Mega-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…

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Love Your Uni : Virtual University

On Saturday morning at 11:30 I am speaking in Oxford at the Fusion Weekend event. My talk is called “Love Your Uni: Virtual University Part 1” and I was there last year also. Fusion is an exciting ministry in the universities of UK. Their vision for 2008 is to start another 1000 student cells and…

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Happy Hour: Virtual Monastery, House Churches, Emerging Church UK and USA, and Emerging Church Bloggers/Christianity 2.0

My Happy Hour is this coming Monday, 12th November at 5pm GMT (London time) on Shapevine.com. That’s midday in New York. Come with questions for my very special guests who are turning up through video cam. They include: Bob Beltz, an author of numerous books and creator of the world’s first virtual monastery. He is…

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tall skinny kiwi’s blog party!!! is 2nite

here is your invite heres my time in UK right now UPDATE (02/04) : Next Tuesday at 7pm (UK time). Everyone who reads my blog is invited. Even gatecrashers, lurkers, hackers, crackers, spammers and baptists. Come along and celebrate with me. Theres room for everyone. Honest. The room is called “blog party!!” and the password…

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Gaming and Training

Hats off to the Christian Century Magazine who just published a (paper-only?) special on theological education for the future. Its entitled “Seminary 2050” and my copy just came to the door. Great to see other voices on the same topic from friends of mine like Brian McLaren and Maggi Dawn. Great also, to see my…

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Re-imagining Cyberchurch

An article i wrote for Relevant mag just came out.It was originally called “Reimagining Cyberchurch” as a nod to Doug Pagitt. But the editors have called it “Linking to Cyberchurch” and thats fine with me. Relevant Magazine holds very high standards in both content and graphics so I am just happy to have them publish…

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Will We Have Mega-Cyberchurches?

Hi, Andrew. hope you are fine. right now we are working on the German edition of Roland Allen’s Missionary Methods. He writes a lot about strategic centres…and defines them geographically. Could you write a (longer) comment on what strategic centres are / can be in the present world (cultural centres, virtual centres?) and what this…

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Suddenly Seminary OFF

Sorry people – I cant even get into Suddenly Seminary tonight on my dial up connection. ADSL gets here next month (July 27) and I am just gonna have to wait. Sorry about that. “Are we we are the waiting.” (Green Day)

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Suddenly Seminary Tonight

UPDATE: From 8pm to 9pm GMT. Just a check in tonight. Hardly anyone knows so there may only be a few people – but i will be there. Tuesdays at 8pm GMT. Resumes tomorrow. Head for “Suddenly Seminary” and be ready for a chat. habbohotel.co.uk and password is boaz1 Nothing serious on Tuesday – just…

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Brian’s Hell at 9PM GMT

OK – Brian McLaren is coming here on Monday morning (May 9) to share about his controversial book “The Last Word and The Word After That:A Tale of Faith. Doubt and a New Kind of Christianity” and answer some of your questions (that you will leave as comments on Brian’s post) He will be posting…

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Suddenly Seminary at Soularize

Heres a first. I cant come physically to teach at Soularize this year, but Spencer of TheOoze.com has asked me to do a virtual class in my 3D Suddenly Seminary room as one of the Labs. He will have a special WIFi room equipped for you. I will be the only one not in the…

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Graduation Party Online

Update: Thanks everyone for coming. Here is a picture of us dropping into the tub. Great game, Sam!!! The idea was you go through one teleporter and come out falling into the tub. we found out that you can take your coffee with you and it doesn’t spill.

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Newbies at Suddenly Seminary

Hey – thanks for a great time. Good to see so many new people from all over – Portugal, Canada, Germany, even Scotty’s wife with baby. The screenshot was taken during a God-moment when everyone broke out into spontaneous singing of Veggie Tales. Next Tuesday – I would like to shoot a movie inside Habbo…

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Suddenly Seminary – thanks

UPDATE: thanks for turning up. Nice to chat with you! Tuesday 14th (not 13th – oops) at 7pm London time. Password this week will be “boaz”. Nothing heavy to download or prepare for this week. Just turn up and lets chat. Come and see my new coffee machine and have a cup on me. How…

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chatting with renee

All over now. Thanks very much to Renee for her time, her thoughts and her life. Here is a snapshot of what our discussion looked like (right after we locked the door) (earlier) This is what i look like in Suddenly Seminary. I am checking in now and will be there for the next few…

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Renee Today at Habbohotel.co.uk

Tune in later today when Renee comes on this blog as part of her blogcrawl and PA schedule for her book Stumbling Toward Faith: My Longing to Heal from the Evil that God Allowed. At 7pm tonight london time Renee Altson , who blogs at Ianua, will visit me in the virtual chat room “Suddenly…

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INRI at Suddenly Seminary

Tonight! This will be the last one for a while. Summer is here and i will be traveling to places wifi-deprived and broadband-desolate so we will finish off our little virtual seminary experiment here. I will turn up for one hour at 7pm London time. You have a few hours to prepare. I realise this…

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Tim Bednar Special Guest

Tim will be with us for the first hour at Suddenly Seminary. Lets meet Tuesday 13th July at 7-9 pm (GMT – london time). Discussion will revolve around Tim Bednar’s paper (with the obnoxious title) “We Know More Than Our Pastors: Why Bloggers are the Vanguard of the Participatory Church” Download the 45 page paper…

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Virtual Map Emerging

Its been over two weeks since we started building virtual rooms. Jonathon is building a map. Lots of new rooms are popping up also, and we need to have an open house event one night. This reminds me of the early stages of blogging, except it going much faster. Are you also starting a room?…

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