Rob Bell’s ‘Love Wins’: Reviews, comments and book sales pour in | MLive.com. An interesting story from the local Grand Rapids newspaper about the book and a video clip from a very persistant MSNBC reporter who wants black and white answers to the mysteries of God. Its funny, really. Rob tries to be patient with […]
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Armageddon Entrepreneurs: Who’s Profiting From Fear? – CNBC. This pretty much says it all: This latest wave of turmoil is prompting some pastors, like John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas, to use their websites to promote their ideas, along with links to materials for purchase. Hagee is a popular televangelist and senior pastor of the […]
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Has Your Church Started to Die? | TonyMorganLive.com. A starkly clear appraisal of the established American church and its congregations by Tony Morgan. Its sad and funny, that Boomers would become the generation that does not want to change or give up its preferences or power for emerging generations. However, since they are reluctant to […]
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17 Signs Of A Fast Growing Church | Brian Dodd On Leadership. Living in the Lutheran tribe, with a 500 year history and serving in a congregation that has been around for over 100 years, I’m not exactly living ministry in the fast growth track. When I read this article it got me thinking. There […]
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The Authenticity of Facebook and Twitter | Big Is The New Small. I credit Scott Williams for causing me to rethink and discover twitter as being something more than bumper sticker wisdom. I can’t recall where I came across his blog, but as I started following his twitter feed, it opened up how leaders are […]
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Thanks to the snowstorm that has shut down most everything here in NW Ohio, it seemed the right time to finish up a podcast. While its a little rambling, I try and paint the picture is that there is a global revolution going on in younger generations that involves freedom and creativity that is being […]
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Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer. I sent this on to Leonard Sweet. I’d bet money that the academics are boomers who struggle to communicate in the digital world. For all the talk of creating isolation, I think its may be as much the growing […]
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Fox Rejects Jesus Hates Obama Ad Okay, first it was the Doritos Eucharist, now Jesus Hates Obama. My first response was I didn’t know that Jesus was trying so hard to be on the Superbowl. My second response was that advertisers will do most anything for 30 seconds of fame. In thinking a little more, […]
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Posted in American Culture, Television on Jan 21st, 2011
‘Skins’ Star Defends Show’s Racy Content: ‘It’s What Teens Are Doing’ – The Hollywood Reporter. First Glee, now Skins. Are these shows “sexualizing” our teens or are the symptom and result of the Boomer sexualization of society? Perhaps the question not whether we can stop this but do we understand how we got here?
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Posted in American Culture, Prayer, Wandering on Jan 13th, 2011
Arizona Shooting Massacre Brings Need for Healing, Lesson in Forgiveness – FoxNews.com. I’m posting this with a quick note right now to remind myself to say more later. This whole mess and the civility debate just strikes me as weird, insensitive, and manipulative. This story is one of the few stories that takes the faith […]
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