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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Rhett Smith on October 23, 2008
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. [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]