I told you about our goose called “Christmas Dinner” that ran away just a week before her judgement day. Well, she got DISCOVERED by the media. Newspaper clipping from Orkney Today.
Read MoreEdinburgh to Build a Bear
I am in Edinburgh this weekend and am traveling with my two youngest daughters. Tamara turns 6 on Saturday and we will visit the Build-a-Bear Shop to adopt one as her major birthday present. Done this before with Hannah. I’m a PRO!
Read MoreWhy They Don’t Say Emergent
“Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be”. Absolutely hilarious! I only read the sampler PDF, cheap and stingy as I am, but what I read was really funny and actually quite clever. Heres a couple of guys practicing, as far as I can see, emerging-missional ministry in a fabulously Reformed way and…
Read MoreEmerging Downunder
A book gets released next month in Melbourne by Brent Lyons Lee and Ray Simpson who is also one of my co-speakers at the Grassroots Festival. Looks like a wicked cool book. HT: Matt Stone who gives the blurb for the book: “Emerging Downunder: Creating Celtic New Monastic Villages of God” taps into the current…
Read MoreBrian McLaren Responds to Everything Must Change Concerns
Heres a little email chat I had with Brian McLaren recently. He agreed to let me post it on my blog. I reviewed Brian’s book “Everything Must Change” but my mixed review was a little harsh and I had a few questions unanswered. I thought it would be worthwhile to post the conversation here in…
Read MoreHappy Easter from the Joneses
Samuel is missing from this picture, taken a few minutes ago on photobooth, but the rest of us are all there.
Read MoreEaster Sunday
Easter Sunday in Orkney. Its snowing outside and quite cold. Nice to be back with my family after 10 days on the road in the most harshest, heathen lands you could imagine. And speaking of all things heathen and pagan, we decided to do away with the easter eggs this morning and instead we hid…
Read MoreGood Friday
I had the privilege of spending Good Friday morning in London Gatwick airport so I went to their ecumenical Good Friday church service, led by volunteers from the Salvation Army, Anglican and Catholic churches, all at the same time. Good teamwork! Hope you have a good Good Friday.
Read MoreThe Great Mergence (updated with more)
Emergent AGmergent Convergent Submergent Baptimergent Anglimergent Luthermergent Reformergent Methomergent Presbymergent Cathlimergent? Fundamergent? Neveremergent? Shuttheheckupaboutemergent? Update: Apologies to Quakermergent for missing you. And Nazmergent Technorati Tags: emergent
Read MoreTres Amigos
Leaving Austin, Texas in a few hours, and heading home to UK. I was able to teach the natives how to look Texan and still maintain their coolness. They will be forever grateful. Actually, none of us are really Texan. Thats me on the right. The tough looking one. I am not really Texan but…
Read MoreOnce
I watched the movie “Once” with Derek and Amy last night. Loved the soundtrack. I really loved this song “Falling Slowly” that I heard on TV last week but didnt know where it came from. We all lived in Prague together so it was great to watch the Czech element. We even recognized the beer…
Read MorePerspective from Steve Hawthorne
I met with Steve Hawthorne to chat about my chapter in the next version of the world famous Perspectives course (if they give it the green light) We talked a lot about Steve’s prayerwalking experiences in the 80’s and his concept of praying on location with information for, as he coined it, “on-site with insight”.…
Read MoreFran Mickelborough, the world’s greatest bouncer.
I am hanging out with Fran Mickelborough, the world’s greatest bouncer. Check out his most famous bounce on Youtube and keep watching for the slow motion bounce. Fran’s wife, Jen, (formerly Jen Andrew – I was at their wedding in Sheffield, England a few years back) has not seen the video yet due to the…
Read MoreDerek’s birthday
I arrived in Austin for Derek Chapman’s birthday. He turned 40. A lot of the artists who were hanging out here as part of the Mangola event had already flown home but there were enough of us here to have a great evening. It was too windy in the morning for the hot air balloon…
Read MoreGroomed by Angels
Life is rough. And then a fresh powder on the slopes makes all the difference. In Vail, Colorado, I stayed in a wood cabin with lots of cool people. Outside spa surrounded by snow. Valley vistas. Great food. It was a mini-vacation and I feel great. Even after a hard days skiing. I didn’t blog…
Read MoreReading . . .
Hopping on a plane from London to Dallas. What am i reading? 1. Draft copy of We Think by Charles Leadbeater (PDF) I tried to buy it but couldnt find a paper copy. 2. Surprised by Hope by Tom Wright which I have already mostly read once and am breezing through it again. I think…
Read MoreCharles Colson Talks About The Faith
Chuck Colson, as a part of his blog tour for his new book "The Faith", honors my humble little blog today. TSK: Congratulations on your ambitious yet comprehensive book. Well done!!!!! I know its risky but I admire your efforts to join with the other streams of the holy apostolic catholic church in gaining a…
Read MoreThe week ahead
This coming week’s highlights, so that you can shift everything in your life to coincide seamlessly with my blog. [AS IF . . . ] Today, Debbie comes back after 3 days at the National Scottish Pottery bash in Pitlochry. Tuesday I go to London, again, and meet with Shannon Hopkins. Charles Colson turns up…
Read MoreA moment from the Small Missional Communities Conference
Jim Barker holds the wool for Kiwi knitter Becky Kiddle while Jonny Serton takes off his glasses, probably to contemplate on whether he would be holding wool if he was sitting next to Becky or not. That blow-up boat lost some of its buoyancy over the 3 days in which it sat unpretentiously in the…
Read MoreCracking Installation at Tate Modern
I had an hour to spare in London so I completed my usual pilgrimage to the Tate Modern. Doris Salcedo’s ‘Shibboleth’ in the huge Turbine Hall looks at first like an empty room in between installations. And then you notice the crack in the floor and you are drawn into it . I came in…
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