i stream. u stream. we all stream.
Back in the 80s, one phone company tried to sell little video phone call devices with 2″ screens. People didn’t buy it. Now we have video calls via iChat or Skype video. But what if we could do video calls...
Monthly Archive: May 2007
sponsor my cross country move
In January 1991, I put all my worldly possessions in my car and drove to Dallas for seminary. In June 2007, I’ll be putting all my worldly possessions in my car and driving cross country to California, somewhere in Orange...
Winchester Virginia becoming micropolitan
I grew up in Winchester, Virginia, a small town of 20,000 (in 1980) about 75 miles west of metropolitan Washington DC. We disaffectionately called it “Funchester” because there was nothing to do except cruising. There’s one place I affectionately crave...
it’s all about relationships
One of my life slogans is “seeing life change up close.” I’ve heard that for people with a concrete tangible specific kind of thinking pattern don’t know what that means exactly. Sometimes when I get incessant questions from people that...
Calvinistic luck of the draw
Didn’t get my name drawn on the standby lottery for the DFW-DCA 3:15pm flight. Now I have to wait for my original 4:20pm flight back home. That 7-point Calvinistic god musta wanted me to blog and check-in with my little...
incredible conversations between pastors
Wow, what a day! The experience we called the Asian American Pastors Wild Challenge formally ended at 12 noon today. The 24-hour experience is unlike any other kind of “conference” or “roundtable” because of how the time is intentionally facilitated...
culmination of 6 months of work
Today starting at noon will be a 24-hour event that’ll be the “big dance” culmination of my work at Leadership Network in partnership with L2 Foundation. I’ll not comment on the behind-the-scenes of this event to keep its mystique, but...
what is emergent church?
I’ve been occasional conversational partner with the emergent church/ emergent village thing. I have no official roles or titles, never been to one of those secret meetings, but I have a handful of friends who are more on the “in”...