Over the last couple of weeks and months I have been thinking about this site and what I wanted to do with it. It has been around in some form or another since 1996 when I launched my first personal site on GeoCities. It started just a couple months after I started pastoring in Spiritwood [...]
TheOoze
Saturday Open Thread
The rise of the cafe start-up The Future of the Blog The Hip Hop Church in the WSJ :: Ginkworld and TheOoze.com gets a mention :: sn’t this Religion Lite, with graffiti? Quite the opposite, insists Mrs. Tickle. “This is religion like it hasn’t been lived in 300 years,” including a renewed interest in fasting. [...]
A new chapter
Years ago when I was at Lakeview, we used the idea of different chapter in the church’s life for a metaphor for a building project. It was called Chapter 6. To reuse the metaphor (I should have copyrighted it), when I quit Spiritwood, it is the close of one chapter of my life. On February 13th I [...]
New ETREK starting in February
This comes from my good friend Spencer Burke of TheOoze. Four years ago I launched a learning alternative called ETREK. My desire was to offer actual real world opportunities during this transitional time between “institutional to emerging” forms of church, education and networking. ETREK takes us beyond critiquing the systems of the past and creates [...]
Heather Reynolds on HIV/AIDS
Wendy and I were doing some winter cleaning and we found an old audio tape of Heather Reynolds talking at Soularize in 2002 on the impact on HIV/AIDS on society and her remarkable story. You can find the podcast and audio file here. Technorati Tags : HIV, AIDS, Heather+Reynolds, South+Africa, Soularize, TheOoze, podcast
Spamming Wikipedia
The Emerging Church definition at Wikipedia is always changing and one of the changes has been people adding their websites and blogs to the listing of Emerging Church resources. The list keeps on growing and growing and growing and soon all sorts of people are listed there. Look, it is an wikipedia article, not a [...]
As I was saying
Last nights walk reinforced somethings that I have been saying for a long time, most churches are designed for people that work 9-5, Monday to Friday and more and more people are not working those traditional shifts. I was recently talking to an old co-worker who again talked about wanting to find a church that [...]
