December, 2009

Links for December 16th

Advent Conspiracy Church Group Fights Christmas Shopping – TIME

"Christians get all bent out of shape over the fact that someone didn't say 'Merry Christmas' when I walked into the store. But why are we expecting the store to tell our story? That's just ridiculous."

tags:

activism

advent

advent-conspiracy

Reclaiming the Mission » Why is the Emergent/Missional Church So White?: Soon-Chan Rah’s Next Evangelicalism and Why It Doesn’t Go Far Enough (in Exposing White Western Cultural Captivity)

A review of Soong-Chan Rah's book The Next Evangelicalism examines the possibility that the book does not go far enough.

tags:

church

emerging

emergent

race

A List Apart Survey, 2009

December 15th, 2009

Each year since 2007, A List Apart has produced a survey for people who make websites.

Links for December 14th

24 ways: Incite A Riot

The HTML5 spec has changed the meaning of the cite tag, but it's wrong. Jeremy reminds us that if we don't implement part of the spec, it becomes fiction. Ensure that bad advice becomes fiction.

tags:

html5

html

Links for December 13th

charity: water | project map

Use Google Earth with the link on this page to view wells and images of charity:water projects. Great way to really see what is going on.

tags:

poverty

water

activism

Links for December 11th

Advent Reflection: Salvation Came From The Cut « Musings of a Postmodern Negro

This beautiful Advent reflection from 2008 shook me last year, and reading it again reminded me that it should be here.

tags:

jesus

advent

Bottled Water Madness | Missio Dei

If you ever drink bottled water, or ever think about drinking it, you should read this. The more people understand this, the better.

tags:

environment

water

Art in my coffee!

Beautiful redesign of Art in my coffee, a gallery of latte art from around the world.

tags:

coffee

design

inspiration

Waiting

December 11th, 2009

Since I began to follow Jesus, I have always had a difficult-to-describe relationship with Advent.

Links for December 9th

the Jesus Manifesto » The Wonder of Christmas

"In the event of Advent, God has spoken and still speaks. As Barth puts it, 'All abstract thought and metaphysics, everything one might know and say of God as Thought, Power and Deed is summed up and completed by the fact that God has spoken and still speaks. Yes, God!'"

tags:

jesus

theology

advent

Reclaiming the Mission » Tim Keller’s “Country Parson”: The Small Dying Urban/Suburban Church Vs. The Small Country Church as a Training Ground For Mission

"These urban/suburban churches are in a death spiral amidst the vestiges of post Christendom urban/suburban centers. The small country churches are in many cases hanging on and in some cases thriving in a still largely Christian friendly rural culture. I suggest these small dying urban/suburban congregations could be the place for renewal in our times."

tags:

ministry

church

mission

Experimental Theology: Notes on Demons & the Powers: Part 8, The Inner Aspect of Material Manifestations of Power

I haven't linked to all the posts in this series, but they are all worth a read. I disagree to an extent, i that I do actually believe that angels and demons are real beings as well as the essence of institutions, but I can still completely respect the admonition to unite the material and spiritual as the writers of Scripture did, that these posts give us. This one, especially, has powerful thoughts on what the role of the church toward the powers should be, and I think it applies regardless.

tags:

spirituality

psychology

theology

Links for December 8th

24 ways: The Construction of Instruction

"Relly Annett-Baker turns our minds to the oft-neglected subject of website copy, and how the small things you say can have a big impact on your customers, revenues, fame, fortune and luck with the opposite sex."

tags:

user-experience

content-strategy

design

A List Apart: Articles: Letting Go of John Hancock

With Acrobat and PHP, folks who need to send contracts and proposals to clients can have them digitally signed and submitted.

tags:

business

forms

php

A List Apart: Articles: The Content Strategist as Digital Curator

Great thoughts on how the process of museum curation can inform the ways we approach content on the web.

tags:

user-experience

design

content-strategy

Links for December 7th

24 ways: Type-Inspired Interfaces

Beautiful article on creating layouts and interfaces that are inspired by typography.

tags:

design

typography

Links for December 6th

24 ways: HTML5: Tool of Satan, or Yule of Santa?

"Bruce Lawson takes us a little further down the rabbit hole of HTML5. This week we’ve seen a glimpse of some of the great stuff coming, but how much of it can we start using right away? Luckily we have Bruce on hand to explain."

tags:

html

html5

24 ways: Front-End Code Reusability with CSS and JavaScript

"Trevor Morris runs us through how JavaScript can be designed to take its configuration directly from your markup. Using the model of a jQuery plugin, learn how adding a simple class name can control how your code functions."

tags:

design

jquery

javascript

css