Adam Shields I have followed the debate over the Emerging church for quite a while. In general I have agreed with many of the criticisms that the Emerging church has had with the traditional church, but I have not always agreed with the resulting prescriptions of where to go after the criticism. Jim Belcher, it seems, wrote … Read more
Update: This is a picture of my kindle in a hot tub. I used it over several days and left it floating once for quite a while. No water in the case. The power button issue discussed below is a very big and very real pain. But if you want a floating/waterproof kindle case, this … Read more
I am up (it is 4 AM) to fly out to my 17th Guy’s Trip. These are about annual trips that 6 of us guys from college take to re-connect with one another an spend some time decompressing. My netbook crashed last night so I cannot type up a few posts on my flight out. … Read more
In many ways I am of the mind that this book probably did not need to be written. It is not that I do not think that we pay enough attention to Christ. But that I am not sure that another book about Christ and the problem of not paying attention to Christ really will … Read more
The Nearest Exit is the follow up book after The Tourist. I read The Tourist early in 2009 soon after it came out but before I started reviewing books here. I rated it as one of my top fiction books last year. These are both spy books. They are post 9/11 spy books, so they … Read more
The Never War is the third in the Pendragon series (not the Steven Lawhead Pendragon Series). I liked the first book (it was free on Audible) and was pretty blah about the second. I would have stopped after the second, but there was a sale and it was only $5 and you know how … Read more
I am a little over half way through my first Overdrive Audiobook. Like my previous review of NetLibrary. Overdrive is a system that your local library system must subscribe to. Luckily I seem to have a progressive library system because they work with both Overdrive and Netlibrary. I thought they were the same system initially. … Read more
Ok, I know I am expanding the reading tools idea a bit much, but as my wife says, “he is a bag whore.” I like just the right bag for how I am going to use it. For my ipad I was looking for a bag that was big enough for the ipad and a … Read more
The Hole in our Gospel and related search strings are consistently one of the top books that bring people to this blog. And Monday May, 31, 2010 is the last day that christianaudio.com is giving away the audio version free. So I thought I would link to two blogs I trust for second opinions. First here … Read more
I posted a book review over at ChurchCrunch. Here is the start of the review: Twitter is ubiquitous. Now it is even a format for books ideas. It seems odd, but as far as I can tell (in my very brief amount of searching) this is the first book made up mostly of a curated twitter stream. … Read more