emergent conversant, fellow social media friend, steve knight put together this presentation on a theology of twitter. it has some great content. maybe the greatest content is him quoting me from my spirituality and social media series i did with matt cheuvront.
Emergent
radical discipleship : shane claiborne at duke chapel
one of my youth sent me this.. its really great when your teens send you stuff.
look back into the past : the things that were about this time years ago
in my on going toss out of lifting up some of the archives of this blog from similar time period over the years.
- i jumped in on some oovoo conversations with marketing & tech type people (pretty sure i was the only youth minister participating in the event). that was fun, but oovoo hasn't taken off. tokbox seems to be the next multi person video conference center.
- some ponderings from the desert fathers & mothers on parenting & youth ministry
- everyone can use some new 'faith filled' pick up lines
- an early morning reflection on the homeless in my city
- remember when the nfl was going to sue churches if you had a super bowl party.. seems they have learned from that pr nightmare
- i was again likened to a celebrity.. well, he wasn't so much celebrity then, he's more now
- church shopping & the devices of the entertaining church
- i took the strengths profile test that our church is big proponent of. can you guess what i came out as?
- my abbey journal kept while on retreat at gethsemani. good times, need to get back soon.
- in what is the only time you see capital letters use consistently, my pastor michael williams guest blogged on the theological conversation with miroslav volf
- this is what happens when you are friends with jonathon norman
- thoughts on how justice issues can become an idol unto themselves
- some ponderings on contemporary worship in my church context & how our greater church sold their soul to contemporary worship
- starbucks goes down!
war & christianity : the many voices
i found this little video looking for a psalters song. it has some interesting thoughts on war from people whom i listen too, contemporary and old school.
blogger meet up : the bishop robert schnase
if you are in the nashville area, a blogger, and got some free evening time on wednesday evening. come over to the congress on evangelism for a blogger meet up with bishop robert schnase. amy posted info at the methoblog.
Several of us attending the upcoming Congress
on Evangelism in Nashville are pulling together a blogger meetup
at the supper break time on Wednesday, January 7. We haven't yet set
the location; one factor in that decision is how many people we expect
to have. So, please email me at aforbus(at)umr.org by Friday, Jan. 2 if you plan to attend the meetup. Bishop Robert Schnase will be part of the gathering.
UPDATE:
We've decided to meet later, to get around the time crunch of the
supper break. We are going to meet up after worship and go somewhere
that'll let us sit around and talk past 9:00.
bishop schnase is the toast of methodism with his fruitful congregations book & resource. i first ran into him at the umerging event back in 2006 when he sat in as a q&a with bishop scott jones. that was a heated little conversation, but in the following years i believe we all understand each other more. i liked bishop schnazz then & i expect to like him more after hanging out.