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My Blog Has Moved
Dear Readers,
After a year with Beliefnet, I've decided to move to my own domain for my blogging. It's been a fine year -- some things worked, other things didn't. But in the end, I'll be a better blogger on my own. My thanks to the Bnet editorial staff; they've been very supportive.
Ple
posted 12:13:57pm Nov. 13, 2009 |
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The Most Important Cartoon of the Year
By Steve Breen, San Diego Tribune, October 18, 2009
posted 8:51:22am Oct. 25, 2009 |
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Social Media for Pastors
Following up on Christianity21, we at JoPa Productions are developing a series of boot camps for pastors who want to learn about and utilize social media tools like blogging, Twitter, and Facebook. These are one-day, hands-on learning experiences, currently offered in the Twin Cities and soon
posted 10:45:52am Oct. 22, 2009 |
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Ending Christian Euphemisms: "Fundamentalist"
I've taken some heat in the comment section for using yesterday's post on "unbiblical" and a "higher view of scripture" as a thin foil for my own disregard of biblical standards. To the contrary, I was pointing to the use of the word unbiblical as a stand-in for a particularly thin hermeneutic. Ther
posted 10:15:41am Oct. 21, 2009 |
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Why You Should Get GENERATE
Last week at Christianity21, GENERATE Magazine debuted. With the tag line, "an artifact of the emergence conversation," it fit perfectly at the gathering. When I actually got around to reading it last weekend, I was truly surprised at how good it is.There have been several efforts to begin a paper j
posted 3:14:37pm Oct. 20, 2009 |
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posted December 22, 2008 at 12:41 pm
How self-absorbed have we become?! How audacious of us to assume that people need to know (I guess some want to though) when we are drinking coffee, going to bed, reading a certain chapter, watching TV, writing a paper, etc., etc. Who cares? Twitter is just yet another narcissistic distraction from using our time wisely.
Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, blogging, now Twitter (which I think is way overboard, wow, do you need to be in touch with everyone all the time about everything you are doing every second of the day?), iPhones, emailing and checking email every 5 seconds, emailing from your phone, blackberry, laptops everywhere you go, always constantly text messaging, blutooth, iPod always in your ear, constantly updating profiles, statuses, etc., etc…..ad infiniutm….
Technology makes it so easy to be obsessed with ourselves. Talk about our culture drowning in a sea of digital chaos….
posted December 22, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I’m with Brian. Perhaps the two of us should start the anti-twitter twit stream. Our motto will be “Twitter is for twits”.
posted December 22, 2008 at 6:01 pm
are you kidding me guys? the very things i might type into twitter are the same things i mention to friends when in face to face conversation. how narcissistic to speak with friends and share our lives together? i am quite happy to use my time unwisely if it means connecting and sharing with people i care about. i think this really is a mary/martha sort of argument that doesn’t deserve much more time here.
posted April 3, 2009 at 12:03 am
David, I am with you. I have friendships – real and true ones – I would never have formed without twitter. Yes, there is some meaningless chatter there – but there is plenty of that in “real life” too. Do you guys really claim to spend no time in meaningless pursuits? Come on.