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Current Podcast Subscriptions

PatApril 3, 2007

I’ve done this before and had some interesting comments, so I’ll update my list of current podcast subscriptions.

I don’t always listen to all of these - that’s a lot of stuff - but I find that these are the ones I’m usually checking out at least every now and then. I also listen to podcasts at night when I’m going to sleep, or to get me back to sleep after waking up to check on Brogan (often I have a hard time falling back asleep, but if I’m hearing somebody else’s thoughts in my heads, that works out better).

Christianity/Spirituality

2006 Prayer Conference (Dutch Sheets) - 4 episodes, not a recurring podcast, but interesting stuff on intercessory prayer
Aaron Klinefelter - a Vineyard guy into simple church, monastic life, and technology. Aaron’s cool.
Alan Creech - simple, organic church done in a Kentucky accent. I am looking forward to meeting Alan one of these days.
Emergent-UK Resources - run by Jason Clark,a collection of really good recordings - interviews, teaching, training, etc. N. T. Wright, Todd Hunter, Dallas Willard, Conrad Gempf etc. One of my favorite resource podcasts.
Kingdom Rain - by Don Williams, one of the Vineyard movement’s best theologians; the podcast just started and hasn’t been updated. Hope it gets regular and meets my high expectations.
Meditations from Carmel - Short, < 5 min, readings from classic spiritual works by the discalced Carmelite nuns of St. Louis; I just discovered this and have only heard one episode
Monastery Podcast - Recordings of the worship services of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Benedictine nuns. If you’re interested in hearing how Benedictines pray the psalms, this is a good resource. I listen to this at work; it’s calming, peaceful and I find it very helpful.
OhanaProject - sermons from my friends at Ohana Project, a church in Seattle
Pray as You Go - 15 minute contemplative prayer pieces from the Ignatian tradition. I absolutely love this podcast and can’t recommend it highly enough. They follow the church calendar, so if you want to know if it’s some saint’s feast day, etc, you’ll found out here.
Vineyard Church Sutton’s Marriage Course - Jason Clark, whom I admire greatly. Haven’t actually listened to these yet, but I’m hanging on to them. Just noticed that they have a leadership podcast also, and one on spiritual gifts using Winn Griffin’s “Spiritual Gifts for Dummies” book, which is really good.
Wiredparish.com

Sports

Baseball Prospectus Radio - baseball analysis and interviews by two of the guys with BP.
Elise and Ian On Demand - KJR-AM evening hosts
ESPN Radio: Best of Mike and Mike
ESPN Radio: Dan and Keith
Seahawks Insider from the Tacoma News-Tribune - the best local newspaper’s best columnist posts his own audioblog, and sometimes interview recordings and other goodies

Culture

Ask a Ninja - if you don’t know, just go check it out
Bono - the Rolling Stone Interview - RS’s recordings of the interview which became a fantastic cover story last year.
Delta Park Project | The Big Show - Pop culture and gentle humor
Delta Park Project gets Lost - The DPP crew does a Lost recap’
Fly With Me - the personal podcast of Joe Dion, a major airline pilot. Really entertaining.
The Starbucks Experience - leadership thoughts from Joseph Michelli, author of a nifty little management/business book by the same title.
LostCasts - the best Lost podcast for my favorite watercooler conversation show. Motto: “We read the forums so you don’t have to.” :-). Great analysis, recaps, spoilers, all the stuff that adds flavor to a great show, and 80% of which I wouldn’t catch on my own.
NPR - Fresh Air
This American Life

Music

Irish and Celtic Music Podcast
Pacific Northwest Celtic Music - a regular sampling of musicians from my geographic area in the US

Photography

2 Minute Photoshop Tricks
Digital Photography Tip of the Week
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
LightSource Studio Photography
Photoshop QuickTips
Pro Photography Show
TPN - THe Digital Photography Show

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Recapping the Missional Matrix event

PatMarch 26, 2007

I’m an introvert. One of the things that means is tht it takes me time to process my thoughts; I can’t just respond on the fly. (That made it REALLY difficult for me when I was an engineer at Microsoft, which used to survive on rapid decisionmaking, highly conflict-engaged meetings and hallway conversations).

So now, a day after the Missional Matrix event, I have a few thoughts.

- I really enjoyed hearing the speakers. I hope you’ve enjoyed my running summary, but really - go listen to what they said; I didn’t catch it. I’ve heard Todd speak before and like his approach a lot; I am fortunate to be able to interact with Rose fairly often and continue to call Rose and Rich my mentors and to a large extent heroes. I’ve read Scot McKnight for quite a while but never gotten to learn directly from him. That time was very helpful for me.

- My main response to the event: I feel reinforced. Nothing made me say, “oh (&*%((, I really need to change my ideas/actions after realizing that”. I think that’s probably because we’ve been thinking in this space for a while. But it was really nice to again hear Rich and Rose (this time, Rose) tell the story of their church and what being missional in service to the local community means to them.

- Blogging: One of the sets of questions to Scot McKnight was around why he blogs. Scot’s easily one of the most prolific, and effective, bloggers out there - especially in this space. Hearing him talk about blogging as a teaching form was encouraging to me.

I initially blogged so that I could have a writing outlet; and also so that I could tell the story of what it’s like to plant an emerging, missional church in the suburbs. I’ve tried to share as much as I reasonably could about my own experiences and feelings in that journey. But since that journey isn’t the current journey, and I haven’t wanted to publicly process my own stuff as much (though I still do…) I’ve had less to say for a while. But I was re-energized to blog again after hearing again from Scot.

- Relationships - This was the most fun part for me. Meeting old friends again; talking for a few minutes with my friend Rachelle, whom I dont get to see enough of; talking with my classmate Ben for a good amount of time, etc. Truth be told I didn’t seek out any new relationships. I found that when I was introducing and describing myself and my interest in the topic, I had a lot of raw-ness. I’m still hurting, probably will be for a while. I’m introverted anyway, right - so it’s hard for me to seek this out, even though the networking is really helpful.

- Suburbia - the topic of being missional in suburbia came up again in one of the breakout sessions. I’m not sure if that was the intended topic; I just noticed Shannon joining in a conversation so I went to where she was, and they were fully into the “can you do this (specifically, like Vineyard Community Church in Shoreline) model of church in suburbia”. The initial thought was ‘no’ (I still think you CAN, I just don’t know how ;-)).

I was pleasantly surprised when I got back home to see that Todd Hiestand had just posted this excellent paper on that topic. I want to talk more to Todd about this; I think he nails the challenges of mission in suburbia. I want to think more about countercultural suggestions to those challenges.

- What’s next? continues to be a good question. There are steps ahead. I still feel inspired to lead a church in my neighborhood; what and how and when and who and all those things are still huge open issues. Doors are opening for me to focus a bit more on teaching. At some level I know that’s a calling for me. I need to write more on this issue, but for now that’s enough.

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9 Core Practices

PatDecember 10, 2005

The new book entitled Emerging Churches by Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs has been getting rave reviews in the blogosphere. There’s a nice summary of the book’s 9 Core Practices of emerging churches here. I await delivery of my book.

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