October 2004

I have wrestled a number of times on this blog regarding how organizational values should fit in a church. I’ve not been one who has endorsed the pure dismissal of leadership and organization as so many appear to have done, at least in principle. Stephen Shields, from what I have seen in a number of [...]

I’ve been visiting AllConsuming.net from time to time. It’s a website which shows what blogs have been talking about what books. You can see the most commonly mentioned books, or look up a book and see what blogs have mentioned it. If you mention a book in your blog, you can trackback to the page [...]

Unless you are completely allergic to Windows, you may be familiar with this picture:

This picture is preloaded on every Windows XP machine. It is called ‘bliss’. When I see it, I want to crawl through my computer screen and run through that field. I want to lay in that grass and look at the clouds [...]

Found some great thoughts in The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. I think this quote says what I was trying to say here — it just happens to say it a lot more clearly:
In discussions about the contemporary mission of the Church it is often said that the Church ought to address itself to the [...]

Thank goodness for packaging. It’s not reasonsable for any of us to go to the store and purchase sugar without it’s pretty packinging. It wouldn’t be convenient to transport it. Without the packaging, I can think of any number of rather ridiculous scenarios of what it would be like to purchase a handful of sugar [...]

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I’m trudging through The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin right now. Some good stuff, though it is taking some time to process through what he says. Here’s a quote I read this morning that jumped out at me:
In the Fourth Gospel Jesus defines for his disciples what is to be their relation [...]

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I recently heard Reggie McNeal speak, and I really like what he had to say, especially about the condition of the church and the direction it is heading if it does not change the way it does some things. Most of what he had to say is in his book The Present Future which I’m [...]

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722 did something really cool a few weeks ago. They spent the whole program in silence and directed it from the screens. You can watch what they showed on the screens through their website. Watch the one from October 5.

Ginkworld has an interview with George Barna that is a worthwhile read.

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I have downloaded and been playing around with something called ipodder. It’s a program that lets you download all sorts audio content to an ipod or any other mp3 player. It’s very new, but has created a lot of buzz in the last few weeks. Anyone can create audio that others can download, and a [...]

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Don’t panic if you don’t see your favorite sport…there’s more!

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Donald Miller’s website has been updated and it’s worth a visit.

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I just ran across something called PubSub and I’m trying it out. It will let you create an RSS feed for any specific term you want and search all the blogs that it reads for that term. For instance, you can tell it to look for the phrase “orange and purple cow”, and it will [...]

Lest I take myself or this blog in particular too seriously, I respectfully submit from Everyman’s Talmud the quote found below: (I also submit this, because I think it has a shot at dethroning “cuddle parties” for the most comments.)
A prayer for thanksgiving was included in the liturgy to be said after attending to nature’s [...]

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