‘Who is God?’ was one of the top three sentences googled in 2007. says Paul Watson on his new website called Reaching the Online Generation, an initiative of City Team Ministries. My friend Joe Hernandez (formerly NAMB) is with City Team and we will be exploring ways to work together this year. What other good…
Read MoreBlogging for $$$$$$ (can you count to 6 figures?)
Today my Aussie mate Darren Rowse from Problogger spills the beans on how he made six figures a year when he started blogging and how you can make some $$$$$$ or some ££££££ out of your blog. Its a free video interview hosted by Blog Squad. Darren will promote his new book Problogger: Secrets for…
Read MoreLondon: Some Photos
I love London. We used to live there but the rent was too expensive. But I really enjoy visiting. Heres a few shots from last week. You might like to read what happened when i tried to lose my religion in London. Technorati Tags: london
Read MoreRamayana at British Library
I spent a whole morning at the British Library exhibition called Mewar Ramayana: Love and Valor in India’s Great Epic. The display included 400 paintings, produced by Hindu and Muslim artists between 1649 and 1653, that tell the story of Rama and Sita, a story that forms the basic mythology behind the Hindu vedas and…
Read MoreGAFCON: Not a Schism but . . .
Not a schism but there might be a “structure within a structure” says Peter Jensen at GAFCON, a meeting going on in Jerusalem with conservative Anglican bishops. Pete Father Jake has the latest and you can find video here. Check out Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali on Muslim relations. Technorati Tags: gafcon
Read MoreJeff Fountain at the Cell Church Euro Symposium
I popped over to London for the European Cell Church Symposium which was conveniently only 30 minutes from Luton airport. Highlight for me was hearing Jeff Fountain talk about Europe – its past and future connected to Asia. Jeff is a fellow kiwi (yeah . . . salt of the earth!) and currently heads up…
Read MoreAmsterdam: Meeting Phil Graf, Carl Raschke and Hugh Halter
Here are some more details on my strategic meeting with some fellow conspirators in Amsterdam a few days ago. Let me introduce them to you. Phil Graf (left) is the missional training for a really stiff-upper-lip mission organization (just kidding) called Christian Associates. He also knows his beers pretty well and enjoys the Trappist ales…
Read MoreMissional Synchroblog: The Skinny on Missional
Missional. I lost my job because of “missional”. I will tell you how in a second but, first thing, before i start whining over losing my job at the Baptist Convention of Texas, welcome to the missional synchroblog, organized by Rick at Blind Beggar. My entry is one of the latest (stuck in Aberdeen due…
Read MoreNorway: The best place to be for the summer solstice
We are in Kristiansand, Norway and it didnt get dark until after 11am on the longest day of the year. This photo of me [damn i’m good looking!!!] was taken after 10pm outside a great place for pizza. Nice place to be for the summer solstice. Whole day in a really intensive missions meeting with…
Read MorePete Greig on prayer
“So let’s recognize these ‘signs of the times’ – from Lakeland, Florida to South West China – and let’s respond with an explosion of new prayer rooms, prayer vigils, nights of prayer and special prayer meetings. Let’s get ready for the supernatural answers to prayer which surely await us ‘if’ (and only ‘if’) we will…
Read MoreLondon – Museum, Library, Borough Market and of course the Tate Modern
I am giving myself the morning off. I am in London, in between my Netherlands and Norway meetings and I am off to educate my mind and sharpen my artistic appreciation. Ashlee House, my favourite hostel, is kicking me out because they are full up so I will stay at the Clink hostel around the…
Read More1024 Window
I am working on a small presentation for tonight for a project I am calling the 1024 window. A billion people are online and they are viewing the world and finding answers through a screen that is most likely 1024 pixels across and 768 pixels high. The most popular display resolution in the world is…
Read MoreAmsterdam: First Strategic Meeting
My first meeting in Amsterdam was very strategic. I met with Phil Graf, missional coach with CA, and we rode some wobbly old bikes down to a cool pub to watch Amsterdam beat Romania 2-0. We drank Grolsh out the front and yelled at the large screen with the Dutch. When we scored, everyone stood…
Read MoreThis week: Amsterdam, London, Norway
This week my travels take me to Amsterdam, London (Cell UK European Symposium) and Norway (Dawn Europe meeting in Kristiansund). I am not doing any big public meetings but you can read what happened when i went to Amsterdam earlier this year and the emerging church folk came out of their holes. I see that…
Read MoreDoYouDiggIt Dug My Diggins and I can Dig that
“Naturally not all of us are as religiously inclined as Andrew is, but even those who waiver in faith, or stand strong yet are in need of a higher level of understanding, have something of value to learn from Andrew. Andrew presents emerging religion and related issues, but is not preachy or overbearing in any…
Read MoreFour Steams: Emerging, Missional, Mosaic, Monastic.
Tom Sine has an excellent article online called Joining the Anabaptist Conspirators which draws from his book. He lists 4 kinds of activists in this movement that is redefining Christianity.: Emerging, Missional, Mosaic and Monastic. I really like this! Where do we fit? I see all 4 streams in what we are doing. Sorry if…
Read MoreRefreshed after a blog-free weekend and off again on travels.
Ahhh . . life without blog. We all need it every once in a while. I am pleased to say I didn’t blog all weekend and kept away from my computer almost entirely. I did, on the other hand, catch up on some reading. Books included Intuitive Leadership by Tim Keel (highly recommended, despite a…
Read MoreGaining weight.
I am trying to gain some weight this year and am drinking pure malt in place of coffee and tea. I stumbled on this 1934 ad for Kelp-a-Malt recently.
Read MoreEntertainment theology and Post-Christian Spirituality and stuff.
John Morehead interviews Barry Taylor on entertainment theology and pop culture and his new book. Barry is a friend from way back and an amazing guy. I also noticed that John Morehead will be teaching at the Post-Christiandom Spiritualities at Trinity University. My mate Steve Hollinghurst is one of the moderators. Dr James Beverley will…
Read MoreEmerging/Emergent vs Radical/Reformed – who will get us out of this mess?
“In contrast to the solution proposed by Wells, the emerging/missional/neo-monastic churches (the pieces that I applaud) seek to recover community, wholistic gospel, embodied incarnational presence in the world, corporate spiritual formation and the sense of cosmic Mission.” David Fitch puts his money on the E’s in response to David Well’s book ‘The Courage to Be…
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