The Wired Wanderings of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Posted in Cool Congregations, Lutherans, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Podcast on Sep 24th, 2010
Well, I finally sat down and got a podcast out. Its my reflections on how Christians have this tendency to separate people out as the right sort and wrong sort, saints and sinners, saved and fallen, and then keep to themselves. Its this strange twist that forgets that Jesus hung around the social outcasts, not […]
Posted in Cool Congregations, Lutherans, Postmodern Hangouts, The Organized Church, Video on Sep 11th, 2010
In working on my sermon for this weekend, the gospel reading is Luke 15:1-10 and the part that jumped out at me was the accusation levelled at Jesus that he welcomed sinners and ate with them. His response was that heaven celebrates when the lost is found, when the 99 are left to fend for […]
Posted in American Culture, Books - Print Is Not Dead Only Different, Leadership Resources, Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Podcast on May 8th, 2010
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 […]
Posted in American Culture, Jesus the Christ, The Organized Church on Jan 14th, 2010
I came across this ancient hymn in my readings this morning and just goes to show that when our tendency is to make the church more like a funeral of facts, the ancients remind us that life with Jesus is party for all our senses. It reminds me of the great scene in The Last […]
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 American Culture, Pastor Stuff, Prayer, The Organized Church, Will the Real God Please Stand Up? on Aug 28th, 2009
Thanks for the emails and requests for a podcast on the recent actions of our tribe, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In becoming the largest Protestant denomination in the US to permit (within limited paramters) homosexuals in same sex partnerships to be pastors has awakened a firestorm and celebrations. As a local pastor, I’m […]
Posted in American Culture, The Organized Church, Web Pages To Check Out on Aug 21st, 2009
As I sit listening to the ELCA Churchwide Assembly discuss and vote on issues of homosexuality, I also received a facebook note about the tornado that the the assembly hall earlier in the week now being proclaimed as the wrath of God by local megachurch pastor John Piper. Author Rachel Held Evans has a marvelous […]
Posted in Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on Jun 28th, 2009
I recently received via Twitter from Leonard Sweet – an post about a Baptist professor who teaches at Oxford who is arguing for a sacramental theology for Second Life. The heart of the arguments seems to be that if one can worship virtually one should be able to received the sacraments virtually. I’m not sure […]
Posted in Jesus the Christ, The Organized Church, Web Pages To Check Out on Jun 25th, 2009
I received this from Leonard Sweet this week and got permission to post it here on Wired Jesus. Its worth a podcast, so watch for more later. There is definately something to be said that in a world that is concerned in talking about Jesus, asking what would Jesus do, or pointing to the “Jesus […]
Posted in Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church, Video, Web Pages To Check Out, Wired Jesus Podcast on Jun 23rd, 2009
Here is a new podcast I’ved called I AM, We Are – play on the the Hebrew name of of God and the nature of being a discipling community, the Church. I begin with my recent confirmation camp experience, painting a picture of the faith journey of millenials out of an exercise one of the […]