Written and posted originally on NewsMuse, the DisciplesWorld blog. I’ve been asked a number of times to speak to various churches and other leadership groups about young adults, their relationship to organized religion, and their take on – and use of – technology. Unfortunately, church and technology tend to generally mix about as well as the football team and chess club. Neither the two shall meet, right? Who needs technology to find God, after all? Sure, a few of us... Read more
Check out samples from my two CD projects, both spoken word/Jazz and acoustic singer/songwriter recordings, now available online at CD Baby. Read more
Listen to the fifth audio chapter from my book, "PULLING THE GOALIE: My Lesson in how Babies are Made...Again," called "Violent Creation." Read more
Chapter 4 of Pulling the Goalie now on my podcast Read more
If you have not yet check out my new podcast, you can get directly to it at http://christianpiatt.podbean.com/ or you can index it and subscribe in iTunes, podcast alley, podcast pickle and the like by searching “Piatt.” Please spread the word to others who may enjoy this. Thanks, Christian Read more
Faith in fallow times I don’t do winter well. Some call it Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D. – seriously), but I just get melancholy. Aside from being from the south where winters are only notes on the calendar to help tell time, days shrink in winter until I’m waking up in the dark and driving home in the dark. What’s worse, everything dies. We all know spring is coming, but we only get to it by enduring the fallow time that... Read more
My latest NewSpin column from PULP NewSpin Why Pueblo doesn’t have a mayor City Manager Dave Galli abruptly took a leave of absence recently, the first step in what is expected to be his resignation. Though the rest of City Council was tight-lipped about the talk behind closed doors, Ray Aguilera, who lives in one of the poorest districts and is term-limited, was happy to expound on some reasons why Galli is being edged out by council, including... Read more
Here’s an article that was recently featured on the WorshipConnection website about nontraditional church governance. When is a church not a church? My wife, Amy, and I started Milagro Christian Church four and a half years ago in Pueblo. We began in our living room, gathering around our coffee table or huddling by the fire with a handful of friends, trying to imagine what this thing called “church” might look like some day. I remember one week when... Read more
I finally set up my own podcast. You can get to it at the site: http://christianpiatt.podbean.com/ or you can subscribe through iTunes, or check out the player below: Powered by Podbean.com Read more
I posted the first audio chapter of my new book project, titled “Pulling the Goalie: My Lesson in How Babies Are Made…Again” a few days ago, and I just finished producing chapter two today. You can check it out on my main MySpace Page in the audio player by going to www.myspace.com/damienstribe. Check it out, share the link with others who might enjoy it, and let me know what you think. Christian Read more
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