My good friend, John Armstrong, is leading the Winebrenner Seminary annual Ritz Lecture Series this coming Monday here in Findlay. I am leading a workshop in the afternoon as part of it on the practical application of missional ecumenism, John’s premise (and rightly, I believe) that the greatest scandal of the Church is our division, […]
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At the beginning of this year I wrote an article for our denominational magazine, The Lutheran, about a new set of song books by my friend, Eric Wefald. Like many mainline denominations, we have a difficult time getting our groove on in worship with anything that was written after the 19th Century. This collection of […]
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This is a first – a book review. Wired Jesus has been largely about the net but as we have all seen in the last five years, the distinctions have disappeared and nearly everything points back to the web anymore. Your Church Is Too Small is a book that speaks to me and I think […]
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Wired Jesus On the Road For those in Ohio and Florida, there are two Wired Jesus On the Road events coming up in April. The first is for students at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio but the second is for the Tampa area. There is a facebook page for registration. Wired Jesus On the Road […]
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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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Like I just mentioned, I am doing a seminar for Act 3 Ministries here in Chicago for my good friend, John Armstrong. Act 3 is a unique ministry that brings together mainliners and evangelicals for mutual conversation and mission – not always an easy thing to do – but John has the cred to do […]
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Here it is, Podcast #8 – OMG!: How Generation Y is Redefining Faith in the iPod Era. I’ll apologize for the quality on this one – nothing to do with the hardware, all to do with my bronchitus that has kept me home for two days now. So please excuse the occasional cough and wandering […]
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As I finish posting Podcast #8, I’m home sick watching The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) starring Anthony Quinn on Turner Classic Movies. I figured someone would pull this old gem of a movie out after John Paul II died. Not only does it give a good view of what happens whenever a pope dies […]
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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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