From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Saving Christians…

by Rhett Smith on October 31, 2008

Interesting article in Relevant Magazine with Rob Bell on Saving Christians. Here is an excerpt: In the intro of your new book, Jesus Wants To Save Christians, you describe the specific theology you are trying to articulate as a New Exodus perspective. How is this approach to reading the Bible different from a systematic or [...]

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Becoming A Heretic on Church Ministry: The Sermon

by Rhett Smith on October 28, 2008

The Context Last week I posted a blog, Becoming A Heretic on Church Ministry. I was playing off what Seth Godin says in his new book Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us. You can find my review of the book at Leadership Network. Godin says: Challenging the status quo requires a committment, both public [...]

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My Social Media Addiction Update!

by Rhett Smith on October 28, 2008

Curbing My Addiction About two weeks ago I wrote the post, You Might Be A Social Media Addict If……Setting Boundaries On Social Media. In that post I proposed the 10 things that I was going to try to help curb my addiction. Two weeks is hardly an experiment, but I figured if I can’t be [...]

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Where Do You Fall on the Graph?

by Rhett Smith on October 23, 2008

HT: Marcus Hackler

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Despite Rumors of It’s Early Demise, Blogging Is Not Dead…It Is Evolving

by Rhett Smith on October 22, 2008

Is Blogging Dead Yesterday afternoon I read two Tweets from Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst at Forrester. They were as follows: Wired suggests blogs are old hat –call me old fashioned! followed by, What’s interesting is that the Wired opinion doesn’t have a single piece of data in it’s article –go read Sifry’s state of blogosphere. [...]

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Book Review: Tribes by Seth Godin

by Rhett Smith on October 20, 2008

You can find my book review of Tribes by Seth Godin over at Leadership Network’s book blog. Check it out, Heretics Needed in the Church.

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Becoming a Heretic on Church Ministry

by Rhett Smith on October 20, 2008

Heretic Heretic, the one word that you never want to be associated with you as a Christian or ministry worker. OR IS IT? Rather, maybe we need more heretics. Those challenging the status quo in Church. Just maybe we need to think more unorthodox thoughts when it comes to ministry. (Notice I said ministry, not [...]

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Most Thorough Review Yet of “Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile”

by Rhett Smith on October 17, 2008

Ben Witherington has really outdone himself this time, with one of the most thorough book reviews I have come across of Rob Bell and Dan Golden’s new book, Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile. I’m a huge “fan” of Rob Bell’s teachings and writings, and have even had the [...]

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You Might Be A Social Media Addict If……Setting Boundaries On Social Media

by Rhett Smith on October 13, 2008

Social Media Boundaries A few weeks ago I started talking about boundaries, but as if you haven’t noticed already, I sometimes have a hard time staying on one topic too long. So let me circle back to the idea of boundaries around our social media. Otherwise, what parameters do you put around your social media [...]

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Sometimes Talking Is Better Than Doing…Thoughts by Slavoj Zizek

by Rhett Smith on October 10, 2008

Thanks to the influence of my good friend Wess, I have been doing a little more reading up on Slavoj Zizek. Wikipedia refers to him as a “Post-Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic”…and he’s also a psychoanalyst among many other things. In fact, last week I watched the documentary Zizek on the Sundance Channel. I [...]

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