Interesting article on Global Religion in the Economist this week by John Micklethwait. Its called In God’s Name and it deals with tension in religion and politics around the world. EXCERPT: “Part of that secular fury, especially in Europe, comes from exasperation. After all, it has been a canon of progressive thought since the Enlightenment…
Read More“Evangelical” – What does it mean today
Great discussion today with some heavy hitters on Café Theology. Its called A Symposium: Six Evangelicals Assess Their Movement The emerging church gets a mention by Denny Burk, as does Steve Chalke who continues to be mistakenly connected with the emerging church, despite his protests and the protests of others. Good to hear from John…
Read MoreA New Year and New Season Starts Nov 1
This blog will be under some construction and redecoration today. I am doing something different. I am about to track the Christian year and align with it as much as possible. My preaching in churches will be linked in with the seasons of the Christian calendar and this blog will be a place for me…
Read MoreFacebook and new churches
LifeChurch.tv are attempting to start a church through the Facebook platform, or at least help create new aggregations through leveraging the Facebook API. More about it here from Bobby Gruenewald. As for me, I find Facebook annoying, especially the zillion friend requests I get each day. However, I should really ask: 1. Anyone else doing…
Read MoreRelaunch of Anglican Cell Church UK
Its looks great. Anglican Cell Church UK has totally updated the web site [and blog] and is back in action for popping up small cells and connecting networks all over UK. Richard White has been working on this, along with Phil Potter and others. My handsome face appears in the list of consultants and they…
Read MoreLego Church
Submitted by Cathryn Thomas LEGO CHURCH made by Amy Hughes 1.5 years to build. 75,000 Lego pieces 1,372 Lego congregants 3,976 windows Technorati Tags: church
Read MoreJerry Falwell remembered in the blogosphere
Rev. Jerry Falwell passed away at 73 years old and his death is one of the blogosphere’s hot topics today. I never met him but I heard him speak once at a South Baptist Convention Annual Meeting. He had been hospitalized before for heart congestion problems and it seems he died of heart failure. He…
Read MoreEmergent and Anglican
Ian Mobsby of Moot has been a good friend of mine and he’s one of the guys in UK who always seems to be thinking ahead of the pack. He has good instincts and I like the stuff he comes up with. His dissertation has now become a book called Emerging & Fresh Expressions of…
Read MoreInternet “Smelly Vision” by 2015
News story says Korean tech experts predict computers will transmit scent through the internet by 2015. This will be very good news for the alt. worship communities and cyberchurches. Maybe even bloggers. Expect my recipes to have accompanying smells. I wonder how others will use it? Coffee smells for emerging church conversations? Incense for cyberchurch…
Read MoreAmazing Grace Sunday – Feb 18 (USA)
This Sunday (today) is Amazing Grace Sunday. About 4000 churches [so far] all over USA are singing this song and looking into how they can put a stop to modern day slavery. Erik Lokkesmoe is the Director behind this project and he has been kind enough to keep me updated on its progress all the…
Read MorePastors Tool Box online
New resource out there for pastors. Its called Pastors Toolbox and they must be OK because they refer to my blog. But why am I always boxed up as “emerging church”? Technorati Tags: church, emerging church
Read MoreHouse Churches: 1% to 9% in a decade
When our family worshipped in a house church in 1996, in the living room of our house in San Francisco, we were part of a movement that made up only 1% in the USA. Today, that number is 9%, according to recent research by Barna. Or to say it a different way, in 1996 I…
Read MoreCovenant for the Church of England
Cartoon from Dave Walker. On Dec 12th a “Covenant for the Church of England” was presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was signed by the CEEC President. Bishop Tom Wright is not impressed. He doesn’t think it is really a covenant and quite a number of groups (including Alpha) were not involved. But it…
Read MoreOrcadian Newspaper Today
The visit of the German ‘cult‘ to a number of Orkney’s churches made the front page in the Orcadian paper. It was good to hear other accounts and see unity emerge among Orkney’s various churches and denominations. Technorati Tags: orcadian
Read MoreEuroChurch Conference
Details are online here. Switzerland April 17-19, 2007. I will be there and I think they are going to let me speak on the web/cyberspace/blogging and its relation to the new church planting movements. Subject not confirmed yet but the theme for the conference is . . . Technorati Tags: church, dawn, mission
Read MoreCults: We Gonna Expose Yo Ass!
“These people are grumblers and fault finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.” [Jude 1:16, Net Bible] Its Tuesday and the cult members are heading home to Germany. They tried really hard to hijack the church services this weekend to deliver their BOMBASTIC…
Read MoreEcclesiastic Terrorism
[Video was taken by Brian Standerfer and is posted on his blog as “Schaffranek’d” and on YouTube.] It happened! The church I was preaching at this morning got Schaffraneked. Horst Shaffranek’s German cult that I told you about yesterday, sent followers around the UK to infiltrate churches and create a disturbance in order to deliver…
Read MoreAny Women House Church Planters out there?
A journalist for a well known religious publication wants to know if there are just a few or a whole lot of house church planters who are female. And I already know that MOST of the church planters in China are female. But what about Western countries? And I realize its often a team thang…
Read MoreStrategic Conference at Copenhagen, Denmark
I’ve gone to Copenhagen, land of the Danes who are famous for their humor. Wonderful, wonderful, Copenhagen, friendly old girl of a town, as Danny Kaye once put it so . . . HANS-somely . .. thank you very much. I”ll be here ’til Friday . . try the veal! And why not let good…
Read MoreLeith Anderson in the Search Engines
Mark Driscoll’s latest blog post on how churches should respond to pastoral crises of falling leaders (ie . . Haggard) has made me think about how churches and their web sites should also be geared to BLESS their rising leaders (ie . . . Anderson). Yesterday I did a search for NAE Interim President Leith…
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