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Humor for Breakfast [Nerd Alert] 2008-12-18 09:16:00 If programming languages were religions (via Slashdot...of course)Here's a sample:C would be Judaism - it's old and restrictive, but most of the world is familiar with its laws and respects them. The catch is, you can't convert into it - you're either into it from the start, or you will think that it's insanity. Also, when things go wrong, many people are willing to blame the problems of the world Read more:Alert
, Breakfast
, Humor
What the Church can Learn from Apple [2of4] 2008-12-17 12:55:00 Image via CrunchBase, source unknownThis is a four-part series on "What the Church
can Learn from Apple
(the computer and media company)." Read the whole series here.
We talked last week about the Apple brand and the "branding" of its products. This week we are going to talk about their focus on simplicity and lifestyle technology, and what insight this offers church programmin
Valkyrie: Hitler under God's Justice 2008-12-15 11:00:00 The upcoming movie Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise brings to light the interesting history Christian theology has with HITLER (scream heard in the night). While I poke fun whenever people prove Godwin's Law correct, the truth is that the rise, existence, and atrocity that is Hitler
is a fundamental challenge to traditional Christian theology (whatever that is).
On the National Geographic Read more:Justice
Noah, not God, made dinosaurs extinct 2008-12-15 08:20:00 Here's the executive summary of a very important scientific report regarding how the dinosaurs became extinct .
The executive summary, of course, is a cartoon. By Dan Piraro (Bizarro)
Related, I also enjoyed this video where artist Dan Piraro of BizarroBlog talks about his religiously-themed cartoons that were too controversial for the papers. On the latter topic of why do
Daily Read 12/11/2008 2008-12-11 07:30:00 Ministry Best Practices: Swaytags: booksTheir premise is that "our behavior and decision making are influenced by an array of such psychological undercurrents and that they are much more powerful and pervasive than most of us realize.I Don’t Acknowledge Your Marriage | Friendly Atheisttags: marriageinstant, eyebrow-raising recognition. Suddenly the majority gets to feel what the minority feels. Read more:Daily
What the Church can Learn from Apple [1of4] 2008-12-10 06:46:00 Image via CrunchBase, source unknownThis is a four-part series on What the Church
can Learn from Apple
(the computer and media company). Read the whole series here.
There's often reference to the "Religion of Apple" or the "Cult of Mac." Back in October, CNET ran a story called "Apple (and its Branding) like a Religion" (hat tip to Church Marketing Sucks). In the blog reference
Where to find Jesus this Christmas 2008-12-09 21:04:00 I collect urban images of Jesus
. I'll post them during this holiday season off and on. But here's a new one for this season that won the marketing campaign in Britain:
The painting is by Royal Academy Gold medal winner, Andrew Gadd. The oil painting is on canvas and depicts the holy family, with halos, in a dark bus shelter. The shepherds and wise men are replaced with fellow passenger Read more:Christmas
Sobering... 2008-12-08 18:57:00 Global Rich List
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All you have to do is make a choice.
$8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.
$30 could buy you an ER DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.
$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic t
What the Church can Learn from Apple [preview] 2008-12-06 07:39:00 Image via Wikipedia Starting this coming Wednesday, HX has a new series coming: What the Church
can Learn from Apple
.
Yes, it will be shamelessly modeled after the successful (if not very commented-on) series on "What the Church can Learn from Wikipedia." Check out that series here. And yes, it will be less intellectually-heavy as that series...I learned my lesson on shorter, conc
Twitter of Faith 2008-12-06 07:20:00 Back in May, I blogged about twittering the Gospel, meaning to condense what you consider to be the "Good News" into 140 characters, or short enough for a text-message or twitter post. You can read the responses here.
But I apparently didn't understand Twitter
well enough to realize how to use it. Some other folks did understand Twitter better (Pomomusings - Twitter of Faith
) and have been
FriendConnect with other Hackers! 2008-12-05 12:30:00 Today blogs everywhere are jumping on the FriendConnect bandwagon...and for good reason. It will be very helpful to get feedback from people easily and build better communities.
Did you get your google account yesterday like a good boy/girl/pet? Great!
So, on the sidebar you will see two new boxes, and below each blog post page (where you would leave comments) is another new box.
F Read more:Hackers
Rick Warren is not Bonhoeffer [bad.hack] 2008-12-05 12:28:00 In an interview with Fox News , Pastor Rick Warren
of Saddleback Church had this to say:Last night, on Fox News, Sean Hannity insisted that United States needs to "take out" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Warren said he agreed. Hannity asked, "Am I advocating something dark, evil or something righteous?" Warren responded, "Well, actually, the Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with.
Welcome NPR listeners! [open post] 2008-12-03 17:28:00 Apparently, a story I contributed to will be on NPR's Morning Edition, 9am EST on Thursday the 4th (Two New Bibles Preach a Hip Eco-Friendly Gospel)Please hold me accountable if my ego gets inflated over being a part of this fine program.For first-timers' reference, my reviews of the two bibles being featured can be found here:- The Bible Illuminated [review]- The Green Bible [review]And the purpo Read more:Welcome
The Bible Triumphant 2008-11-29 07:35:00 Methoblogger John Meunier posted a week or so ago the parallel between Joel Osteen's creed about the Bible...and the creed of the Marine Corps Rifleman (Get your Bible, Get your Rifle). He didn't know how to respond to it, so I'm offering to do so now! ;-)
If you've ever watched Osteen on TV or in person, the spectators at his parish hold their bibles in the air and recite with him Lakewood
All I want for Christmas... 2008-11-26 22:01:00 Is an invite to Triiibes.
Triiibes is a web community dedicated to the kind of grassroots and exemplary styles of leadership that I am. It sounds like exactly the type of people to have a conversation about grassroots and non-hierarchical methods of transforming the church.
It is a closed community. So if you are reading this blog, and think I would be a good fit, I'd love an invi Read more:Christmas
What Personality is your Blog? 2008-11-24 10:51:00 Typealizer tries to categorize your blog in one of then Myers-Briggs personality types.
Try it. Typealizer
Does it work? Not for me. It categorizes me as ISTP...which, if you know me, is the polar opposite of my personality type ENFP. Every test from Methodist ordination to the internets says that's my type.
So, take it with a grain of salt. Unless it matches!
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