Monthly Archive: March 2005

podcasting ethics

podcasting ethics

Googling for phrases like “podcasting ethics” or “ethics of podcasting” turned up 0 results (with quotes). Until now. This will be the blog entry that will generate the first search result there, until when/if it becomes an issue that people...

someone else won

someone else won

I tried to put in a last minute bid for an autographed pre-release copy of Brian McLaren’s forthcoming book, The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt & A New Kind of Christianity, but someone...

Joy At Work

Joy At Work

Blogging is finally paying off, in a small way, after all these years (I’ve been blogging since 1999, before it was called blogging.) For a spell, it was occasional MSM [mainstream media] interviews. Now it’s an occasional advance copy of...

thoughtfully informed by faith

thoughtfully informed by faith

Revisited the website to Mars Hill Audio (a monthly subscription to audio journals about engagement with culture), which I had gotten tapes of in the past, and found GOLD: they’ve made available to their website visitors some of their bonus...

i (heart) church

i (heart) church

church is so often a love and hate kinda thing, and on the whole, i love church, in some of the same way as Christ loves the church.. particularly, I like all the new things and different things that churches...

emerging church diversifying slowly

emerging church diversifying slowly

Here in the United States, we’ve got at least 28% of the population that are not in “white” racial grouping: 12.5% Latino/ Hispanic, 12.3% African, 3.6% Asian (cf. Census), but we don’t see this proportional representation in the emerging church,...

missing link found between friendship and spirituality

missing link found between friendship and spirituality

This Church Executive article, Gallup survey connects friendship, food and faith, unveils a surprising link between friendship and spiritual maturity: A new study commissioned by Group Publishing, Inc. and conducted by the Gallup Organization provides a direct link between human...

getting historical

getting historical

I’m not one to think much of the past and reminisce about the “good ol’ days,” or about the future for that matter. Very much into the now, the present. Having said that, this is one of those rare occasions...