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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 June 14, 2009 at 10:14 am
I’m gonna have to go with The Wonder Years on this one. Seinfeld was hysterical and original, but it didn’t have near the depth that The Wonder Years did. The Wonder Years defined generations, while Seinfeld merely pointed a finger at generations. Besides, anyone who has seen Curb Your Enthusiasm knows that Seinfeld isn’t even the best Larry David show.
posted June 14, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Hmm. Seinfeld is good, but I think I’d have to go with The West Wing. Love me some Jed Bartlet.
posted June 14, 2009 at 1:32 pm
could not agree more. what more can any human ask for?
posted June 14, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Heretic!
Blasphemer!
Now you’ve gone too far… Seinfeld is not even the best one word title TV show…
Monk
House
MASH
Raymond (okay, I cheated on that one)
posted June 14, 2009 at 3:18 pm
What’s TV?
posted June 14, 2009 at 4:38 pm
The Wire
posted June 14, 2009 at 4:42 pm
No way. I dislike that show massively. My own favorites:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Star Trek (TNG)
Arrested Development
Mushi-Shi
posted June 14, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Seinfeld was a very mean spirited show. I didn’t care for it at all.
posted June 14, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Debra,
The mean-spiritedness was meant to be ironic commentary.
For me, while Seinfeld is definitely in the top 10, “Lost” takes the number one prize.
posted June 14, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Right you are!!!
It’s not really mean spirited – it’s irony. The main characters are meant to point out the parts of ourselves that are shallow and mean spirited. It looks like they’re making fun of a lot of people but really … they’re making fun of those of us that think we’re so cool and together. We’re the brunt of the joke. I love it!
posted June 15, 2009 at 2:35 am
Rarely a day goes by that I do not find reason to quote from a Seinfeld episode. It is a show about nothing, which makes it about everything. Genius.
posted June 15, 2009 at 12:09 pm
You know, I really enjoy Seinfeld. But, in the final episode when the main characters are on trial, you see that they really have no redeeming characteristics. None. They all are miserable human beings. All of them: Jerry, George, Elaine, Kramer. Maybe that is their appeal.
posted June 15, 2009 at 2:01 pm
If this was the greatest TV show to one of the leaders of emergence- then the last episode where all the characters are shown to have no redeeming qualities and are just shallow human beings with no depth sure shows me the *why* behind the giant gulf I sometimes see between American Protestantism and old world Catholicism.
posted June 15, 2009 at 8:33 pm
False. Cheers.
posted June 16, 2009 at 3:39 pm
60 Minutes and The Simpsons. No debate.
posted June 17, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Yada Yada Yada!
I moved to London about 9 months ago and very few people here have ever heard of Seinfeld…it’s like watching it for the first time all over again.
posted June 20, 2009 at 9:07 pm
The greatest TV show is on Sunday morning (other times in different
areas) that reaches throughout the world and that is “The Hour of Power” with Pastor Schuller. This is the only program I will watch on a regular basis. It is uplifting, informative, and stands for the only thing in this world that has maintained the moral values and
teachings of our FATHER, who is in heaven and gave HIS only SON,
JESUS, as a sacrifice for all of our sin. Sin to which this nation is returning to as did every “tribe” throughout history. In the end
HIS glory WILL shine through even if HE has to destroy what we deem as human kind. TO GOD be the Glory.
posted June 22, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I remember the moment that I knew things were going to be ok for me at this church. I was teaching in youth group and the only illustration I could think to use was the time when George decided to do the opposite of whatever he was doing. Not only did my students understand the connection with the last being first and vice-versa, but a common bond formed among us Seinfeld watchers.
Oh there was also the time when the projector wasn’t working and in my frustration I yelled, “Serenity Now!” which was quickly followed by, “Insanity later”.