I want more stuff and get me out of here...
Today I spoke with a local pastor for my column about the end times. It’s been said before but I always think this is a sad indictment on the North American church. I think it was five years ago, the two most popular books were The Prayer of Jabez and Left Behind. When you added it all up it...
If you don’t take a job as a prost...
All I can say is, ?!
Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month...
Anti-Community at Starbucks...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Culture on 01 29th, 2005 | 2 Comments
Today I went to Starbucks to read and write. Every once in a while I lifted my head from my book and peered around the room. In this living-room setting I think I was hoping for something more. Maybe I hoped it would gather people seeking something like-minded, a time to speak about things that are...
Adbusters “Are you Ready for the R...
A review of Adbusters Magazine by Duane Smets.
Adbusters magazine is unlike any other magazine because it has no ads. The magazine has become a key participating leader in a revolution brewed by people who call themselves “culture jammers.”
Culture jammers are a collective of “artists,...
A (weak but hopeful) case for evolution...
Posted by D. Goodmanson in Family on 01 28th, 2005 | 2 Comments
I was reading a book in our living room. My wife walked by carrying our 22 month-old son to bed. She had previously asked me to clean the room, which was filled with toys from Gideon and I playing. “You know, the room isn’t going to clean itself,” she commented as she walked by....
Preachers and their Esoteric Language...
Thousands of people who do not know Jesus Christ attend church each week. Most of these people never received the christianese Sunday school training that began with large felt boards. As preachers deliver their messages and the members back-slap each other with approval, many of these visitors walk...
Some Blogs I’ve visted recently...
I went on a blog journey the other day…just random clicks and reading, here are some of the places I visited…
http://odyssey.blogs.com/odyssey/
http://www.challies.com/
http://internetmonk.com/
http://todddennison.blogspot.com/
http://www.themasterspen.com/
http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/
http://calvarywoodstock.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.kennyandkarin.com/patrick/
http://fracturedreflections.blogspot.com
http://sodsbrood.com
http://missionthink.typepad.com
http://www.dashhouse.com/
http://bloggingteen.blogspot.com/...
Rolling Stone denies the Bible...
Rolling Stone magazine declined to run an advertisement for a new translation of the Bible aimed at young people, the nation’s largest Bible publisher said Wednesday.
On Tuesday, USA Today quoted Kent Brownridge, general manager of Wenner Media, as saying his staff first saw the ad copy last week,...
Reflection: Jesus in the Margins...
This book has me thinking about how Jesus ministered to the margins. Somehow, somewhere the evangelical North American church veered left of the road Christ called us to. We need to return to a place where sinners (read all of us, not the ‘unchurched’) can walk into a church and instead...
Christ Lutheran Church...
The column for this week is Christ Lutheran Church…
SD Reader Articles...
The editor of the San Diego Reader has asked me to find home churches, prayer groups, punk rock ministries– the new and offbeat to review in my Sheep & Goats column. Let me know if you have a suggestion…
Cultural Christianity...
I’ve been thinking about how the church raises generations of cultural christians. I saw a definition describing them as:
Most Christians would probably fit within the category cultural Christians. Their self-identification as “Christian” is more cultural and social than religious....
Post, Emerging, ?...
An interesting conversation on 2005 being a watershed ‘year of the emerging church. Here’s a quote from one site:
“2005 will be the year the shit hits the fan. emergent has been around long enough for people to figure out what’s up, or at least the parts they were never going...
Firing Missional Blanks...
I just spoke with a local Pastor in Pacific Beach. For those of you who don’t know about PB, it is a beach community in San Diego filled with surfers, lots of drugs and partying. Anyway this pastor spoke about how PB is a difficult mission field trying to reach these people who are “rebelling...
Jesus in the Margins : Finding God in th...
I just got my hands on a manuscript of Jesus in the Margins : Finding God in the Places We Ignore by Rick McKinley (You may know him as the pastor of Donald Miller Blue Like Jazz). I’m one-third of the way into it but I can already tell this one is going to be a must-read for many of us out there....
Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company. Monk created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew often speaks at conferences and has written for several national publications about how churches/ministries can use the Internet. Goodmanson.com is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs. Kaleo Church is a missional community, multi-site church planting movement in San Diego, CA. More about Drew Goodmanson.
