June banner is from . . .

Like the banner for June? Its pottery my wife just made and is selling at the Sorting Room. The image above is from two of her bowls.The name of her business is Gone2Pot. I need to put up a website for her pretty soon. Her best selling items are “comfort mugs” which are thicker and…

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A bunch of stuff and links at the end of the week.

Stuff: John Crowder turns up Mike Morrell’s blog and shows that he really does have a brain. A new blog for Aussie Geoff Westlake called WWWestlake. Seth Godin gives good advice on non-profits and philanthropy. I wont even mention the white trash pastor who got arrested for solicitation in a Wal-Mart parking lot . .…

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The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing And Why, by Phyllis Tickle

“While no observer is willing to say emphatically just how many North American Christians are definitely emergent at the moment, it is not unreasonable to assume that by the time the Great Emergence has reached maturity, about 60 percent of practising American Christians will be emergent or some clear variant thereof.” Phyllis Tickle, manuscript for…

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10 Worst Movies About Jesus

The Wittenburg Door lists the 10 worst movies about Jesus. I think Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter takes first prize. HT: Becky Technorati Tags: jesus, movies, wittenburg door

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David Pierce on Tall Skinny Kiwi

David Pierce, director of Steiger International and No Longer Music is my guest today. You can interact with him in the comments section if you want to ask him anything. Great guy. Amazing ministry. From a barge in Amsterdam to the ends of the earth, taking its message of hope to “some of the darkest…

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Carson or Keller at an Emerging Church Festival?

Gospel Coalition conference in Chicago today. Hey, if anyone there chats to D.A. Carson or Tim Keller, please invite them on my behalf to one of the many emerging church festivals this summer in Europe. People of their calibre don’t usually make it to the festivals here, despite thousands of young people who really appreciate…

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Charismania and Emergent Snobbery

Just when the Christian blogosphere was quietening down, just when the EC critics were running out of things to say, just when EC promoters were rehashing and remashing old posts, just when the blog-dust was settling, all of a sudden . . . there came a man named John. Mike Morrell joins the gazillions of…

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Emerging House Church Movement

Update: I just saw an excellent video of Reggie McNeal addressing the Reformed Church of America. He gives a good update on the house church movement. At least watch the first ten minutes to get a global view. Stay longer to hear why it will be really tough to go through this shift. Original: “They’re…

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Campi Roars

Steve Camp is giving the Pyros some competition for cool graphics with a blog post called WAAWAAWAA@RUNTOMOMMY.COM …when Christian bloggers act like cry babies. If you are going to criticize the state of the church, at least do it with pictures. I have never seen Mark Driscoll in a suit before. Technorati Tags: emerging church

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The Sorting Room Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony for The Sorting Room went really well. Councillor James Stockan cut the ribbon and Rev. Fiona Lille gave a blessing and prayed for God’s favour. We had hundreds of helium balloons and hot chai on the Rayburn solid fuel stove that we just installed yesterday (pheeeeew!) Thanks everyone for coming and making…

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Evangelical Manifesto

“Evangelicalism should be distinguished from two opposite tendencies to which Protestantism has been prone: liberal revisionism and conservative fundamentalism.” From An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment, written and published this month. PDF is here. Dan Wallace has the skinny and why he signed it. An Evangelical Response to the Evangelical…

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Dont you guys know your Bible? Bible Apps Quiz

Somebody finally beat me at Bible Quiz. Congrats to Stingfly – I hope you are part of the emerging church. God forbid a fundamentalist knocks me off my perch on Bible Quiz. [hint hint – thats a challenge]

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Opening Tomorrow

Big day is tomorrow. We have been working really hard. Lots of painting and scrubbing. We got the big sign today and put up the small sign yesterday. At 5pm tomorrow Councillor James Stockan will officially open our Cooperative-studio-retail space called The Sorting Room. Very exciting.

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The Emerging Church Gathering in Latin America

“I am having a great time here . . . plus Freddi from Paraquay is here as well.” Trevor McPherson (Vancouver, BC) from Underground Railroad who is in Brazil this weekend for the Tribal Generation event. He is talking about Freddi who was at our Roundtable in Freakstock Festival, Germany in 2006. Thats Freddi on…

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Edinburgh 1910 – 2010

UPDATED and reposted in case you missed it. 2010 marks one hundred years since the International Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, 1910. Needless to say, many of us have been working towards it and this blog post should update you. LATEST NEWS: The lectures from Edinburgh 1910 have been digitized and are now available online. This…

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The Shack

The Shack, by William-P-Young. Its an Amazon best seller and someone in your church has probably already read it. I hardly ever read books that are hugely popular, especially when they are hugely popular among the Christian population. But The Shack caught my interest. A few months ago in California I saw my friend Elbert…

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