TallSkinnyKiwi interviewed on the Something Beautiful Podcast – Did I just refer to myself in the third person??? On the podcast, which is hosted and commented on by some really wonderful people with interesting accents, I talk about my training, early mission experience, fundamentalist background as a street evangelist, the side-benefits of Bible smuggling, tinkering…
Read MoreThe State of the Church Online (survey)
A 7 question survey that will help figure out the state of the church online. Wanna help a brotha? Details below
Read MoreA Christianity Worth Believing, by Doug Pagitt
I just finished Doug Pagitt’s new book, A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope filled, open armed, alive-and-well faith”. Its a really good read and its Doug’s best book by far. Very well written, vulnerable, conversational, theological, playful and intensely personal. It occasionally weaves into Doug’s childhood to dig out laughable moments like a Coen brothers movie.…
Read MoreExploring the Emerging Church Conference Today
Interesting conference on today in Michigan. Exploring the Emerging Church: Theology, Culture, Ritual, and Meaning, hosted by Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. A book will be emerging from this conference and a list of budding chapters can be downloaded here and read. I am guessing the authors will be kicking around the material today. Technorati…
Read MoreiMonk Predicts The Coming Evangelical Crash
Worth a read. The Coming Evangelical Crash is part one in a stream of thoughts from the blogging iMonk. Same of the same stuff I was saying a decade ago and the stuff that has caused us to change our methodology so drastically. Big one for me is sustainability. Evangelical leaders can talk all they…
Read MoreTallSkinnyKiwi is Gender Neutral
. . . according to the geeks at GenderAnalyzer.com. Honestly, I soooooo do NOT know why they rated me so low on the male scale. omg! I am certainly a MAN, yea . . indeed . . . but i have a wife and 4 daughters and I think the way I talk and write…
Read MoreKalejdoskop: July 8-11, 2009 Global Roundtable for Emerging and Underground Ministries
After a lot of discussion, we decided on a name for this years Roundtable for Emerging and Underground Ministries – “Kalejdoskop”, which in English, means Kaleidoscope. Bet you would never guess that in a hundred years. Why a Polish name? Because the event will be in Poland and we have a habit of letting the…
Read MoreEmerging Church Argument 2.0
Why settle for an emerging church argument when you can have an emerging church argument 2.0? Adam Abu-Nab emailed me this morning to throw me a bone. Adam is helping to launch a new 2.0 app called aMap. It’s “designed to promote the art of arguing by mapping out complex arguments in a simple visual…
Read MoreThe Internet: Over One Billion Served
Sounds like McDonalds. The Internet has hit the one billion mark. Biggest player is China. Heres the line up, courtesy of Comscore. HT: thenextweb. Technorati Tags: internet, web 2.0
Read MoreSynchroblog on Australia Day – Jan 26
UPDATE: Start reading the 2009 Aussie Synchroblogs here with Spirit of Australia and then follow the links on that page. ORIGINAL: If you want to be a part of the Australian Synchoblog for Australia Day 2009, then get in touch with Matt Stone. 2008 was a great experiment. The most memorable moment was when Hamo…
Read MoreMoving Feeds from Feedburner to Google
Everyone who has Feedburner looking after their feeds has to move to Google by Feb. 27. I am doing the big move today. Apparently, the scariest thing is watching the subscriber numbers plummet and then rise again. So if that number on the right goes from 3339 to 0, you will know why. Anyone else…
Read MoreOut of Ur is Officially Not Lame
Joe Hernandez of CityTeam emailed me something he read on Christianity Today’s site about their blog Out of Ur which came very close to top in a recent list of top church blogs. Did I really call their early attempt at blogging “lame”? Yes, I did, Their first blog was a clearing house for articles…
Read MoreMissional Church ala 1955
“This is my parish”, said the Reverend Father, his beer half drunk, his cigarette pointing to the bar.” The title under one of the photos says, “THE CHURCH MUST COME TO THE PEOPLE.” IN A SOHO PUBLIC-HOUSE, THE REV. TONY REID TAKES A BEER AND TALKS ABOUT CHRISTIANITY”. The article, which Jonny Baker and I…
Read MoreAtheist Bus Campaign Probably Not a Breach
ASA ruling yesterday, after 326 complaints against the atheistic ads on English buses. HT Cybersoc (by Twitter) “The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has concluded that the “There’s probably no God” bus ad campaign by the British Humanist Association is not in breach of the advertising code. The ASA will therefore not launch an investigation and…
Read MoreCrowded House (the church, not the band)
Last night I was in Sheffield, England. I was lucky enough to have dinner with Steve Timmis and some of the Crowded House people [No connection with the Kiwi band called Crowded House, in case you were wondering. Although I really like them as well]. I had a few hours to spare and I had…
Read MoreStreams, Presences and what to do with icons.
I am in a meeting today in Sheffield with some interesting people: Mark Berry who was just featured on Radio Times, Jonny Baker, Bob and Mary Hopkins. Although we are talking about mission and how to save Europe on a budget [not exactly] the topic moved to blogs. I put in my streams from twitter,…
Read MoreObama and the Internet
Plenty of Barack Obama parties today, even here in London where I am blogging from. And plenty of Obama inauguration blog posts. What sticks out to me today is the place of the internet in that election. Two quotes: “Barack Obama’s election was historic not just politically – his use of the the Internet to…
Read MoreTop Christian Blogs: How the Skinny Have Fallen
Church Relevance have compiled a list of the top 60 Church Blogs. If you followed the Tall Skinny Kiwi blog when it was the number one Christian blog, God bless you. If you havent been on the web for a couple of years, you might be forgiven for thinking that nothing has changed. But you…
Read MoreCompassionART and Mr and Mrs Smith
So we wanted to watch a movie last night and my kids chose “Mr and Mrs Smith” which was coming on TV at 8pm. [Yeah – I was too stingy to rent a video]. When the movie started, it didn’t look anything at all like the movie we were expecting with Brad and Angelina but…
Read MoreWhy I am lending out my EC books?
There’s a story about a cop who was watching a truck driver do a really silly thing. At every traffic light, the truck driver got out and ran around his truck, beating the sides with a stick. Having circled the truck once, he would jump into the truck and drive off. At the next traffic…
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