One of the things that I enjoyed this fall was creating the series of Christmas Gift Idea posts that so many people criticized this fall. While there was some negative comments, the response was overwhelmingly positive from complete strangers who really enjoyed those features and said it made Christmas shopping a lot easier on them. [...]
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 [...]
Pacman is nothing but consistent
While as a Saskatchewan Roughrider fan, I would have loved to see Pacman Jones wreak havoc with the Winnipeg Bluebomber locker room, I am amazed how he messed this up. Twitter + Ustream = Unemployment. He has messed up in Tennessee, Dallas, and now has flunked out of Winnipeg. From Paul Friesen at the [...]
Now on Twitter
The last couple of days I have been having a running discussion with Karen over at The Hedge Society on Twitter about why Apartment Therapy doesn’t use Twitter. Several of my favorite design sites all use Twitter and I follow many of them over at The Cooper Cabin. During our discussion made me realize that [...]
Emerging Events
There are a couple of event based Twitter accounts I follow and I was thinking that someone needed to do the same for events those of us in the emerging church might find helpful to know about. So instead of waiting for the lazyweb to create on, I decided to create on at twitter.com/emergingevents. If [...]
Bill Easum is blogging
I don’t know how I missed this but Bill Easum is blogging. Bill’s writings have influenced my thinking a lot over the years and just the other day I was talking about his books to someone. I have generally considered church consultants to be like snake oil salesmen but Bill’s firm and Lyle Schaller has [...]
The Social Impact of Facebook and Twitter
The New York Times has a good article on the impact that Facebook and Twitter are having on culture today. Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through [...]
