Archives for July, 2002
Despite the stress of working in a church that is struggling a little financially and staffing wise (season of church life), I do work with some amazing people. John Campea and Jeb Runquist are putting together some amazing media for this weekend when I preach on the apostle Homer. I can’t wait to see how it comes out.
Another church aside… I have the worst side job in the church. I have to design and print business cards for the staff. It is a painful job. It takes about 10 minutes a sheet and you can only add one sheet at a time. It takes around 2 hours a staff member provided all goes right. As soon as I start printing them out, staff start nagging me for theirs. Look, I meant what I said when I told you they will be on your desk in October 2005 and not a day before. It is kind of funny because I asked Jeb, “Isn’t this your job?” and he replied, “I don’t do business cards, I got jerked all around last year and I said NO MORE!” At least you have to respect his line in the sand and that he didn’t go all passive aggressive or something.
Enough about me, here is some news… In the “I guess one of them is about to find out” department. An argument over who was going to heaven and who was going to hell ended with one Texas man shooting another to death with a shotgun, police said on Monday. Believe it or not, alcohol was involved.
On a more productive note, an interview with Sally Morgenthaller in one small barking dog. This quote hit home, “My own
generation of Americans (baby boomers) suffers from a particularly virile form of narcissism. In our quest for personal fulfillment, we have failed to both teach and know our children well. Truly, our deprioritization of our own offspring is one of the great tragedies of late twentieth century America. The effects are staggering, and I’m not just talking about broken homes. It goes much deeper than that. The cessation of intergenerational narrative is at the core. The exchange of story has been one of the most important roles of family life. But getting involved in that exchange means sacrificing time, listening, and value that our children are actually worth the effort.”
They also have an interview with fellow blogger, Jonny Baker.
Is anyone surprised?
Lakeview’s Discipleship Weblog is now online. It being updated by a small but growing team of people with the goal to keep the people of Lakeview up-to-date on current articles, links, and resources for their spiritual journey.
Jonny Baker unveils the massive gay conspiracy in our childhood cartoons. It makes so much more sense now.
Russ Reeves’s blog raises the bar for design for blogs and is one of the nicest I have seen. Not only that it is a pretty interesting read as well.
Oh look! Baseball is at it again.
Like Buddy doesn’t have enough to deal with (strike, racketeering lawsuit), he is now trying to close down a Mets fan site (probably because it is way better than the official one). On the eve of a strike where there probably won’t be any more fans left, he is giving us a send off by closing down fan sites. Bud, they are the only fans you have left!
From the website,
It’s also curious why Major League Baseball would find such fault with MetsOnline.net when it has been indirectly supporting the site for several years. Hoch, in fact, was afforded a job opportunity with the Mets during the 2000 season as a direct result of his efforts with MetsOnline.net. He spent that summer working as an unpaid volunteer to help upgrade and maintain Mets.com (prior to MLB’s takeover of all 30 Major League sites before the 2001 season) all the while openly administering the “competing” MetsOnline.net.
Additionally, he has since received numerous press credentials to represent MetsOnline.net at New York Mets home games and other events, signifying not only the Mets’ acceptance of the site as a legitimate media outlet but also their support for it.
In addition to plethora of other small updates to the site, the listing of postmodern gatherings and churches has been greatly expanded. If you know of any that should be on the list and aren’t, e-mail me.
Hockey Cover Art and the New Yorker
This comes from Karen Neudorf over at Beyond Magazine
Professional hockey came to the Big Apple the same year Harold Ross founded The New Yorker, and it wasn’t long before the magazine featured regular coverage of the rink action at Madison Square Garden.
Dan Gilmour says it as it is
If you or I asked Congress for permission to legally hack other people’s computers, we’d be laughed off Capitol Hill. Then we’d be investigated by the FBI and every other agency concerned with criminal violations of privacy and security.
Then again, you and I aren’t part of the movie and music business. We aren’t as powerful as an industry that knows no bounds in its paranoia and greed, a cartel that boasts enough money and public-relations talent to turn Congress into a marionette.
That’s why I don’t doubt that the just-introduced bill, dubbed the “Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act” and co-sponsored by the representative from Disney, will get a respectful hearing. Howard Berman, D-Mission Hills, whose campaign coffers are loaded with money from Disney and other entertainment companies, wants to confer on the entertainment cartel the legal right to hack PCs it believes are part of file-sharing networks.
My father used to say to us that stupidity is the greatest sin. He did not mean simplicity of mind, but spiritual dullness: having a dead conscience and not listening with one’s heart to God.
Very few people today have any idea of the riches of the human heart. Our hearts are created to experience great things; most of us have no idea of what could happen in our lives if we would overcome our stupidity and dullness.
Excerpted from Discipleship by J. Heinrich Arnold.
Why Rex Murphy is Still One of My Heroes
From his editorial
The appeal of John Paul II to young people in particular proceeds from substance. It begins in what he believes, gathers strength in how he believes, and is immensely amplified by his simple example. Conviction is an attractive quality in itself, but conviction allied to service is irresistible.
Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic of Toronto referred to political correctness in his early address to the Youth Day celebrations. John Paul II is the most politically incorrect leader on the world stage. He is, according to most progressive opinion, on the wrong side of every right topic. He is the patriarch of the world’s longest-standing hierarchy, the very antimatter of feminism, a man who has set his teeth against every “modernist” reform. In the views of some, to call him Neanderthal would be an insult to the cave dweller. He is gorgeously, consummately, politically incorrect.
And it doesn’t matter a drat. There is something stronger than fashion, and deeper than intellectual trendiness in the man, a clarity that doesn’t genuflect to the times. For the crown of John Paul’s charisma is, by his lights, that it doesn’t flow from himself at all. It is the property of his religious faith — the conviction, to reverse Time’s formulation — that God is life.
www.theory.org.uk — the media theory site
I haven’t found a really cool site in a while but then I found www.theory.org.uk - Social theory for fans of popular culture. Popular culture for fans of social theory. I could and will spend hours here.
Why the Archbishop is embracing pagan roots
THE man expected to be the new Archbishop of Canterbury will be inducted as a druid in a 200-year-old ceremony with pagan roots in Wales next month.
Although organisers insist the Gorsedd�s pagan roots are long behind it, contributors to discussion forums on the Church in Wales website have already suggested it is �nearer to Shintoism than Christianity�. Evangelical leaders in the Church of England described it as �unbelievable�. The Rev David Banting, chairman of Reform, the conservative evangelical group, said: �We are concerned that Christian leaders should concentrate on the celebration and promotion of the Christian faith in all its wonder and power rather than dabbling in other things.�
Dr Williams will not be the only church leader admitted as an honorary druid to the Gorsedd. The Right Rev Daniel Mullins, retired Roman Catholic bishop of Menevia, South Wales, is a member. He insisted: �It has no link at all with ancient druidism.� A former Archbishop of Wales, the Right Rev George Noakes, is also a member.
The Third Coming of George Barna
From Christianity Today,
The aftermath of September 11 settled it for him. He had thought perhaps it would take persecution or war to shock America into spiritual reflection. As a traumatized nation streamed into churches, the church had a moment of opportunity. “The sad outcome is that when we needed great leadership, we didn’t have any guts,” he says. “That moment of opportunity was squandered.”
It’s not really courage that Barna identifies as crucial, though. He’s spent untold hours interacting with pastors and church leaders, and he’s convinced that the majority of them aren’t leaders. Most are admirable people whose gifts lie in Bible teaching or pastoring. Those are valuable gifts, Barna affirms, but they are not leadership. By leadership he means the ability to motivate and lead institutional change.
CT also published Barna’s nine challenges for the church.
The Church in Canadian Culture
From the article,
But this is the 21st century, and times are changing and changing fast. Clearly the Church in Canada is no longer in a position of societal privilege. It seems our influence is being challenged at every turn. Whether it be in school curricula, bio-medical ethics or the definition of marriage and the family, the Church’s position is under attack by opponents who are resentful of past influence and seek to nullify it in the future.
And we do not like it. Not one bit. We are the guys that are used to “having all the luck” and we’re not comfortable slipping into the ranks of the guys that “have all the pain.” So we respond with our court challenges, our political lobbies, our letter-writing campaigns to members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies.
Our Cabin Weblog- Recently listened to music
- David Gray – Be Mine October 19, 2008
- David Gray – December October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Knowhere October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Real Love October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Last Boat To America October 19, 2008
- Recently additions to my library
- Messy Faith: Daring to Live by Grace by A. J. Gregory October 28, 2008
- Rediscovering Church: The Story and Vision of Willow Creek Community Church by Lynne Hybels October 26, 2008
- The Teeth of the Tiger, A Novel by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell October 26, 2008
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
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