Posted in books, friends, lists on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
as is my style lately, i’m updating in bullets. here’s what’s on my mind:
josh ritter makes me smile. i had only heard his music a few times before jon got tickets to his show at the high noon last month. wow. maybe it was my lack of expectation, but the show kicked a$$. i can’t remember the [...]
Posted in books, church, god, tagged dreams on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
i love ideas. i’m not sure if i ever loved ideas before, but i really love them now. i married a man who’s as giddy as a schoolboy when we talk about ideas; he holds on to them like kite strings, enjoying them when they catch a breeze and fly higher, and then reeling them in [...]
Posted in books, church, tagged dreams, emergent church, hospitality, welcome on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i have a shelf of books in my office that all deal with the same subject. i’m sure that i could quite easily sum up all that these writers had to say in a brief, 5-page essay. but then, of course, the clever cover illustrators wouldn’t have made a dime, and the authors would have [...]
Posted in books, church, god, tagged church, rick mckinley, shane claiborne on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
this morning, i tuned into my first-ever webinar featuring rick mckinley, the pastor at imago dei. the topic was the externally-focused church: breaking into the kingdom. i’m so grateful i took part in it.
two colleagues joined me, and between the three of us, we cried and laughed and threw out some “amens,” though not one [...]
