Archive for the 'Language and Lingo' Category

Wired Jesus Podcast #54 – What We Have Is a Failure To Communicate

Finally, a new podcast. What sparked it was some of the positive experiences I have had with congregations and change in recent months but the reality that most have become what Len Sweet calls “Bastions of Boredom.”

Bastions Of Boredom from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.
This great video done by Work of the [...]

 

Wired Jesus On the Road – Cross Training In Bowling Green on Sept. 26

I can’t believe its been this long since my last post and last podcast. However, be brave you faithful, I’m leading an event on Becoming a Digital Missionary at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green at 12:45PM. Its a day long event called CrossTraining where people from congregations around our synod share [...]

Quote of the Day

I posted this on Twitter but I can give the full story here. John Armstrong was at a Greek Orthodox monastery with an ecumenical group for some interaction. During one break time one of the evangelical visitors went up to a monk and asked, “Have you made your decision to make Jesus your [...]

Print Is Dead?

Chicago is buzzing over the abrupt announcement by controversial sportswriter Jay Marriotti that he is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times because the newspaper business is dead and doesn’t want to go down with the ship. While there is a little more to the whole thing, I think his observation of the Olympics coverage was telling. [...]

Wired Jesus Podcast #30 – “I’m Okay – Not!”

As I mention, despite my best intentions, life and my own stuff got in the way of following through with regular podcasts like I intended. I’m tired of making excuses and I’m sure you are tired of hearing them. But what is, is.
Here I do a little journey down the postmodern language road [...]

Wired Jesus Podcast 10 – Lingo and Living

Finally, Podcast #10! Took a little while to take care of some other things in daily life but getting back on track. I’ve taken the lead from Podcast 8 on the Reboot look at postmoderns across religious traditions on how to speak to postmoderns with credibility without sounding like a modern fanatic.
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