The Wired Wanderings of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Posted in American Culture, Friends, Language and Lingo, Leadership Resources on Feb 16th, 2011
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 […]
Posted in American Culture, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Language and Lingo, Postmodern Perspectives, Social Networking on Jan 22nd, 2011
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 […]
Posted in American Culture, Language and Lingo, Postmodern Perspectives, Wired Jesus Podcast on Jul 17th, 2010
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 […]
Posted in Language and Lingo, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Basics on Sep 25th, 2009
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 their gifts […]
Posted in Jesus the Christ, Language and Lingo on May 6th, 2009
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 personal Lord […]
Posted in American Culture, Language and Lingo, Postmodern Perspectives on Aug 28th, 2008
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. The […]
Posted in Language and Lingo, Music, Wired Jesus Podcast on Oct 30th, 2006
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 via […]
Posted in Language and Lingo, Will the Real God Please Stand Up?, Wired Jesus Podcast on May 13th, 2005
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. Download the podcast […]