Tim Keller, New York reformed pastor at Redeemer Pres. and occasional commenter at TallSkinnyKiwi [the latter being a worthier qualification] finds himself in Newsweek. The headline reads “The Smart Shepherd: A New York pastor who says he thinks too much wants to bring his Christian message to the world.” Actually, being smart is mandatory in…
Read MoreBlogs this week
The blog to watch this week is I AM JOSH BROWN as he deals with criticisms of Emergent – thats referring to Emergent Village, not the global emergent church movement. Introduction is here and the first one is: “Emergent is just a bunch of white guys sitting around and talking theology.” It will also be…
Read MoreHim that p***eth against the wall.
Speaking of sermons, heres a video from Trevin Wax of an “independent Baptist, KJV-Only preacher” tackling the passage ‘Him that pisseth against the wall’. Can you watch this without snickering? I challenge you. Related: Offensive Language: I think my mother taught me.
Read MoreLent – First Sunday
I preached at the Stromness Baptist Church this morning on the four passages from the Lectionary. They were Gen 2:15-17, 3:1-7, Mat 4:1-11, Romans 5:12-19 and Psalm 32. One of those passages was the Temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Steve Taylor had a good idea for this, and the other Sundays during Lent. Assignment:…
Read MoreAnglican + Emergent = Anglimergent
Its been a busy season for Anglicans and the emerging church. – Karen Ward re-launches the Anglimergent social network which is like Presbymergent but Anglican. I am number 87. – Ian Mobsby, after releasing his excellent book on whether Anglican Emerging Churches are really Anglican or not, is starting a Euro subset of Anglimergent –…
Read MoreChanging Face of Missions
Brad Sargent talks about the training trail on his new blog and Cynthia talks about the Changing Face of Mission on her new blog.
Read MoreA Sitemap for Google Webmaster Tools
Finally, I did it! What: I added a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools today for my Typepad based blog. I splashed out and bought Rage SiteMap Automator for $30. Its a bit more spendy but its made for Mac, only a week old, works great, and unlike those horrible PC programs for sitemap generation, it…
Read MoreLife Cycle of a Blog Post
Wired points to the life-cycle of a blog post. Very cool! HT: Matthew Labels Technorati Tags: blog
Read MoreHuckabee and Larry the Cucumber
Some election thoughts as Super Tuesday turns into Boring Old Wednesday: – My wife’s absentee vote for California will make all the difference, she says. – Web 2.0 plays a role through Facebook stuff and videos like Yes We Can on YouTube. – Mike Huckabee looks like Kevin Pollack and sounds like Larry the Cucumber.…
Read MoreAsh Wednesday
Its Ash Wednesday today and we are not doing anything special this year. I think the main reason is because many of us fasted right after the Christmas/New Years celebrations – a fast that included missing food, toxin removals through juices, clearing out junk and unwanted clothes and stuff, reflecting on the previous year, and…
Read MorePancake Tuesday
Today is Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday or Fat Tuesday and yes . . . we ate some pancakes today. See what i wrote last year on The Skinny on Fat Tuesday.
Read MoreRichard Abanes defends Rick Warren AND the emerging church
UPDATE: Previous post exceeded 500 comments and closed. Go to Abanes Answers Warren’s Critics II to continue reading. UPDATE: Check out Richard Abanes, kicking butt on a single PP blog post nearing 500 comments, making it the blog post of the year or at least the thread of the year so far. Richard Abanes, dear…
Read MoreNew Monasticism in the news
L A Times on one of the many new monastic communities.(HT: RogerIII) Boston Globe on some others. (HT: EV) Technorati Tags: monastic, new monasticism
Read MoreBoingBoing, Eschatology, and Tattoo Fodder
BoingBoing, one of the worlds biggest and best blogs takes a theological journey into the pre-tribulationary, eschatological, dispensational, diagrammical fantastical charts of Clarence Larkin. They post it under “art”. Does kinda look like cool wallpaper for a blog . . . or a Prison-Break full-body tattoo. I have one of the actual posters but it…
Read MoreWebsites and golf clubs
Tony Whittaker of Internet Evangelism Day has a great parable called A Tale of Two Golf Clubs which explains why you cant drag an old media mind into the new media world without some serious rethinking. They are also offering to help make your church website more effective with some diagnostic tools like this self-assessment…
Read MorePilgrimage and Training Trail Project
We are launching a new project called “Training Trail” that we believe will help enable global, mobile, missional discipleship for the emerging culture. We all hate the word “training trail” and expect something better to take its place but in the meantime, we need $10,000 to get this thing going. We have been kicking it…
Read MoreDutch theologians from an emerging church perspective.
Just got an email from Nico-Dirk of post-gereformeerd.blogspot.com answering a question i put to him when i was in Amsterdam last month. I asked what theologians had influenced him as an emerging church practitioner. His answer:
Read MoreDieter Zander (updated)
UPDATE: A blog has been set up for Dieter. ORIGINAL: Just heard that my friend Dieter Zander had a stroke last night and is in an induced coma to allow healing of the surgery on his blood clot. Prayer vigil at his Bay Marin church tonight. Dieter is an absolute superstar in God’s work and…
Read MoreAuschwitz: Taking our students there.
On the News today and also on TV, a new initiative from the Government to send some pupils from every school in England to the Auschwitz concentration camp. I think its a great idea. We took some of our kids about 5 years ago to Auschwitz. Really horrific and really significant. For them and also…
Read MoreCruelty-Free Chicken Runs
Update: Tesco criticised for £2 chickens and rightly so. Talk at the pub last night revolved around cruelty-free diets and the effect of the recent Chicken Run Series on Channel 4 by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. I really liked what Hugh did and what he was trying to achieve in making his town completely free range. For…
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