Category: Emerging Church
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Death-Wish | Don’t Demonise Cho
The release of Cho’s video all over the media is just another example of technology being used without proper restraint, not unlike the shooting itself. It’s a horrific violation of those suffering. In a previous post, and in the comments that followed, I was trying to probe a link between these killings and the spate…
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RSS – Is Your Content Purified to the Point of Sterility?
In a piece on the myth of ‘Internet Neutrality’ The Guardian quoted Professors Marshall Van Alstyne and Erik Brynjolfsoson, who, way back in 1997, wrote that, "With the customised access and search capabilities, individuals can arrange to read only news and analysis that align with their preferences. Individuals empowered to screen out material that does…
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Happy Easter!
Be gone cobwebs,dust, don’t gather.Air, don’t stilland stones don’t settle. All that creeps and steals,skulks, sneaks and slithers,retreat! There is life here, reignited,burning, heat and light. No word can be said,but the stone still cries out,and retreats in holy fear. Air rushes in terror to escape,but is inhaled again,in, out, in, out.A leaden chest rises,…
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] It’s Not the Winning That Matters, It’s… | The End of Strategy [5]
Just got back this afternoon from darkest Wales, where there was no internet, no mobile coverage, and virtually no radio reception either. Just a wonderful beach, and an old clap-board cottage. Great medicine. Nice to come back to some good debate though. I just wanted to write a final post in the series (may be)…
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] Game Theory: Jesus Loses | The End of Strategy [3]
In the previous two posts I’ve looked at the figures of Paul and Judas and proposed that both of them, in their separate ways, were ‘strategists’. They wanted things done, wanted to give Jesus an amazing opportunity. And they had ideas about how to do that. Judas and his catalyzing a revolution; Paul and his…