Bill picks up on my post about bloggers whoring themselves out to the publishers for free books and other products. First of all, the price is quite small, EA once sent my brother to San Francisco for the launch of Battlefield 2 and game home with a bag full of schwag and more free games [...]
Bill Kinnon
Missional Challenges
Over the last year I have noticed a trend when in a mixed group of churches (often evangelical) and NGOs. It is the local evangelical churches inability to organize or work with outside groups. All of them share the following characteristics. The needs and convenience of the local church are more important than other partner [...]
Seminary 2.0
Bill Kinnon talks about a video he shot a couple of years ago with Eddie Gibbs In an interview I shot with Eddie Gibbs a couple of years ago (no longer available online, I’m afraid), Eddie talked about the present seminary model that leads to students incurring huge debts in pursuit of their Masters Degrees. [...]
Bill Kinnon on writing
Bill has a wonderful post on writing. The entire thing is worth reading but this one got me thinking In 2004, Nielsen BookScan tracked the sales of 1.2 million books and found that nine hundred and fifty thousand of them sold fewer than ninety-nine copies. So we are looking at author royalties of a couple [...]
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Bill Kinnon is writing about the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and church leaders. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is not simply about taking normal egoism to extremes. NPD is one of fewer than a dozen personality disorders described by the American Psychiatric Association. These differ from the major mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and manic-depression, which are believed [...]
So how are those missional theories working out for you?
Bill Kinnon had a wonderful post on a gathering of emerging church authors. One of the questions I would have asked of the assembled big guns is "How is this worked out in your own lives? Tell us about your involvement in local Christian community?" My fear is that only Dr. Morse and Dan Kimball [...]
