“Perhaps the contrast between spiritual and human reality can be made most clear in the following observation: within the spiritual community there is never, nor in any way, any “immediate” of one to another, whereas human community expresses a profound, elemental, human desire for community, for immediate contact with other human souls, just as in...
Over the last ten years or so, I’ve rarely read a book all the way through. I’ve given most books the college- or seminary-read; I read them just enough to get the point and most of the details then put them down and move on to another. Both college and grad school required that I...
Amazon.com offers a way for individuals and organizations (commercial or not) to open up their own aStores. These aStores are user-created bookstores stocked with content we want to push. In my case I’ve added books to categories I’m most likely to discuss here on the blog- anything from photography to cooking to Christianity. When you...
So what happens when we start looking at our networks for Malcolm Gladwell’s three personalities? In The Tipping Point, Gladwell offers three uniquely important types of people in the spread of ideas. They comprise the Law of the Few. “The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people...
In 2005 I read an article by David Britt from Harvie Conn’s Planting and Growing Urban Churches. Britt discussed what he refers to as the congruence theory. Within any setting you’ll find different individuals. From a distance these individuals often create a singular demographic, psychographic, or ethnographic. When you look at the individuals up close,...
