The latest edition of the JoPa Productions email newsletter, the JoPanator, was sent today. I wrote the following article briefing churches and ministries about how the new Facebook group function might affect them: Last week, Facebook announced that they were launching a new version of groups. It can be difficult to keep up with all of the changes in Facebook and Twitter, so here’s a quick primer on the latest change. Facebook has come under scrutiny for privacy concerns in... Read more
Fot a little hump day fun, I’ll be running each of my books through Wordle and posting the results here. First off, Postmodern Youth Ministry (2001): Read more
Yesterday was both Columbus Day and National Coming Out Day, so I saw many tweets linking the two as embarrassing elements of American society, one past and one present. I’m actually not much of a doomsayer on the latter. While the recent violence and bullying of GLBT (and suspected GLBT) persons in high schools and colleges is abhorrent, it is minor in comparison to other social evolutions through which America has gone. The Civil War was, of course, notoriously bloody. Prohibition was... Read more
If that’s what you’ve heard, then you really should check out the fascinating post from Nadia Bolz-Weber whose online support of a friend resulted in an amazing outpouring of care for a man who wasn’t so interested in Christian faith…until now. Here’s how it begins: Richard came to the Christian faith at House For All Sinners and Saints. He really never saw himself ever becoming a Jesus follower, but you know…it happens. Day before yesterday Richard’s son in NYC became gravely... Read more
Took a couple of long-range wing shots today, but the bag is empty. Albert didn’t seem to mind. I’ll try again this afternoon, after we take out the docks and shut off the water to the smaller cabins. Read more
Yes, that headline will strike some of you as earthshattering as this: For it seems that Jürgen Moltmann comes out with a new volume about as often as the phone book. However, for some of us, a new book by Moltmann is a pretty big deal. Moltmann’s latest, published last year in German and this year in English, is titled, Sun of Righteousness, ARISE! God’s Future for Humanity and the Earth. I’m just reading it now as I’m writing chapter... Read more
Up here in the barren northland, there’s been a dust-up in the ongoing struggle of the church in America to accept GLBT persons. This time it’s the Catholic church, the St. Paul & Minneapolis Archdiocese of which recently mailed tens of thousands of copies of a DVD opposing gay marriage to its communicants. Of course, the DVD is timed to arrive as we approach mid-term elections. From where I sit, social issues are playing a negligible role in these elections. I don’t... Read more
This blog is not the first to have an ongoing conversation about what it means to have a blog, whether it is public or private space, and what constitutes appropriate behavior herein, but the conversation around these issues last week was robust. More on that below, but first I’ll tell you what happened Friday. With a minor amount of internet sleuthing, I discovered that Darius lives in the Twin Cities and is employed as an engineer. I sent him an... Read more
This weekend marks the opening of waterfowl season in Minnesota. Due to soccer, baseball, and Irish dance with the kids, I won’t get up north to hunt until the middle of next week, and it’s likely that there won’t be many ducks left. Sure, there’s a cold front coming over the weekend which will push ducks south, and once ducks have been shot at, they tend to get pretty skittish about landing into a group of decoys. But the bigger... Read more
I’ve made the decision, but I have to work on my dissertation today. So that post is coming on Monday. Read more
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