Oct 23, 2008
Dabbling in Sports, Reading, and Quite a Lot of Writing
I’ve been a bit swamped in the evenings of late and so many blog post ideas are falling by the way side… So here’s a little list of the things that have been on my mind of late.
- I just finished reviewing Solomon Summaries, a neat Christian cliff note available online. Try it for free now.
- Mike Morrell has an incredible post on house churches and the emerging church. While not a carbon copy of his experience, I entered into the emerging church scene via house churches. I joke that I’m emergent only by the hair on my chinny, chin, chin, since facial hair is my only solid claim to the emergent crowd. No ministry with a trendy name. No cigars. I’m not a beer drinker. No tattoos. No Mac. No Ipod. No fancy worship video software. You get the idea. Just facial hair.
- My friend JR Briggs is launching a new community in Lansdale, PA. We had a great chat over Google this morning. It’s exciting to see how God is working.
- I’m all for Obama winning the election, but how the heck did Barna come up with Obama taking a 13% lead???
- And last but not least, my hometown team, the Philadelphia Phillies are playing games with my heart again by going to the World Series. Will they leave my heart in scoring position again? As of 1993 Joe Carter was rounding the bases after his series-winning home run. I hope this year is not a repeat.
- Frank Deford has a great commentary of Philly sports and why you too should root for the Phillies.Yes Tampa Bay fans, even you!!! Here’s a bit of his commentary:
“You see, not since the 76ers won the NBA in 1983 has a Philadelphia team won a championship. There are 11 other U.S. cities that, like Philly, have a team in all four major team sports — and all of them have had champions in this quarter-century.
Well, add it all up — and if the Phillies lose the World Series to Tampa Bay, Philadelphia teams will then have failed to win a championship in exactly 100 straight seasons.
Of course, given that the Phillies last year became the first and only team in all humankind ever to lose 10,000 games, a mere 100 seems like small potatoes. The Phillies are to losing what the Zimbabwe dollar is to currency.”
My husband just bought a Mac, and he has a goattee.
Except we don’t go to an emergent church. Oh well.
I’d like to point out that I was the one to say I want a Mac the next time I need a laptop (which hopefully won’t be for a few more years). I was the one who snuck into the Mac section of Best Buy.
My husband ho-hummed it at first. And now he’s getting the Mac? Where’s the justice?
Chuckled over the facial hair and the macs…so very true! But wait, there’s one more opportunity: do you have dark rimmed trendy glasses? That’s an easy add-on…
How are things going with the book tour? Thanks again for letting me participate. I really enjoyed it.
No glasses. I wear contacts. Not a big glasses guy. Sorry to break the news. Though it’s a good point to keep in mind if my emergent insecurities get the best of me…
Success is a murky concept for a blog tour, but I’m really pleased with how it’s going. The reviews are generally positive, and some really like how the book is written, which is a blessing to me. I’m not offering up a lot of new ideas, I’m just putting a lot of ideas together in a new, more accessible way. Many readers seem to be catching on to that. I’ve also had a number of people express their desire to pick up the book after reading the reviews.
So all things considered, I’d say it’s been a success. I’m about half way through my first print run, so I think we’re doing alright. We still have a bunch more bloggers to go, so the final verdict isn’t in yet.