a big bucket

So this Great Emergence recap thing just isn't happening right now. Right after I read the book it was fresh and exciting, but now it's like a book report. To steal from someone who I often steal from, "it's the difference between 'having to say something' and 'having something to say'." I don't want to just regurgitate a few quotes because it so misses the point of what the book is about. The whole purpose is to look backwards, and then dream forwards, and what happened was I started 'dreaming' about other stuff with friends, and I want to open that up here as well. Unfortunately I didn't get to any of the 'dream' part in the book, which is the fascinating part, but I really only wanted to recap this so my friends could be thinking about it and then we could see what pieces we can start to put into the puzzle. So, If you wanna know about it, call me up. Maybe I'll get back to it, I hope I do, cause it's really good stuff. But for now it needs to marinade a bit longer.

And it just felt way to dang formal, anyway!

In the meantime, I had a fun discussion with some friends here at Chris Sayler's blog on the topic of nonviolence and evil. Always good. Definitely read the comments.

I've also been talking about a Neue Ministry article on business practices in the Church, which has presented some great ideas. The topics have wandered around from business to specialized churches, to the causes and effects of specialization, to shared leadership... It's all on facebook, but I'll try to find a way to do a transcript or something.

I think I want to make this more of a "bucket" for random ideas that I want to share with people to get their ideas. Sort of a collective bucket, if you will. I enjoy that a lot more than trying to polish ideas and present a thorough case for some point or other. So expect more random and quirky posts in the future. Maybe.

the first day of winter

Ok, so I really am going to continue on the Great Emergence series. This is where the book really gets good. Trust me. Some little thing called "Christmas" came along, then I went to California for a week to see friends and family and watch the Chargers beat the Broncos in San Diego (best game I've ever been to in my life!), and then I needed a week to recover from all the craziness and people. All you other introverts who know what I mean, raise your hands, er, quietly sit down in a corner and read.

Now I'm recovering from the heartache of the Chargers losing to Pittsburgh last night. Another long winter without football begins. To me it's "fall" as long as the Chargers are playing football, because you can't have fall without football and you can't have football without fall. I don't care how many times it's snowed already! At least now I will have more time to write on here since I won't be reading all the latest articles on the Chargers...