ah, the power we give celebrity. how they use that is intriguing to me. this is a new hollywood sarcasm psa. reverse psychology?
shades of a youth room : new carpet
so today is the start of new carpet in our youth room. tomorrow these guys should finish it. as you may see, it's a drastic change from before. we are using a commercial grade recycled carpet. commercial in that it is low pile (thin) with a hard rubber bottom. it only needs to be vacuumed regularly and steam cleaned once a year. the recycle part comes that it uses recycled carpet materials. next week get our chairs, which i am excited about.
happy b’day to me : blog-aversary
today marks four years of blogging. wow!
as i think of my the life of this blog it’s gone through some interesting times. days of big numbers, lots of posting, seasons of posts on church life, church & culture commentary, monasticism, youth ministry, methodist everything, then more and more oddities (which i think is what i’ve been doing a lot of lately).
my thought to celebrate four years is to do some rooting through the archives and find some gems. some cool thoughts maybe, some commentary or reflections that don’t make sense anymore.
so i will be going through and finding significant posts that reflect the same week four weeks back.
back in 2005 around this time beth stroud’s case of being defrocked, undefrocked, and defrocked again. i also had found some resemblance of the modern church in this monty python sketch.
true : what people see
i always enjoy when asbo Jesus is at the top of his game.
internet is our parish : nuts and bolts
in a few hours i will be in session for my first workshop here at christian educators fellowship conference in albuquerque. my first workshop is a nuts and bolts session we will be going over a better website and see where that one takes us. next session (tomorrow at 2pm mountain time) i will be going over building communities and social media. lots of fun stuff.
this is not the first time, but i am using liveworship as my presentation software. i felt the organic nature that this topic can take was disserviced by a linear training method like keynote (i actually started using keynote but abandoned it at last minute). liveworship is not as slick at keynote in bells and whistles and tweaking the spacings, but it will service just fine i am sure.
these are my all encompassing notes for my workshop… i might revise as i get closer to time.. i've revised them every time i've opened up the file. already did one edit to the first saved copy.
The Internet is Our Parish, by Gavin Richardson
I am also making suggested reading this free e-book from chris forbes