Sarcastic Lutheran: Sermon on the worst parable ever.. Matthew 22:1-14 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: 2The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would […]
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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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Nothing like pacing one’s podcasts. This one is about a great podcast mediocre sound quality called Napkin Scribbles with Len Sweet. Len is often called a church futurist, prophet, or, if you like the status quo of living in a church of the 1950s, a pain in the butt. Although we have only met a […]
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Posted in Friends, Web Pages To Check Out on Aug 26th, 2008
If you haven’t found Outchurched blog and my fellow podcaster/Facebook friend, Rev. Dan Tripp, check it out. Rev. Dan is a Universalist with a very edgy sense of humor that I appreciate but might easily offend more gentle listeners (Be warned – not safe for kids). That being said, he recently posted this clip from […]
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Posted in Friends, Wandering on Apr 9th, 2005
I just had an article posted on Ginkworld on Podcasting and the church. Go check it out and let me know what you think. Something really strange and flattering happened when my bishop (basically my regional boss) and his staff listened to one of my podcasts as part of their meeting. The result is I’m […]
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Posted in Friends, Technical Issues on Apr 7th, 2005
After much agonizing, cursing, and threatening gestures at my laptop – what the bible calls “being cast into the outer darkness where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth”, my friend Jon Abad, pointed me in the right direction to fix the rss enclosure problem. So, you should be receiving subscriptions again and life is […]
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Somehow, someway, I managed to pull it off – get the taxes off in the mail, get things ready for weekend services (thanks to a very talented staff), and deal with the usual stuff at church – and still got this podcast in. Consider it a happy Easter for postmoderns who aren’t interested in proof […]
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I planned on posting this Thursday but got sidetracked until tonight. Welcome To Ginkworld is an introduction to the christian postmodern site ginkworld.net, my current homepage when I boot up Firefox. I also take a little time to reflect on how there are few places in the church to ask the tough questions of belief […]
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Posted in Friends on Mar 14th, 2005
I want to say a special word of thanks to all the people who, sight unseen, helped me get Wired Jesus launched. The beauty of the podcasting/blogging community is the fact that it often acts like the church does at its best: ready to help, not concerned about your baggage or beliefs, just there to […]
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