Dale Lature: BookBloggin'

Give Me That ONline Religion

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:01:55 GMT

	General Online Religion/Spirituality Resources --Journals, Research Data & Other Interesting Things
	Chapter One: A Revolution in the Making: Spiritual Wonder Goes Online. --Cross-section of links introducing the phenomenon of online religion
	Chapter Two: The Ultimate Diaspora: Religion in the Perpetual Present of Cyberspace --Links to William Gibson, Tim Berners-Lee, the Bishop of Cyberspace and more.
	Chapter Three: A Taste of Forever: Cyberspace as Sacred Time --Transhumanism links, Wertheim article on Cyberspace as sacred space, interview with creator of The Palace.
	Chapter Four: Cyber-seekers: Stories of Virtual Pilgrimage --Judaism, Christianity, Neopagan links.
	Chapter Five: Cyber-Virtue and Cyber-Vice --The Dark Lair of Infinite Evil, the Bible Curse Generator, Sell-Your-Soul Online...
	Chapter Six: Virtual Shines and the Cult of Celebrity --The Cult of Keanue Reeves, Lady Di memorials, Elvis/Buddha, the Star Trek Nexus
	Chapter Eight: Virtual Prophets: Instant Global Access and the Apocalypse --Heaven's Gate, Marian Apparitions, the Center for Millennial Studies, Jerry Falwell, the House of Yahweh, Temple Mount Faithful and more.

GMTOR published by Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, A Wiley Company

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:30:51 GMT

If anybody has seen my notice about my move to http://theoblogical.org , please let me know by commenting something here if you get the time. I want to see that somebody is getting this. And anybody who has tips on anything else I might do to notify people, I would appreciate them.

Book Bloggin' on Call to Commitment

Mon, 02 Sep 2002 14:21:10 GMT

Call to Commitment, and just about anything written by the late Elizabeth O'Connor, are my absolute favorites. O'Connor was a beautiful writer. Her stories of the COS people so wonderfully communicated in an accurate way the "atmosphere" and spirit of the activity and community at COS, and surrounding many other communities I have since come into contact with who have had their lives touched by the continuing legacy of this community. I would love to get back again before Gordon is gone. He shows no signs of such, at least as of the last I heard, and I believe he is around 80, and still sharp as a tack, and some kind of preacher. I've met him on about 3 occasions, and he's such a wonderful, warm person, and I have so much to be thankful for that he and COS have had so much to do with.

I lost a hardback copy of Call to Commitment about 5 years ago when I moved from Cincinnati to Nashville. I had been involved in a group calling themselves "Servant Leadership School" (based on the one started by The Church of the Saviour in Washington DC) for about a year and a half when I got my present Web Development job. Of course, all of us were always talking about various things COS (Church of the Saviour) and I had lent my copy to somebody long before I knew I was to be moving. That person passed it on to another, until time had passed and I had moved and forgotten all about having lent it out. I just recently ordered a paperback copy for 8.95 from Pottter's House Books (along with the Gordon Cosby book quoted from in a blog that I quoted from on Sunday-----fill in the name later when I remember------)

Journey Inward, Journey Outward is the next book

The Other Side -- Recommends: By Grace Transformed

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:21:32 GMT

"Gordon Cosby is a remarkable preacher-prophet whose life ministry has been re-visioning the church and what it asks of those who believe. By Grace Transformed (Crossroad, 1999) is an unusual, powerful collection of his sermons. The church, says Cosby, should be defined by commitment and the Spirit. His five decades of experimenting at D.C.'s Church of the Saviour have resulted in models of discipleship that are practical, real, and hope-filled. Convincing because Cosby and others have lived them out, they evoke the spirit and power of the early church. This is a book packed with vision."

Food for Blogging: By Grace Transformed

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:46:57 GMT

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Last week I ordered a couple of books from Potter's House Book Service: A copy of "Call to Commitment" and By Grace Transformed. I decided to get a paper back copy of Call to Commitment to replace the hardback I lost track of a few years ago as it made the rounds around a small "Servant Leadership" group I was involved with before I moved to Nashville in 1997.

By Grace Transformed is a collection of Gordon Cosby sermons from 50 years of his pastoring The Church of the Saviour. As I read this, I'm sure there will be food for much blogging in the days ahead.

Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:18:35 GMT

Journey Inward, Journey Outward continues on where Call to Commitment left off, with more stories and journeys of the COS community and their ventures in what it means to be Church. After that, The New Community tells some later tales, and a short bok that sort of touches on the stories told in all three of them, Servant Leaders, Servant Structures, which I received permission from the author herself to put online in full on my website (that was 1995).

Major League Baseball News

Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:53:02 GMT

Casey's HR comes right on time

By Chris Haft / MLB.com




	Sean Casey (right) hugs manager Bob Boone after hitting the game-winning home run in the 10th inning off Astros pitcher Ricky Stone. (David Kohl/AP)

CINCINNATI -- Major Leaguers daydream, too. So when Sean Casey waited to hit in Sunday's 10th inning, he suddenly recalled a conversation he and Reds teammate Adam Dunn had a few days ago.

Blank stares about Community on the Net

Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:36:33 GMT

From xian. reminds me of some of the disconnect I've been sensing from people I know....maybe not for the same resaons, but there is some "not for me" kind of stance, that perhaps the level of discourse is seen as too trivial or too heated (again, based on little or no looking for the "right levels", sometimes because they don't know how, sometimes because they don't take the time to look, and depend instead on articles they read (in those print things they read that complainabout the level of discourse on the Net)

Fear of an Internet Planet. Suladog, a Livejournal friend of mine who's a film writer, told a little story about the mixed feelings some of her peers have about embracing the potential of community through the Internet:

... two very close friends...one is the creator of a couple of hit TV series .. the other is a journalist for national magazines ... we were talking about the internet and I mentioned all the journaling that's out there ... and how I have online friends ... and how people talk and debate and argue and laugh and share about all sorts of things online ... and I was getting blank stares.

Turns out these two never venture online, short of research or ebay. The idea of writing posts or letters and getting to know people online made their jaws drop. .............. These were two people obsessed with their age, and complaining about a culture that they felt they were being left out of, when in fact they'd locked the door on the inside. Read it all: Fear of an Internet Planet
from [suladog] via [Christian Crumlish (xian): metablog]

List of Articles from We've Got Blog

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:21:04 GMT

Anatomy of a Weblog
Been Blogging- Web Discourse Hits Higher Level
Blogged Down in the PR Machine
The Blogger Code
Blogging as a form of Journalism
Blogma 2001
Building an Online Community
Credo of the Web Log Writer
Deconstructing You've Got Blog
The Four Noble Truths of Blogging
Good links vs. Good discussion- A metafilter discussion
Here Come the Weblogs
In the trenches with a weblog pioneer
The Internet is not killing off conversation
The Kaycee Nicole (Swenson) FAQ
Let Slip the Blogs of War
The Libera Manifesto
Linking 1-2-3
More About Weblogs
Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man
Put The Keyboard Down and Back Away From The Weblog
Ten Tips for Building a Bionic Weblog
The State of the Blog
Weblogs- A History and Perspective
Weblogs- A New Source of News
Weblogs- Lessons Learned
Weblogs (Good God Y'all) What Are They Good For (Absolutely Nothing)
We Didn't Start The Weblogs
What the Hell is a Weblog and Why Won't They Leave Me Alone-
Why I weblog
You've Got Blog

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:39:04 GMT

Radio Comments for Stories.

RADIO NOW ALLOWS COMMENTS ON STORIES

How to use Story Comments: Blunt Force Trauma]

Architecture Matters: The Rebirth of Public Discussion

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 02:41:45 GMT

Ozzie observes (bold type is my emphasis):

"blogs accomplish public discussion through a far different architectural design pattern. In the Well's terminology, taken to its extreme, you own your own words. If someone on a blog "posts a topic", others can respond, but generally do so in their own blogs, hyperlinked back to the topic's permalink. This goes on and on, back and forth. In essence, it's the same hyperlinking mechanism as the traditional discussion design pattern, except that the topics and responses are spread out all over the Web. And the reason that it "solves" the signal:noise problem is that nobody bothers to link to the "flamers" or "spammers", and thus they remain out of the loop, or form their own loops away from the mainstream discussion. A pure architectural solution to a nagging social issue that crops up online."

Reds bite the big one in the first of three BIG BIG series

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:58:27 GMT

Reds get pitching help again, but too little , too late? They're in the process of getting swept at home by the D-backs, the first in a set of crucial series that the Reds have frankly bit the big one all year. They're something like 40-20 against teams with losing records, and almost reverse against teams over 500. That won't get it done. This stretch has been considered by many the wake-up call and make-it or break-it sequence for them, and it has started horrible, with the Reds managing only 4 runs in 2 games against non-Johnson/Schilling starters, games the Diamondbacks have not fared well AT ALL this year....that is, until now. Johnson has 11 k's and 2 hits surrendered through 7, and it's 6-2 D-backs. It was a good run , guys, but it looks like 'yer goin' bye-bye. I'll keep watchin' though, since it's baseball, and anything can happen. I just won't be holdin' my breath.

Final Arizona 7 Cincinnati 2
Standings Now:

National League Central (from CBS Sportsline standings)
	W	L	Avg.	GB	Home	Road	East	Cent.	West	L10	Strk
St. Louis	66	52	.559	-	36-22	30-30	9-15	34-24	15-9	7-3	W 6
Houston	63	57	.525	4	34-25	29-32	16-14	37-30	5-7	6-4	L 1
Cincinnati	61	58	.517	5½	30-29	31-28	12-12	33-23	14-12	5-5	L 2
Pittsburgh	52	69	.430	15½	26-36	26-33	8-4	31-36	10-20	2-8	L 6
Chicago Cubs	51	68	.429	15½	27-34	24-34	10-14	24-35	11-13	4-6	W 1
Milwaukee	42	78	.350	25	25-34	17-44	6-21	23-34	11-13	3-7	L 3

ESPN.com: MLB - Reds acquire left-hander Estes from Mets

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:55:55 GMT

Reds pick up Estes for stretch run

Associated Press via ESPN

CINCINNATI -- With their playoff chances slipping away, the Cincinnati Reds acquired starter Shawn Estes from the New York Mets on Thursday for two minor leaguers and two players to be named.


	Estes

The Mets also agreed to pay the remainder of Estes' contract -- $1,524,592 -- because Reds ownership won't increase the payroll. Estes, 29, agreed to a $6.2 million, one-year deal in February.

Belief.Net provides a broad-based view of Left Behind

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:25:00 GMT

Belief.Net has added to the discussion the additional discussions neccessary to step back from the Left Behind- type Science Fiction view of what is known in Christian theology as "the parousia" and provided some addtional , and much needed information about what the "non-fundamentalist" crowd believes about the "end times scenarios". Much of what is taken in the "pre-millinneal" (the view of most fundamentalists) to be "forecast" or "references to parousia events" is, in the view of many mainstream theologians, taken completely out of context (which is the way many fundamentalists read the Bible anyway........no, not all, and not all the time, but whenever it suits them. 'Course, they'd say that about us too!)
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Truth: Evangelical Christians believe the Book of Revelation is a blueprint for end-times events

Metaphor: A Bible scholar says the Book of Revelation is one part prophecy and one part literature

Manifesto: Liberals say the Book of Revelation is a political protest document

It's also a place to link to all kinds of ways to "buy stuff" from this "LeftBehind Store". How come there aren't links to books about the subject, from varying viewpoints? I was drawn to Belief.net's area becuase I wanted to see some dialogue about the subject. Surely there have been books about the approaches to apocalypse in various factions? Articles, at least.

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:59:15 GMT

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Another good book to add to my list of read books (and one which I have re-read, and actually "introduced" me to Cluetrain: Futurize Your Enterprise by David Siegel, who also wrote "Creating Killer Web Sites")
The book is a great example of some real-life possibilities of The Cluetrain concepts put to work Siegel is a Web developer who began finding that companies who need Websites were all oft all too eager to make websites without caring who their customers were. A high recommend for anybody who read Cluetrain (or not) and wants to take the next step to begin asking how actual Website projects allow the company to participate in the conversation.

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:05:47 GMT

Some interesting "house-church" type gathering stories, from the Alan Creech guy referred to by sara in the previous blog earlier today

midwest greenhouse | blog

Here's their scoop:

Our goal is to equip one another so that we can all carry out God's will for our lives in a more effective way through the creation of new and innovative faith communities.

The Greenhouse provides a supportive environment for Christian leaders who are choosing to function according to the ancient apostolic role of the New Testament. It is for leaders who aren't just interested in planting a church -- but rather, in churching a whole city and a region. It's for those who are willing to get their hands dirty in the soil of lost people in the harvest. It's for those wanting to make a globalocal impact from the ground up.

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:22:42 GMT

mysterious disappearing Comments links feature fixed ....

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:17:47 GMT

The Soul of Cyberspace (Jeff Zaleski)
Cybergrace (Jennifer Cobb)
Designing for Community (Derek Powazek)
Community Building on the Web (Amy Kim)
The Great Good Place (Ray Oldenburg)
The Digital Estate (Chuck Martin)
Growing Up Digital (Donald Tapscott)
Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and The Virtual University (unread)
Hosting Web Communities (Cliff Figallo)
Shifting Realities (David Lochhead)
Theology in a Digital World (David Lochhead)
eBrands (Phil Carpenter - Harvard Business School Press)
NetWorth (Hagel and Singer)
NetGain (Hagel and Armstrong)
God Talk in America (she quotes me in her Cyberspace Chapter)
Being Digital (Nicholas Negroponte)
Road Warriors (Daniel Burstein and David Kline)
Life on the Screen (Sherry Turkle)
Digital Literacy (Paul Gilster)
Data Smog (David Shenk)
Release 2.0 (Esther Dyson)
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Deeper (John Seabrook)
NetWorld (David Rothman)
Digerati (John Brockman)
Internet Dreams (Mark Stefik)

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 22:56:26 GMT

From most recent buys and reads, to older , as I see them around me or remember reading and have shelved them somewhere out of view:

We've Got Blog- Been there, read it, will keep a copy

The Weblog Handbook
Read it, returned it --- way too much "filler" for my taste. Why would I want to know how to talk to a fellow weblogger if I ever met them face to face? I think that's outside the expertise that I was looking for in this book

Gonzo Marketing

The Future of Ideas

Small Pieces , Loosely Joined

The Cluetrain Manifesto (bought a couple of real cheap hardback copies at second hand or closeout stores while on vacaton....bought the paperback about a year ago)

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 22:43:46 GMT

Erik Davis' Figments & Inklings from the author of TechGnosis, one of the many cyberspace/cyberculture type books in my Library