Take a moment and listen to this interview with Catherine Rohr who began the Prison Entrepreneurship Program
I didn’t know who she was, nor do I really have much interest in those in prison, but this is definitely worth listening to.
It’s taken from a catalyst podcast, i just clipped out the interview portion.  I hope they [...]

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I’m going to spend the next while posting some thoughts about church planting, mission, and ecclesiology.
The odd thing is most books and experts will tell you that these topics primarily begin with demographics, market research, target audience, all that stuff.  I’ve went ahead and dreamed and schemed without really factoring these in.  I’m sure there [...]

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Five years ago I dragged my wife from her hometown of Ottawa to the ‘big city’ of Toronto.
My wife really didn’t like Toronto, and at that time I made a thirty year plan for our lives part of it consisting of going back to Ottawa for several years.
I saw some benefits to this, as Yvz’s [...]

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Some excellent notes have come out around the web from the Q conference.
Via churchrelevance.com -
Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine on the next 1,000 years of Christianity
A World of Change
The Internet is about 4,000 days old. Our world is changing. In fact, no U.S. president has died under the same flag he was born under. The [...]

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I finally got around to checking out wis.dm yesterday. It’s one of the latest social networking sites emerging.
wis.dm has a streamlined approach to q&a networking allowing only yes or no responses, which seems to simplify and increase participation.
I popped several questions yesterday and received as many as 60 responses already to some of [...]

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I’m not all that into the Christian music scene, but there’s this song from a few years back that I’ve always loved by Sixpence none the richer. It’s called you’re here.
Here’s an audio clip but it doesn’t quite get to my favorite part of the song.
The second chorus sings
I can hear Your [...]

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I’ve just updated my Mosaic Movement Resources page with additional articles, interviews, audio, and video clips.
Some of the best video clips are interviews with Erwin McManus at videovine including:
- The Biblical Model is to Disciple Unbelievers
- Communicating the Human Struggle in a Postmodern Context
- What one thing would you say to non-Christians?
- Small Groups and [...]

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So I bragged about being able to teach about anything, and ended up getting assigned to teach through a series on financial stewardship. I know nothing about finances. Off the top I could not think of a more boring topic.
Yet it’s something that has been shaping my soul the last while, and how [...]

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Sorry for the outage at this site earlier.
I found a better place to host my site for free that’s a bit quicker and offering a few more features, but it was a bumpy transition.
I sure hope it was worth it. I learned some techie things during the transition that just aren’t worth remembering.
There wasn’t [...]

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There was a quote I remember that came out of last year’s Willow Creek Leadership Summit with Bono.  Someone said they went to see if Bono was really a Christian, but they left wondering if they were really Christians.
That’s what this book has done to me.  It makes me wonder if I’m a Christian.
I mean [...]

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