300,000 books are published every year in English. That’s a lot. And getting any attention for a book is a difficult task. If an author pastors a megachurch or hosts a radio program, it helps. If not? Well, then you’ve got to get a bit creative about getting the word out about your book. With that in mind, Doug Pagitt, Mark Scandrette, and I started talking about doing a summer book tour to talk about our books and get the... Read more
I’m thrilled to make available chapter one of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. Read it, and let me know what you think. The book is now available online and at major bookstores. The New Christians – Chapter One Read more
So, a few months ago I received the “page proofs” of The New Christians. That’s the final pass that an author has to make corrections, and, since the pages have already been typeset, only minor corrections can be made. That’s because the editors don’t want to repaginate the whole book. So, if you delete a sentence, you have to replace it with a sentence of similar length. So here’s the truth: when I got to the end of chapter 2,... Read more
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Two events of note: Rev. Debbie Blue reads from her new book, From Stone to Living Word, at Common Good Books on Friday, Feb 15 7pm (Location: Virginia Street Swedenborgian Church, 170 Virginia Street, St. Paul, just down the street) Carrie Newcomer singing at the Cedar Cultural Center. Check ’em out! Read more
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Things I’ve eaten in the last two days that I’ve never even heard of before: Waffles covered with chicken hash Tomato aspic Fish pudding I liked two of the three. Phyllis blogged about our time together HERE. You might want to add that feed since she’s blogging for the first time (though only through the 40 days of Lent). Read more
Yesterday was great. The people of Calvary Church are fantastic, and I got to spend the afternoon with Phyllis and Sam Tickle — even got to visit their farm in Lucy, TN. More soon… Read more
Yesterday, by overnight mail, the first copy of The New Christians arrived, thoughtfully giftwrapped and with a note from the team at Jossey-Bass who worked on it. It’s beautiful! It came off the presses about a week early, and it will start shipping to bookstores later this week and early next week. Woooo Hoooo! Read more
Last winter, I was part of a fun emergent gathering in San Francisco at Bruce Reyes-Chow’s church, Mission Bay Community Church. During the lunch break, a group of us walked a half-mile to Sara Miles’s church, St. Gregory’s. On that walk, and on the walk back, I talked with my old friend, Dieter Zander. It was so hopeful and so affirming to talk to Dieter, who has been married and been in leadership for ten years longer than I. With... Read more
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