Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers | Reuters. Its been interesting to hear in my tribal circles that giving to congregations and the denomination has gone down ever since we allowed the option for congregations to call gay and lesbian pastors in partnerships. Considering that only 500-600 congregations left out of 11,000, it doesn’t […]
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Bidding intensifies for Calif. megachurch – Yahoo! News. The story continues. Mismanagement, not cultivating outreach to younger generations, and cult of personality. For me, not only is it evidence of the death of the megachurch as boomer phenom, but also points to the decline of mainline denominations. We grew with the boomer wave and catering […]
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Steve Jobs Delivers 3 Life Lessons on Personal Clarity – Will Mancini. Profoundly sad, Steve was one of those visionaries like an Edison or DaVinci that leaves a lasting mark on the world. As I was listening to WJR in Detroit this morning, the commentator was contrasting this commencement address about pursuing vision and one’s […]
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Posted in Blogs, Death and Dying on May 9th, 2011
Blogger announces own death after battle with cancer – CNN.com. Very weird to see this doing a mind break this afternoon. “Here it is. I’m dead,” read the last internet post of Derek K. Miller, who died last week after more than four years of blogging about his struggle with colorectal cancer. As a blogger […]
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Posted in American Culture, Death and Dying, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, Jesus the Christ, Love, Rob Bell and Love Wins, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Podcast on Apr 25th, 2011
Well, Lent was certainly interesting and perhaps the most interesting part was the continued debate over Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins. While the press coverage is largely done, the debate among pastor people and religious blogs is continuing. During this season when we remembered Jesus suffering, death, and resurrection, one segment of the church focused […]
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A Question about Martin Bashir’s Question | Jesus Creed. You learning something new all the time. I don’t watch much MSNBC but Martin was very dogged about having Rob Bell answer the either/or question on salvation and personal decision. I had no idea he was an evangelical and to my own embarassment, I stereotyped him […]
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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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Just in time to end the year, a new podcast. Its a little different from some podcasts in that it has less to do with any specific site on the web and more to do with what I see as the transitions going on in the world, generations, and in the church. As I say […]
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I can’t believe it – no podcast since August? Well, here’s a new podcast and more to come in the next two weeks. As I said in the previous post, 99 Balloons is a powerful video and once you see it, you can’t get it out of your head but for the best of reasons. […]
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Yesterday my wife asked me if I had seen 99 Balloons on YouTube yet. I said no, but I saw it on MTV years ago in German. Turns out she was not talking about Nena and 99 Luftballoons but rather something she had seen on Oprah. I have to be honest. I’m not an Oprah […]
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