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guest post on the good news

by john on April 16, 2009 · 0 comments

Today, I’m honored to be the guest blogger in the Good News series on JR Woodward’s blog. Hope you’ll make your way over there to read my thoughts and join the discussion in the comments section.

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a new kind of conversation

by john on March 26, 2009 · 1 comment

I received a review copy of A New Kind of Conversation. The subtitle is Blogging Toward a Postmodern Faith. My first impression was that this was a book about blogging, and how this online conversation is helping shape postmodern faith. I thought it might be interesting. But on a closer look, I realized it [...]

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new and improved ideas

by john on December 1, 2008 · 4 comments

From the How I Spent My Thanksgiving Break department comes a new blog design. The new look went live yesterday, though I still have a few tweaks to make here and there.
I’ve used the Thesis theme for a few different sites, but this is the most extensive reworking of it that I have done. I [...]

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Hello to all who are thinking about blogging. I’ve been at it since mid 2004, and I think I have one important lesson to share. There may be other lessons I could offer, but I think I am more qualified than anyone to talk about this particular topic. Google seems to think I am too…
I [...]

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new template

by john on August 26, 2008 · 2 comments

Last night, while watching Michael Clayton, I started playing around with a new template for this blog. That might not have been the best idea, because I missed about three, or fifteen, important developments in the plot. But at least I have a new template to show for it.
My sidebar had built up about four [...]

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the artist’s way collective

by john on August 4, 2008 · 0 comments

On Saturday, I introduced The Artist’s Way Collective over on Creativityist. This will be a shared online experience of working through The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, together.
I first went through this book three years ago. You can read my impressions at the time here. As I’m leaning into a new season of life, I [...]

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wordpress for iphone

by john on July 22, 2008 · 2 comments

I’m writing this from my iPhone using the new Wordpress for iPhone app. I can now blog from just about anywhere.
That doesn’t mean I will. But I can.
Just thought everyone should know.

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recommended reading update

by john on July 11, 2008 · 0 comments

I like to read books. I like to tell other people what books I like. Sometimes they don’t ask, but I tell them anyway.
Nobody asked. But I freshened up my Recommended Reading page.
The links are associate links to Amazon. If you click on the covers and any of these books, Amazon will give [...]

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further reflections on our austin trip

by john on March 10, 2008 · 1 comment

In addition to the bits I posted here last week, I have posted some more indepth reflection on our time in Austin on the Hodos Project blog.
A few have wondered aloud why I am maintaining a separate blog for the Hodos Project. The Hodos Project blog is streamlined and focuses on updates for those praying [...]

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the hodos project

by john on February 16, 2008 · 1 comment

I’ve started a new blog to share the more specific details of our church planting journey with friends and supporters. The blog is called The Hodos Project.

Hodos Project is a code name of sorts for this early stage of our family’s transition to Austin to form a new faith community. Hodos is the Greek word [...]

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creativityist consumes

by john on January 26, 2008 · 0 comments

Things have been quiet around here as my blogging energy has gone toward getting Creativityist off to a strong start these past few weeks. In spite of the attention I’ve given over there, I have no intention of dropping this blog. It will continue as an outlet for my personal and theological wonderings…and wanderings. I [...]

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notables – 01.16.08

by john on January 16, 2008 · 2 comments

It’s been quite a while since I passed along some notable links, but I’ve run across a few in recent weeks that are worth passing along:

Our Compact Life – Tom and Malora are related to some friends of mine. They have made a compact to not shop this year and you can follow their experience [...]

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When I first started this here blog, I tended to include a lot more in the way of random posts about links I’d found, quotes from readings, quick little thoughts, etc. As other tools have made their debuts on the internet, I’ve started using some of them for some of these same purposes. So, with [...]

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some strange new digs

by john on August 31, 2007 · 5 comments

I’ve been due for a blog redesign for quite sometime, and I finally found some inspiration. I tacked the header together, but the rest of the template is Cleaker from Adam Cleaveland.
If you find any bugs, or if the new design somehow changes your life, feel free to leave a comment to let me [...]

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iphoto tag

by john on August 29, 2007 · 0 comments

Todd Hiestand tagged me. I’m going to play along, not only because I like Todd, but also because I want to encourage him to keep blogging so I can read about fascinating things like his hair growing.
This is the first photo in our iPhoto library (I say ‘our’, because we keep all the photos on [...]

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