Archive for February 9th, 2004
the cluetrain manifesto
If businesses take our humanity seriously, maybe there’s hope … 
I found the following heart-cry quote .. gripping!
Ministry to Children
Tonight, I need to facilitate a session where we get those involved in BLC’s ministry to children on the same page and same direction. While I was driving I couldn’t help but think about Gareth who’s 16months old now. The big question coming from a very personal level is this … “What kind of Children’s Ministry would I send Gareth to?”. From a more leader’s perspective I’m asking “What kind of Church are we as we learn to help children along their spiritual journey?” (of course, I can’t help but also think about families and the church as a whole now as well).
The first thing that surfaced in my mind honestly is what I don’t want to see … and that’s of course some “harmful” ideas I’ve seen practiced today and in the past which until now I not only not comfortable with them, I have an immediate distaste for them. And yet, I wondered again and again, “Am I too critical?”, “Maybe I don’t understand?” , or “Is this just a personal baggage?”.
Surfing & stumbling into 
gave me some framework, ideas and thoughts to “focus” my engagement with this crucial aspect of Christian life and ministry.
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New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram has made the complete text of his New Kind of Science (a 1000+-page treatise on the way that virtually everything in the universe can be explained with cellular automata), which he self-published a couple years back with some of the squillions of dollars he’s earned on his seminal Mathematica software program, available for free on the Internet ~ via Boing Boing Blog
I read the preface and will probably find some time later to check this book out. I like free books online … it’s good for people like me who find books very expensive nowdays and tough on the budget! But, the attraction for me in reading this book is it sparks in my mind what a New Kind of Theology could be … or a New Kind of Ecclesiology or a New Kind of Missiology … or a New Kind of Spirituality, the list goes on … (that was sparked after reading McLaren’s The Church on the Other side and A new Kind of Christian)
