One of the greatest insights of the Google-World is the freedom of Beta. A Beta is more than a product not-yet-ready-for-consumption, but a way of thinking, creating, and living. It owns being unfinished. It expects contribution, evolution, transparency. For a long time all of culture was under a spell. It believed in the [...]

 

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What do you get when you put two of the world’s top philosophical theologians, a prestigious university President, and me in a room with a camera?  A fun conversation.
At the American Academy of Religion I was able to join LeRon Shults, Philip Clayton, and Stephen Knapp for a discussion about how theology finds traction in [...]

Theology After Google: Leveraging New Technologies and Networks for Transformative Ministry

We invite you to join us March 10-12, 2010 in Claremont, Calif., for a first-of-its-kind national conference, “Theology After Google.” Thanks to a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, we are able to keep registration costs low, as in 99 bucks.
Who is coming?
Tony Jones, [...]

Jeff Jarvis has done us all a favor.  “What Would Google Do?” is a gift (well one you pay for). Through an engaging, informative, and flat out fun style he takes on his journey to reverse-engineer the company that defines ‘getting it’ today – Google.
This is the first book we are reading\blogging through in [...]

Brian McLaren and Spencer Burke have a great discussion about his upcoming book “A New Kind of Christianity.”  Enjoy!

Deacons, Friends, Ministers, Church Leaders, Theologians, or Just cool people who like God and use the internet.  I am part of putting on this super sweet conference at Claremont March 10-12 and I would love for you to think about coming.  For three days you will think about theology, the church, technology, communication, and all [...]

This is the first day of the ‘Theology After Google’ class and yesterday I asked on Twitter what video I should use to get the conversation moving.  I promised I would share them with the class and figured y’all might enjoy them. So without further ado, here’s the Twitter-gestions…..

Spencer Burke is one sweet cookie.  Here’s is little conversation between him and philip clayton.  They discuss the nature of theology, ministry, education, communication, and other goodies in a google-shaped world.
This is just one more reason you should come to the “Theology After Google” event March 10-12 in Claremont CA.

I’ve been reading up a little on some of the debate over whether or not the emerging church is dying. That is, I just read over Brian LePort’s insightful blog which tends to argue alongside a few other persons that, in fact, the movement is dying.  However, as someone not particularly connected to this debate [...]

Here’s a good article for you all that you might want to spend a little time with. It’s essentially saying that Mainline Churches, because of their social-stances, money, facilities, etc., should be growing. However, there’s a problem:
“George Barna… commented that mainline Protestant churches seem to have weathered the past decade better [...]