I have been listening to Leonard Sweet’s So Beautiful. David Phillips does a good job reviewing the book here. I confess I prefer print and paper. The thought of a Kindle has intrigued me. But, I like paper and print. Bibliophiles love books in their hands, on their shelves, and in their homes. It is [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Virtual Small Groups
My friend David Phillips and I were chatting the other day. He told me of a conversation where the idea of utilizing technology for small groups would include the www.tokbox.com platform. This is not new. We both know groups thinking of ways to do connect for meetings, book clubs, etc. The conversation David had included [...]
Laughing with Regina Spektor
Interesting intersections when culture meets theology.
Thoughts from the Edge – Acts of Grace
The heat here is oppressive. Those without any kind of conditioned air will be under an alert for the THI (Temperature Humidity Index). Warnings have been issues. Suffering in this heat will be common. Either age or existing medical condition will create the circumstance for difficulty. We can be right about these facts. The call [...]
What If SBC Outpost Reflected on the GCR and the SBC?
Leading up to this year’s SBC Annual meeting some of we alums from the old SBC Outpost shared some independent conversations. (Yes, there were three iterations of SBC Outpost. I will decline comment on any single iteration and not spar with a soul over “which one was better.”)
“What are your thoughts about the GCR?,” tended [...]
“Witness” as Vocation – Other, no matter how many, as Occupation
My friend Todd Hiestand offers a great, personal post. The line that go my attention, and should get yours too,
(By the way, I use the term â??bi-occupationalâ? instead of â??bi-vocationalâ? because I believe that my vocation as a Christian is â??witness.â? What I do for pay does not change my vocation. My vocation is witness, [...]
U2 on the SBC
Despite the motion made at the Annual SBC meeting in Louisville, here is a U2 message for the last day of the meeting. Those of you who look in on us from the outside may or may not get the connection. We have a history if divisiveness that eventually gives way to the realization we [...]
iMonk “E.F. Hutton” Weighs In on Day 1 of SBC
Quoted during the SBC Pastor’s Conference. Interviewed ad nasuem after his post on the Coming Evangelical Collapse. Michael Spencer weighs in with his usual salient points. I did not have time to throw together my thoughts. Maybe tomorrow. It is late. So, if you would like to listen to someone who should be listened to, [...]
Will History Repeat Itself? Stetzer challenges SBC Not To
I do not often write about the SBC but some things still churn in the blogs I read over the recent Annual Meeting. In those events, I may ruminate for those interested in such a topic. Ed pointed to this article he wrote in 2003. I have brought it up to date some to consider [...]
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