Oh dear. I didn’t realize I couldn’t be both evangelical and emerging. According to Out of Ur’s latest post, I have to choose one or the other. It sounds to me like David Fitch is talking about fundamentalism rather than evangelicalism.
Entries Tagged 'responses' ↓
Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Emergents, Oh My!
September 29th, 2007 — responses, christianity
Is My Family Great?
June 8th, 2007 — responses, blogtipping
I let you decide, Dawud Miracle. At your prompting, here’s my photo album response to David Airey’s face behind the blog series, which I’ve reinterpreted slightly as the family behind the blog.
Is God Great?
June 8th, 2007 — faith, responses, podcast, marketing
Yesterday, Mark D. Robert’s comment section exploded, and he wisely chose to remain above the fray, popping in every so often to remind people to be civil.
Why? Mark D. Roberts—I think I can call him my friend, Mark D. Roberts—has done something wonderfully gutsy. He debated Christopher Hitchens on Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall, and now he’s blogging a more thoughtful, less interrupted response.
I finished listening to the debate this morning while I rode my bike to work. (Life is good.) And here is my primary thought.
Meme Week: Thinking Blogger
May 8th, 2007 — responses, blogtipping
This week, I’m doing my meme homework.
Meme Week: To Meme or Not To Meme
May 7th, 2007 — responses, blogging, blogtipping
Over the next few days, I’m going to catch up on my meme homework by answering three memes. All three of them are something more than link farms. Like Dawud Miracle said, the best memes…
create engaging conversation that leads to dynamic and lasting relationships.
In fact, the best ones are creative games that get the juices flowing by answering composition questions for the writer.
1.They provide an occassion.
(I’ve been tagged.)2. They provide an audience.
(Every meme is read by the tagger at least.)3. They provide a simple purpose for a post.
(Answer the question.)
And they provide all kinds of questions. What makes you think? Why are you productive? Why do you blog?
The only thing a blogger has to do is come up with an answer. That’s the subject of your meme post. The trick is to make the subject fit with the content of your blog. I’ll do my best over the next few days.
If you’re like me, you have conflicting emotions about memes. When someone tags me, I think: “Cool! Someone thought of me. I’m not alone in this deep dark cyberworld after all!” then “Darn it! I have to participate in another stupid meme.”
What do you think of memes? When someone tags you, what is your honest first response?
Sharpen the Steel and Do It Do It
April 11th, 2007 — models, responses, poetry, blogtipping
Stay with me on this one.
Robert Bruce caught me in a revealing misread of his latest poem at Knife Gun Pen: Everything Will Conspire to Stop You. My misread says more about me than Robert’s poem, I think. A poetry criticism Freudian slip of sorts.
A Christian Responds to Comments on His Own Blog
April 5th, 2007 — faith, responses, poetry
A discussion started on my Comments on God’s Blog post today. I haven’t commented there yet because I’m not sure what to say. I’m a little out of my league to be honest.
If you don’t want to read a tangent, then don’t Continue reading →
Why Writers Must Dream (But Also Herd Cats)
March 26th, 2007 — writing, responses, blogging
Over at SuccessCreeations.com Chris Cree is talking about Visionaries and Executioners (er, Princes of Execution). He asks, Can you move (or move someone) from one category to the other?
I was born a dreamer. In college I began to forget appointments that mattered. (Like a date with my soon-to-be wife.)
She sat me down and said, “You can’t live like this.”
President of Nelson Believes Christian Publishing Has Room To Grow
February 23rd, 2007 — responses, publishing, CSFF
Yesterday Michael Hyatt wrote this about Christian publishing:
It’s no secret that this channel is facing significant challenges. Everything needs to be on the table. None of us can afford to keep doing something because “that’s the way we’ve always done it.”
Don’t Conform To Platitudes against Conformity
January 5th, 2007 — models, writing, responses, poetry, blogging
I hope I know L.L. well enough to pick on her in my title. I love her post about conformity.
Here’s a different thought. (Does that make me a non-conformist?)
I heard this on a podcast from Stanford. (Either I’m a geek or these podcasts are so good everyone should buy an Ipod just to hear them. Or maybe both.) Robert Sutton talks about creativity and innovation. And he talks about the importance of conformity. Let me distill those thoughts down to two platitudes (but don’t conform to them!):
Creativity leads to growth, but tends to be unstable.
Conformity provides stabilization, but can lead to stagnation.
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