a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Happy Halloween! he he he I really need to quit going to the Emergent No blog. About once every two or three weeks I’ll take a visit, usually to get a good laugh. But today, they just pissed me off. But as we’ve seen, they are using 1,000 year old Western Romanism as well as [...]
This is the first of a series of blog posts where I’ll look at why there’s an emerging church. With each issue, I’ll include a look at the practical matter of church structure and how it relates to the issue. Knowledge The way people view knowledge has changed. There is a questioning of what we [...]
This nice 7-layer emergent cake frames the conversation well for those entering the emerging church conversation* from the established church. Of course, I’m not too shocked it stopped short, neglecting the large and growing presence in the Church who have cast off the structure of the establishment as well. I suggest you read the entire [...]
Scott Williams writes about the “perks” of being a pastor, which often amount to laziness as everything is “work” for the pastor. This touches on a little bit of the content of my latest podcast. I talked about how when you are vested in the system, it is hard to detach. Well, Scott Williams post [...]
At first, I was really bummed to learn the first iTunes phone was going to be on Cingular, the cellular carrier I recently abandoned so I could actually go places and talk on the phone. Verizon has been everything I wanted it to be. Now, I go some place, and in my own home, and [...]
Well, it looks like my favorite CMS, Mambo, has undergone a “fork.” When an open source projects has differing sets of developers wanting to take it in different directions, the project forks. So the development continues, but as a user, you pretty much have to choose a fork. I guess the best way to explain [...]
I want one! This pillow seems to also have practical usage. It will monitor your snoring at different pillow heights so you can see how it affects your snoring. Speaking of snoring… I should be right now. It’s 4:30 a.m. Cali time, and I’m still working. Blah. But at least I had a breakthrough on [...]
I just thought it deserved a title post. I don’t know how I missed it yesterday. I watched all of the extra long Cowboys-Seahawks game, and they didn’t report on the dramatic comeback… unless it happened the few times I was out of the room. At any rate, on Sunday my third favorite team won… [...]
Learned a couple of things about the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) today… For one, the site is owned by Amazon.com. I really didn’t know that. The other, is that it has a Power Search page. Or at least the article I’m referencing says it does. I’m going to start checking that out as I move [...]
http://www.alanhartung.com/phpfiletrace.php?a-different-perspective-12.mp3 Another podcast! It’s true, another episode is out… Vested in the Establishment Show notes: “A Different Kind of God” chapter available for download – please post your critiques at this post Weeds on Showtime has become my number one search term! Check out the Weeds post here Sponsor a podcast! For more information on [...]