June 2009

Crazy guy #1

Seth Godin posted this video about a tribe that spontaneously came together at a music festival. He insightfully points out how guy number 2 and 3 make it into a ‘movement’, while guy #49 is irrelevant. I’m still caught on guy number one. Without the other two guys, he really just looks like one solitary [...]

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Confession: I read the entire twilight saga

Six months ago when my back snapped and I was confined to bed, I read through the entire twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.  Actually I listened to the audiobook, but still, I had to endure the endless teeniebopper descriptions of Edward Cullen’s great physique.  (ie. ‘his body shone like diamonds in the sun’, enough to [...]

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Rapidly changing demographics

HT: Marty Schmidt Europe a Muslim continent in a few decades? Can culture really be definied as narrowly as by population? How might President Obama’s speech in Cairo to the Muslim world shape things? Where does Christ fit into all of this?

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The Divine Commodity

The Divine Commodity by Skye Jethani has been one of the most intriguing books I’ve read this year.  His thoughts on consumer Christianity are well crafted, and I love the way he weaves in van Gogh’s life and artwork (I can’t wait to act like a complete art snob in front friends now with my [...]

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The emergent church according to Peter Rollins

This was a thought provoking discussion, worth your time listening in. Peter Rollins will also be sharing at the Poets, Prophets, Preachers gathering I’m stoked to be at. (btw, I know the emergent term has been pulled through the gutter lately, but I’m also influenced by hardcore reformed fundies like Mark Driscoll and Tim Keller… [...]

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