“The vision I have for ProBlogger.com is for it to be a private forum where bloggers can come to collaborate, network and learn together about how to improve their blogs.” Darren Rowse My friend Darren of Problogger is kicking off a community dimension of his great blog. Join today to become a founding member and…
Read MoreTallskinnykiwi on Problogger and why the Reformed bloggers are beating the Emerging Bloggers
My humble little blog gets a mention and a link today in Darren’s Problogger blog [one is the biggest blogs in the world] as “the first blog that I had ever read”. Thanks! Darren’s post is about the place of links in today’s blogging world. He ends with 2 tips from Matt Cutts for attracting…
Read MoreThe Nines Event for International Viewers
[Screen removed] The Nines is an online event that happens today, which, in case you didn’t realize, is 09/09/09. Leadership Network and Catalyst are behind this FREE event. They have selected a large number of well known speakers and leaders from churches around USA. “THE NINES is a free one-day event that will take place…
Read MoreThe 5 Blogs I Visited Most During My Blog Fast
During my blog fast of almost two months, these were the 5 Christian blogs I visited the most. Highly recommended!!!!! 1. Christianity Today LiveBlog – a gutsy, up-to-date, wide sweeping blog to keep you updated with what’s going on in Christendom. 2. Internet monk, the blog of Michael Spencer is superb and worth following. 3.…
Read MoreThe Virtual Church: Keeping it Real
Today is Mass Blogging Day which has nothing at all to do with a virtual Roman Catholic eucharist but rather is about a number of bloggers writing today about the Web, and in particular its relation to church and mission. Many of us are meeting in LA in September at the Christian Web Conference. Actually,…
Read MoreTallSkinnyKiwi BLOGIVERSARY, and I am taking a break.
Tallskinnykiwi is 8 Years old today. Well, it was actually June 3, 2001 when I shifted from Andrews Tea Salon (1997) to Tallskinnykiwi, but whose counting? Thanks to everyone who has been receiving my feeds and popping over occasionally to this blog to see what’s going on. Normally I do something special on these blogiversarys,…
Read MoreColdPlay – Left Right Left Right Left
Coldplay’s new album is a free download. Lots of great songs, most of them you would have heard before, but this time recorded live from their concerts. The crowd participation makes Left Right Left Right Left a charming and endearing album and a great introduction to one of Brittain’s best bands ever. I just managed…
Read MoreChristianity’s Dangerous Idea, by Alister McGrath
I am mostly finished with Christianity’s Dangerous Idea by Alister McGrath, but not done yet. Its an enjoyable read about Protestantism – its origins and distinctives, in particular the dangerous idea that anyone can read and understand the Bible for themselves. Yesterday I was reading it in a park in France when some guys invited…
Read MoreIs the Virtual Church a REAL Church?
Douglas Estes, one of the participants of yesterday’s Cyberchurch Symposium, and who managed to get lost in London twice during our walk [must be a curious fellow] is releasing a book on the Cyberchurch in a few months. He interviewed me for the book and a few questions I just dug up from an old…
Read MoreThe Tallskinnykiwi Twitter Flock on Twittersheep
Twittersheep tells me about my Twitter flock. What about you. Technorati Tags: microblogging, twitter
Read More150 Emerging Church Books
QUESTION: What have I done with the 150 emerging church books that used to sit on my bookshelf? ANSWER: I am setting them free to be read by my blog readers and Suddenly Seminary students. Let me tell you why and how. WHY? Heres the deal. In a month or so, our family gets back…
Read MoreTop 3 Books of 2008
Here are my top 3 books from 2008. I have read them all twice. 1. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N.T. Wright. I had a gut feeling it would be the best book of the and guess what? . . I was right as usual. Even…
Read MoreReforming or Conforming? Chapter 7
Church and Community or Community and Church? by Ronald Gleason From the book Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church This chapter by Ronald Gleason and Phil Johnson’s chapter, were the best ones in the book for me so I am responding to them before the others, in case I dont get to…
Read MoreReforming or Conforming? Chapter 1
Chapter 1 – The Doctrine of Scripture: Only a Human Problem, by Paul Wells. From the book Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church Paul Wells discusses the divine-human relationship to Scripture and offers four models – witness, accommodation, the analogy between Christ and the Bible [incarnational] and the servant form of Scripture.…
Read MoreReforming or Conforming? Introduction
Introduction by Gary L.W. Johnson. From the book Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church Bonus: MP3 with Gary Johnson in which Gary talks about the book and what lies behind it and the emerging church movement that he calls “a radical reversal of the reformation”. Gary Johnson kicks this excellent book off…
Read MoreNew York Times: They LOVE Me there!
Talk about David and the Web Goliaths. Look at me on the New York Times! When I first discovered the internet in the mid 90’s, the New York Times was my website of choice. Reading it for free, from my little cyber cafe in San Francisco, was an absolute blast. When I went on the…
Read MoreFemale Christian Bloggers
I just had a peek at the top ten UK Christian female bloggers in the previous post and noticed a few things: – half of these blogs are PINK! – most of them deal with theology – most are creative in the comments section – one uses French language and a few of them have…
Read MoreMega-Churches in Cyberspace?
Wanna help? I am writing an article on missions and post-modernities, in particular the idea of transcoding mission in a world of new media communications. It will be published [unless they think it unworthy] close to the Edinburgh 2010 events. It would be a help to me if you could read an old blog post…
Read MoreCall and Response movie: Going Viral!
The film I told you about – Call and Response – has gone quite viral and might be an award winner. CNN are covering it. We are requesting our local theater show it as soon as they can. I just forwarded an email flyer to some of my friends who might not have seen it…
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