Culture
At CES in Las Vegas today, Panasonic showed off their 150" plasma TV -- just in time for the Super Bowl! But, before you rush out to Circuit City, apparently there's only one right now. Here are some more fascinating tidbits: 1. Girls blog, boys watch YouTube
Congregation
Chris Anderson's book, The Long Tail, describes the effect of more choice on consumer sales. Anderson explains it this way - The Long Tail In other words, the more stuff there is to choose from, the more choices we make. Take books, for instance. The typical Borders retail
Community
The ancient Celtic Christian abbeys produced beautiful illuminated manuscripts, the most notable being The Book of Kells. In his book, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill credits Irish monasteries with rescuing ancient texts, recopying them, and then taking them back to Europe to replace the texts burned during the
Community
Debbie and I have been visiting our daughters and their families between Christmas and New Year. Hope your Christmas was wonderful and you spent it with those you love, too. As we close 2007, here are the Confessions of A Small Church Pastor "Top 10 Posts of 2007"
Resources
I added a new feature to the right sidebar -- clips from my blogline that I find interesting. Click the post title to go directly to the original post on the original blog. You'll find stuff about trends, culture, church, resources, and mostly things I like. Hope you
Community
Click thru these 100 photos of storefront churches in Brooklyn. The church is alive and well and being reinvented by lots of people in contextual ways. Very encouraging. New expressions of church are happening in lots of places and cultures, and these are as authentic as you'll find.
Creativity
This is the future and it is now. Thanks to Larry Lessig's blog for the link. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPK9u9ZcGGY&rel=1&border=1]
Community
A walled garden is a site or company that offers content only to its subscribers, who have to "come inside the wall" to get the content they want. The old AOL was like that -- you had to subscribe to get access to their content. But information wants
Culture
Time posted an interesting article, What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith, last week. Sam Harris, author of the best-seller The End of Faith, and doctoral student in neurology at UCLA, has published a new study of how the brain responds to faith questions. Interestingly, there is little difference between
Culture
A Christmas goose. Ask Andrew Jones about his... Today's mashup topic is Christmas. Timely, huh? See what you can do with these -- * Tall Skinny Kiwi has a delightful post on his Christmas goose. I'm pulling for the goose myself. * Out of Ur has more on
Community
A pastor appeared on Fox network's Greta Van Susteren show Monday, and revealed that the missing 4th wife of ex-cop Drew Peterson told him that Peterson admitted killing his 3rd wife. Former Westbrook Christian Church pastor Neil Schori told "On the Record" that he was "
Community
Thanks to Tim Hyde of LivingOS for this link to animoto.com. Click thru to see the 30-second video I put together using animoto.com -- it's a 30-second tour of our work with the Boys and Girls Club including the dedication of the new community center. Take