E-mail and Conflict

For about twenty-one years now I have watched people try and resolve conflict. I start to notice that some are better than others at it. Others don’t resolve it at all. Everyone has their own…

Spirituality and Technology

I’m currently in a class this year at York that requires me to keep blog entries on my thoughts on the current readings and my interactions with other things in the course. Instead of starting…

Proving Myself Right

I have this uncanny desire to prove myself right. There is something about being right that gives me some sort of fulfillment and peace to what I am doing or saying. For instance, I have…

The Pastor Role

I’m starting to wonder if the place of a pastor needs to change drastically within the context of our churches today. I don’t think its working. More and more pastors are falling into burn-out, affairs…

Revivalism

I was reading Next Reformation, and this quote was his latest post. Guess I’m not the only one in the world that thinks its dangerous, and maybe some of the things I said in my…

Links for Sept 13, 2006

Joe posts some thoughts on our first gathering as theStory and also pictures of the place we are looking to have gatherings in the future; an old United church that wants to give it to…

theStory Day 1

After it was all over, Joe, Darryl and I were sitting there and I looked at them and I said “well, we did it, we just planted a church.” (theStory) I don’t have a clue…

An Hour and A Bit

It is 9:46, and in an hour and a bit, theStory begins. So much time, energy, dreaming, upsets and excitement has gone into what is starting in an hour and a bit. For over four…

Sarnia Revival on TV

The Sarnia Revival has been a source of discussion a bit on this blog. A lot of it came from a post that I wrote here about my experience there and some thoughts to go…

Links for September 08, 2006

Margie Goodyear (the family I lived with in the summer) shares a remarkable story about the scratching noise we heard in her roof over the summer. I couldn’t believe it when I read it and…

Links for September 07, 2006

This trailer for an upcoming film called Jesus Camp freaks the hell out of me. Literally. What is going on? Why does it seem like the main message of this film is so different then…

Making Social Agents

Apparently Rachel’s family goes to bed earlier than I expected on vacation (I guess two hours of sleep stuffed in a car doesn’t equal a good nights sleep). And I also discovered that way up…

Vacation

I am on vacation for the next week and few days. In that time I am going to be moving into my new apartment and then heading out with my girlfriend and her parents to…

The Kingdom: A New System

I’ve been torn lately. I’m struggling with how to look at things that are happening to people around the world. I brought this up in the car on the ride home with Rachel and Darryl…

Materialsm, then Jesus

I don’t think I’m done with this yet. I talked a bunch about how consumerism has so infected the church that now we think it’s normal to think like a consumerist and follow Jesus. I…

Links for August 25, 2006

I just absolutly love this title “How then Shall We Kill,” it is loaded with meaning that I love. dCOMPOSE has three posts on the death penalty with this title. Part 1, Part 2, Part…

A Heretics Guide to Eternity

I just finished reading Spencer Burke’s book A Heretics Guide to Eternity. It was an enjoyable and easy read overall. His thesis could probably be summed up in a few sentences found on page 61……

Theologians and My Space

This is just too good. Walter Brueggemann, a renowned 72 year old theologian, has his own myspace, and the song that plays when you load it up….”Damn it feels good to be a gangster” Found…