youth day

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Sinners in the Hands of the Emergent Church

I simply just HAD to use that title for this post – he he he – I took it from an excellent PDF by Bill Hernard, offered up with permission by Ed Stetzer. Its called “Sinners in the Hand of the Emergent Church: Jonathan Edwards Join the Conversation.” [PDF], presented at the Academy for Evangelism…

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Tim Challies Appearance

As I promised yesterday, the world famous, credentially challenged [not an insult . . . honestly!] theoblogian Tim Challies lands here on TSK as part of his blog tour for his new book, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment (forward by John Macarthur) TSK: Why all this controversy about having only trained, credentialed professions writing books…

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Stuff

I am back today to blogging after a break. Consider me online. Heres what’s going on with me. Coming out of the Christmas/New Years Tunnel and emerging into the work rhythm of 2008. Debbie and I are doing a 3-4 day anti-toxin fast using a formula with maple syrup, cayenne pepper and lemon. That will…

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John O’Donohue 1954-2008

I met John O’Donohue only last year but he made a big impact on me. A funny, deep thinking, profound man who never wasted words but often channeled them into searching poetry like Beannacht (“Blessing”) that I published on this blog (with permission) and used as a prayer in a number of conferences last year.…

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Tim Challies : Here on TallSkinnyKiwi tomorrow.

UPDATE: Tim Challies appeared here. ORIGINAL: Go to Google and type in “world’s most famous christian blogger” and you will be looking at the blog of Tim Challies. Tim will be here on my blog tomorrow (Tuesday) to talk about his new book The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment, to answer some of my thoughtful penetrating…

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Chuck Smith Snr on Emerging Church, Again

I just heard Chuck Smith Snr’s New Years Eve speech where he uses the emerging church as an example of last days apostasy. Chuck’s major misfire here is probably another good reason to abandon the label.I don’t have time to go through it point by point but can I just say in a general sense…

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Upgrading

I just upgraded the computers to OS 10.5 – Leopard. Feels REALLY good. Like getting born again. The Time Machine works great for backup but i had to reformat the external disk. Good way to start the year.

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Happy New Year!

We are back from our travels and here in Scotland to see the New Year in. We had a pretty quiet night last night and then went out on the streets at midnight to join the revelers.

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