economics
Today is Sunday. Palm Sunday. CNN reports that the Federal Reserve, the United States Treasury Department, and JP Morgan Chase have worked out a deal for JP Morgan to buy the troubled Bear Stearns investment bank for $2/share, down from its high of over $150/share last year. Plus,
Congregation
An interesting article by Kevin Kelly got me thinking about church. Church, I believe, wants to be free. Not free, like "Free Willy." I'm not talking about an imprisoned behemoth that wants to leap the channel net into freedom, although that might be another post in
Congregation
On November 21, I posted If gas hits $4/gal, what will your church do? Comments indicated some thought it was not going to be a problem, others were keeping a close eye on economic developments. This week 5 economic items of interest all converged: 1. Low consumer confidence. According
Community
From around blogdom, some good ideas that have translation potential for churches: 1. 20/20 powerpoints -- Kevin Kelley points to a new trend among business presenters to limit their presentation to 20-slides that flash for no more than 20-seconds each. Total presentation time: 6-1/2 minutes. Do I hear
Creativity
Eden's Path - detail of our house from a painting by Debbie. Debbie and I created a new blog to record our journey toward a simpler life. Eden's Path features the practical things we are doing to spend less, enjoy life more, and live in the
bless the world
Yesterday I posted Ten Marks of the Church-as-Abbey. One of the characteristics, economics, plays an important role because the ancient celtic Christian abbeys were self-supporting while providing economic transformation to the community. Today, tall skinny kiwi posts about the fourth sector -- groups that want to change the world while
Community
Models for how we should do church are not in short supply. Seeker-sensitive, purpose-driven, emerging, missional, traditional, liturgical, ancient-future, and the like all have their merits. I am really interested in the church-as-abbey concept myself. I have read extensively about the early Celtic Christian church and find it intriguing and
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
Creativity
Now that I've solved some technical challenges, like getting my blog aggreagator going at chuckwarnock.com, I'm back to snipping trends that have church implications -- here are the latest that caught my attention -- * Pangea Day -- a day when film brings the world together
Community
CNN reports that crude oil prices hit $99/barrel yesterday and are headed to $100/barrel and up. Gas is already past $3-a-gallon in much of the US. A gasoline transporter told me that people appear to be conserving more. So even at $3 a gallon the price is having
economics
You have got to see this slideshow from PSFK, a trend watching company out of the UK. They nail some of the emerging trends in the consumer world, which has big implications for church. Piers Fawkes identifies these five trends changing the consumer world: 1. Good food. Healthier, fewer ingredients,
Lectionary Yr C
Eternal Economics Download mp3 of Eternal Economics. Luke 16:1-13 The Way Things Really Work In the best-selling book, Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, the authors examine several interesting economic problems, like "Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?" The conventional wisdom is that drug