The week off

Sorry for the unscheduled hiatus. I know all 1 of you were really disappointed. I have always wanted to try to journal or write about my life, but never kept up with it. This blog is the most consistent I've ever been, so I was a little disappointed that I missed a whole week. Work was crazy and I was too tired to come up with good stuff at night-- I don't want to put up filler crud just so I can say I posted.

We'll get back on schedule this week. We'll talk about some Star Trek for Nerdy Thursday, some baby pictures, maybe some Civ3 and Photoshop fun, and some Henri Nouwen on Wednesday- maybe.

Your programming schedule

I'm going to try and be a little thematic around here, mainly to have some order to my OCD brain. Since I am not doing this for "fortune and glory" (Indiana Jones, anyone?), I don't want to limit what I write about, but for my faithful 3 readers out there some continuity may make things more understanding. The randomness will still appear from time to time, but I'm going to try to include at least one entry a week in these topics, although the days are not set in stone:

• Photo Monday- interesting, funny, pretty pictures I find on the internet tubes.

• Emerging Wednesday- Since Wednesday nights are usually associated with church here in the South, I'll talk, muse, or link to something about post-church issues/questions/topics.

• Nerdy Thursday- something from the Nerdery; computers, movies, games, gadgets, comics, who knows? It will be nerdy.

The other neat thing about this is that the labeling feature will allow to search for posts that only fall under these topics, so some of my blogging threads will stay continuous. I will also be going back to old posts and apply the new labels just to add some depth to the categories.

My emerging journey

My friends (see the Blogs of our Lives on the right) and I have formed a house church, or simple church if you prefer. This is a radical departure from church as I know it, and a 180 degree flip from most of my ministerial training.

So I am starting an in-depth search of what church is becoming in what is called the "emerging" or "Emergent Church" movements. Some of the big names that have weighed in are people like Brian McLaren (his book A Generous Orthodoxy has generated alot of buzz), George Barna, and others.

I have caught myself wanting to constantly link over to several blogs that I am finding to be very helpful in my search, but I don't want to get redundant in the link posting. So I have a link list to the right called the "faith/emergent conversation", listing several blogs I am regularly reading. They are all worth checking out, but I especially would like to mention Jason Clark's blog, it has been very informative and clear.

More on this as it develops....

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