Rejuvenile, Christopher Noxon

I picked rejuvenile after seeing it, I think, on Marko’s blog. The author was then on Colbert Repotrt (a forgettable interview) and did a little TV tour. The book didn’t get to where I hoped it would. Telling a lot of stories and using the “if it’s true once, it must be [...]

Contemplative Youth Ministry, Mark Yaconelli

I first came accross Mark’s work when I found the Youth Ministry and Spirituality project that he was heading up for SF theological Seminary. I was attracted to the works that they were exploring and have lead the last two youth ministries that I have been leading into some of the practicies and rules of [...]

The Ragamuffin Gsopel, Brennan Manning

I originally tried to read this book while being indoctrinated in fundamentalism at my southern bible college (mostly the culture’s fault, not wholly the school’s). that being said, I quickly put it down when I saw that Manning thinks God’s love is unconditional. That didn’t work for me then…however, now I have read [...]

Annual Conference

Some pastors are good at meetings. Some pastors are good at reading during meetings. Guess which category I fit into. I’m up at our annual conference, a meeting of all the pastors and lay leaders from all our churches in Washington and Oregon. Lots and lots of talking, most of [...]

PESM

Today I sent in my application for Pacific Evangelical School of Ministry. It’s a Masters of Ministry program to further my education. While it’s not the kind of masters that I can get a doctorate off of, I can transfer to George Fox and get a Masters of Theology and never have to [...]

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this is the number of emails in my inbox. This afternoon I will get this lower. If I don’t get to yours today, much apologies.

Emerging Frustration

One of the things I don’t like about the emerging scene is the way it celebritizes some and the minions follow their interests. The agenda of the mass of emergence seems to be played according to the desires of the celebrities.
What I mean is, we wonder what Rob Bell is reading and then we [...]

Tim Conder, The Church in Transition

This fab book is written by Tim Conder, who is a pastor of the Emmaus Way church in Chapel Hill, where my friend Michelle goes.. This church is a congregation of a larger church, Chapel Hill Bible Chruch. This is fascinating to me because they are doing some of the very things [...]

RE-Connect

Here’s a big long post with lots of stuff:
OLD PEOPLE: I have a growing fascination with old people. I think the most major social transition period in the west is adolescence. The second most major is retirement. I am finding that old people are just like teens only slower. There’s [...]

Saddle

Trying to get back in, with 6 books to blog on my 50 books in 2006 tour. I want to talk about old people. About the LA missions adventure. About getting lost. Bush singing. Lots of stuff.
Warning!!:
I am going to edit out the blog roll on the right, I have [...]