Design · Culture · Spirituality

December, 2008

Links for December 10th

Economy and Business: Debate on the Queen's Speech, Monday December 8 2008 « Empire Remixed
Incredible speech given by N. T. Wright to the House of Lords. This is the entire transcript.
tags:
politics
economics
culture
theology

Things I’ve Done

December 9th, 2008

Inspired by Julie and Mike:

Links for December 8th

24 ways: The IE6 Equation
Looks at ways to determine how much support web designers and developers should give to Internet Explorer 6. Asks questions like, what is meant by support?
tags:
web-standards
browser-issues
ie
browsers
javascript
css

Design of registration forms

December 8th, 2008

Recently, I got an invite to Flixster, which apparently is a movie review sharing website.

Decomposition of Christian power

December 7th, 2008

To finish my series, I want to put the things I've looked at together a bit more. I've tried to show how the problems in how historical problems in how the church has looked at politics, culture, and pneumatology have led, in some ways, to current trends in American evangelicalism.

Links for December 5th

The Missional/Attractional Divide: Dan Kimball Unpolarized : Subversive Influence
"I say we live in a post-Christendom context, but here's a point that doesn't get mentioned: Christendom, like modernity itself, isn't gone. It's still alive and well in its own context, and in those contexts it doesn't appear that it's going anywhere anytime soon. That's why attractional churches still work… just not in every context or with every people group. There are some people groups who are repelled by it."
tags:
evangelism
church
culture
missiology
mission
How do I avoid feeling like God is absent? » Jen to Edit » Open Theism » Q & A » Responding to Objections » Warfare Worldview » Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)
Great explanation of how we can look at the actions of God and the actions of others in proper perspective.
tags:
theology
greg-boyd

On FileZilla

December 5th, 2008

I've noticed that, interestingly enough, my most visited post for this entire year is this one on how to share a FileZilla profile, in which I showed how to use the same FTP profile with my Linux system and my Windows system. This particular knowledge has proven to be invaluable to me.

Links for December 4th

Three Questions for Attractional Practitioners who Question the Fruit of Missional :: Reclaiming the Mission :: The Weblog of David Fitch
Questions directed toward those who wonder whether missional church has fruit. They strike me as extremely well-thought questions that can really enhance dialogue between these forms of church.
tags:
culture
church
mission
missio-dei
missiology

Links for December 3rd

2012 : Jesus Manifesto
Great thoughts on the precipice to which our economy has brought us, and how we as the church and we as individuals can respond. It syncs with a lot of things that I think are being spoken to me in the last few weeks, especially.
tags:
economics
community
church
culture

Blog Comment Day 2008 Results

December 3rd, 2008

Blog Comment Day 2008 is, of course, upon us. I commented on a few blogs, some that I had never seen before and some that I read regularly but have never commented on, and one where I comment fairly often. As some others are doing, here are some posts, thus far.

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About the Designer

Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.

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