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.