Tim Keller video: what if we read the Bible as Jesus intended?

Missional Church from Wilson Kam on Vimeo.

Video: ethics and emerging technologies

Since church is an emerging technology,
and should be ethical...
...IEET(Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology)'s Mike Treder interviews Jamais Cascio:

"My name shouldn't even be connected with spirituality."

"My name shouldn't even be connected with spirituality."
-Eugene Peterson

Scrabble changes rules

"Scrabble's new rules will open up the game to a new generation of quasi-literate Us Weekly readers."

-Colbert:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Scrabble Allows Proper Names
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News

time, eternity: The Death of Adam

“The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention. In certain context the improbably is called the miraculous. What is eternal must always be complete, if my understanding is correct. So it is possible to imaging that time was created in order that there might be narrative—event, sequence and causation, ignorance and error, retribution, atonement. A word, a phrase, a story falls on rich or stony ground and flourishes as it can, possibility in a sleeve of limitation. Certainly time is the occasion for our strangely mixed nature, in every moment differently compounded, so that often we surprise ourselves, and always scarcely know ourselves, and exit in relation to experience, if we attend to it and if its plainness does not disguise it from us, as if we were visited by revelation.” -Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam , HT: The Search, BRETT MCCRACKEN

Group memory

Paul Watson:

David Watson put an image up on the screen. “I want you to take a look at this image.” After a few seconds, he blanked the screen. “Now, describe the image.”

People called out various things they remembered. David allowed them to continue, just until they started repeating things that others said already. He put the picture back on the screen. “Could any one of you remember everything in this image?” A collective, “No” swept through the audience. “Yet, together, you manage to remember most of the details in this painting. Now that you’ve heard everyone list what they remembered, I’ll bet that you remember more of the image than you did before we talked about it.”

David looked around the room, “Group memory is better than individual memory. And, as groups recall what they remember, their collective memory becomes the memory of the individual. This is one of the many reasons groups, and the group process, are essential to starting movements.”..

-Paul Watson, continued

Michael Frost video: Understanding the Shift

HT: Brad, from his post:

The Importance of Understanding the Post-Christendom Shift