Excerpt from Call to Commitment on Church Membership
A section of Call to Commimtent’s chapter on “The Integrity of Church Membership”
Month: December 2002
Heretofore Unseen and Unanticpated places
I opened my recently acquired paperback copy of Call to Commitment, by Elizabeth O’Connor, which tells the first published story of the first decade and a half of The Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C. It opens with the following affirmation about the nature of the Church: The brownstone house in Washington, D. C. that has looked on so Continue Reading
re-engage with Job Hunt
Jobs and that search took a big ‘ol back seat during those days (see previous post, “Life is Good”), and then Christmas and visits to my parents and hers immediately followed. The trip to Cincinnati was good. I saw Larry (the Old St. George guy I have mentioned before) and he bought me lunch and made me a cup of Continue Reading
Life is Good
Life is indeed good. I don’t have a job yet, but prospects are beginning to emerge, most of which suggest that I may be a free agent, “contract” kind of worker on several Web projects for a handful of companies. But I am so relieved to be out from under some scary days this past week, when my wife had Continue Reading
Click for 75k larger
Click for 75k larger picture The Kids (Kelli and Brian), Dec. 23, 2002
Ad Hominem: Chris Locke on All The News That Didn’t Fit – Corante
From a new weblog by Chris Locke on Corante.com. I think perhaps this applies to theoblogs as well. Many times we find ourselves “working out our theology” in a very public way. Sometimes that may be embarassing, but I don’t think we need be. Just as we are not perfect as humans, neither are we when we seek to interpret Continue Reading
Smart Mobs – A Book, A Blog, and a New Wave of Social Advance
Smart Mobs- The Blog (by author Howard Rheingold)The Book – Buy or read about it at Amazon A book (and also a Blog) that is something destined to be grabbed up by any group interested in becoming connected to the “always on” day to day routines of millions of working, roaming, “mobs” of people across the world. Fine sociological analysis of Continue Reading
CyberChurch Legitimacy
Tim at e-church wrote about the question of cyberchurch and whether it is right to attend only online. A similar question: can online church can “be Church” by itself. I think part of a full response to this is that “by itself” is not truly possible for online Church, since it depends on the idea that we are attempting to “grow” and “tranform” Continue Reading
e-church com.munity weblog: Cluetrain Manifesto
e-church on Cluetrain “It is all about belonging to the community, being indigenous. This is the cornerstone of most missions’ programs, AND applies online. This is why so few bricks and mortar churches understand the concept of ‘online ministry’. To most, we are expensive brochureware — but that is only because our words reference a world/community where they do not Continue Reading
Backin’ Down on a Campaign Promise
Like I’m really surprised, but this was ONE area of the Bush campaign I determined to keep an open mind about, even though many of my fellow “non-conservatives” were already dismissing it. The faith-based thing reminds me of some of the themes of Sojourner’s Jim Wallis’ themes in The Soul of Politics and “Faith Works (paperback) : How Faith-based Organizations Continue Reading
TheOoze Explores CyberChurch
The Ooze asks : “Is it ok to only attend Church in cyber space?” |via e-church, and Tim’s comment on the Oze topic, and my comment on the same issue (comment #1 at the bottom of the list if there are more than one)
Time for basketball (even though
Time for basketball (even though the Titans are still very much alive)
Radio Kit Aggregator Pains in
Radio Kit Aggregator Pains in my Radio category posts….
Radio Kit Aggregator Pains
I sure wish I could figure out what happened to my Kit’s News Aggregator. For about 3 months, I had been using Kit Dashboard, mainly for the Aggregator, but also for the Radio to the Past. Now , both are broke. It all started when I got let go at work on Nov. 21. I had stopped my practice of Continue Reading
Cluetrain Calls
On one of the two major principles of Cluetrain: Networked markets are beginning to self-organize faster than the companies that have traditionally served them I offer these thoughts about the Self-Organizing Nature of Call