DISQUS

as danny puts in his apology post, i'd say its not francis that is a sellout (though his book publishers might be happy with him doing all the conference work he is doing) but to me, from the white anglo male side, he's one of those christian leaders that translates well from an ethnic culture we generally do not understand. lets face it, the likes of catalyst or other super church conferences are many times all anglo & majority male. i'd say its we that exploit the african, female, asian, native american leaders that translate well for us.

i once walked through opryland hotel here in nashville (a known destination for conferences) and there were three christian conferences happening at the same time. 1 was my own tribe's evangelism conference 2 was a national childrens ministry conference 3 was described to me as a holy spirit conference. my own tribes was mostly male & white in presenters, the childrens i didn't check out, but the holy spirit one (which i was particularly fascinated by) didn't have a single white male presenter in their midst and i'd argue that there were not many mainline/evangelical white leaders in attendance.

we like the people that relate to us, its on us more than it is chan.. my opinion

my sympathies and prayers for you and your fam john.
shalom

one of the glazed over questions that is excellent to know, is who is in control of the news. if kutcher or some other celeb puts their stuff out there it can't be gossip turned up by a poparazzi or tabloid mag. it generally just doesn't take..

however, a regular person puts something online then it becomes a phenomenon with all the major news taking it on as a news story and a life of its own. a rather fascinating parallel behavior

funny..

that's excellent john!

that's some crazy stuff. maybe a bit too far. kinda forces you to ditch those initial start up conversations with a good looking lady "what's your name? damn! sorry, i wasn't looking at your boobs. honest.. hey wait! come back!"

you can go and volunteer with the youth group tonight. that will more than make up for staying in this morning. &:~)

i'm sorry to hear of the troubles from the day. sorry to hear of your disappointment from the book signing. i remember a mtn top day where i got word of staff person in an accident and another not being allowed to return to work and all i remember wanting to do was the stick my face in the couch and sleep. which i think i did, then got back on with things

congrats! you are my twitter idol!

seriously i wasn't sure how it would work until that first barcamp nashville and got connected into a group that 'crossed the town green' and sharing their lives.

our connectionalism might be a good place to examine. jay voorhees has some great posts on how we are not actually connected. some of the blogs on the methoblog are quite infrequent or do not participate in the great community. that's okay, we are happy to uplift them when they do put out content.

viral needs a bigger audience and we are the early adopters and a small group of people. 250 blogs don't even make up the clergy voice in most conferences. let alone laity. but, a lot of people are looking at our individual stuff, so we are participating by linking back and forth.. which is something i think we need to recapture from early days of blogging (before twitter linking or google reader sharing/starring) people who haven't gotten into that realm are missing some element of connection that we share.

hey dj, our church does a lot of strengths training & workshops for families, individual members, and the community. one of our primary teachers is youth leader for our youth community and does an exhaustive strengths exploration with our graduating seniors.

not sure if we are a strengths church, but we sure emphasize it a lot.

i usually get photography ads. i would think my wife would get the same cheating ad, so that might keep her in check knowing that i have access to keep track of her. &:~)

not to spam your comments, but the clip i linked was the scene i showed at youth, but i clipped out the part after amen. it gets too senseless and abrasive for me after that to show as a youth illustrations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuAUI_0knfk

i used the clip once to start up a discussion over the various views of Jesus & what people expect of Jesus. i like samuri Jesus myself.

correction, ninja Jesus battling samuri

not sure where you want me to comment, so i'll throw in something old school. i am still waiting to see the benefit of friendconnect. i think for something to be successful it has to a have a simple and easily understandable benefit.

its mike rayson, he's a really nice fella who sees his time here as a missionary.

thanks mitch, i was going to use friendfeed to do the same, but haven't had the chance to update my site and tweak the code. i'll be returning to this bookmark. shalom, -gav

as a youth pastor who uses facebook, the birthday feature is gold for me. i'll try to not be a jerk.. are we even friends on fb?

+ we are going to charge you more money for a half page piece of advertised content.

happy i could contribute. thanks for yours and everyone else's work in barcamp. its hard to compare experiences from last year to this, so much has changed, both have been excellent and something my wife and i look forward too.

glad i was able to help contribute to the cause as well. early child education is my thing. so i know its importance

too late on the biz cards. us youth ministry types don't carry them for some reason.. guess teens just are not impressed by them. i'll try remember for next time. &:~)

now the bar napkins, that, i can do.

thank you. i missed this and heard about it. laughing hysterically

my lone fall aim weekend i ended up spending most of my time with the children of the home we were working at. partly cause the other adults were so consumed with the work that i needed a break from them. i tried so joking around and they didn't get it, so i just played around with the two kids of the house. lots of fun, lots of trampoline. so you might get your interaction you are used to.

its okay blake. we won't hate on you too much. &:~D