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Resonate 3.0 (beta)

Well Resonate is back online with a new look and feel and the website is now powered by WordPress.  You can check out what Resonate is up to as a community, find out information about church planting, and also a listing of some of the emerging churches across the country.  The RSS feed and Twitter [...]

Cultivate Gathering

Cultivate Gathering is coming to a Hamilton near you on May 16, 2009. Cultivate is for anyone who is interested in missional church, and is happening because of numerous conversations between different people, organizations, networks and churches in Canada that long to see new forms of church thrive and relational networking happen. We are tired [...]

One size fits all?

A couple weeks (crap, maybe it was months ago, I have been kinda busy…) I got a copy of One size fits all and it is a DVD about innovative Christian gatherings across across Canada. It was done by Joe Manafo and Nathan Colquhoun from Sarnia and they did a good job in this this [...]

2009 New Year’s Resolutions

Walk or ride by mike to work 100 days next year.  Dave King has a km goal but for me I want to measure the amount of times I am walking and biking to work.  Like most of us, I work about 200 days a year.  It is amazingly cold here for a lot of [...]

Resonate Blogs

I have been experimenting with Yahoo! Pipes and have created mashup of the bloggers who make up Resonate.  You can subscribe to the RSS feed at feeds.feedburner.com/resonateblogs.

Resonate E-mail Updates

I am moving Resonate’s e-mail newsletter server to new software this weekend.  It is working today so if you want to sign up, click on this link to receive mail about Resonate, Cultivate Gathering, or upcoming events across Canada. Technorati Tags: Resonate,emerging church,Canada,Cultivate Gathering

twitter / resonate

If you are interested and a part of the Twitter community, Resonate’s weblog is posting to Twitter. Technorati tags: Twitter

Collapse of the emerging church?

Kester Brewin has some predictions for 2008. This one stuck out for obvious reasons. …the collapse of the emerging church as a popular project. He expands in the comments It’s just a hunch, but I sense that some of the key players are less and less willing to work with that particular language. I think [...]

What If?

Cultivate Missional Living [CML] is a six month training course for people who want to learn how to engage in mission in an urban community. [CML] takes place in the Beasley neighbourhood in downtown Hamilton, Ontario – one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada – and is hosted by The Freeway.[CML] is supported by Allelon, [...]

Emerging Church Documentary Tour

Nathan Colquhoun (whose blog I just bookmarked because I can never spell his last name correctly without looking it up) took some great photos of the recent emerging church documentary road trip.  The details of the recent road swing are here. Technorati tags: Emerging Church Documentary, Nathan Colquhoun, Joe Manafo, Kim Reid, Resonate, photography

Five Overlooked Web Tools for Churches and Non-Profits

Despite all of the hype about Facebook (which I find invasive), there are some other web apps out there that are worth a look at to help a church or non-profit connect with people online.  Below are five of my favorites and some ideas on how they could be (better) used. Upcoming :: It used [...]

Cultivate Gathering

November 17th, Resonate and The Freeway are hosting Cultivate Gathering in Hamilton, Ontario. Tim Baily, Joe Manafo, and David Fitch are among the speakers. The cost is $50 which includes a fine lunch as well. If you are in Southern Ontario or the Northeast United States, you will want to make sure you are there.

Brian McLaren in Ottawa

The Ottawa Citizen’s story on Brian McLaren speaking in Ottawa to the Anglican church. Can Brian McLaren heal the fractured Anglican church with a new vision of Christianity for the 21st century? The balding, bespectacled baby boomer is one of the leading lights in a new Christian movement: church without speeches, rules, robes — sometimes [...]

Organic Community by Joe Myers

A couple of weeks ago Baker Books sent me a copy of Joe Myers second book, Organic Community. A book in which he builds upon the ideas of a Search to Belong. I finally got around to reading it yesterday while sitting under my patio umbrella. I am not sure how long it took me [...]

Signs of Emergence is now available in North America

Sings of Emergence is now out in Canada and the United States. I reviewed the U.K. version of the book on my blog but with the American release of the book, I thought it was worth a repost. I also submitted a review into TheOoze for the book but I think it is still in [...]