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Doesn’t this look fascinating? I know the Trinity isn’t always the most comprehensible of Christian spirituality ideas, but the older I get the more I’m drawn to it. Ian Mobsby’s newest literary offering looks like a must-read; let’s see if we can get it more widely published in the U.S. while we’re at it. In the meantime LuLu has it here.

Related, Ian has a U.S. & Canada book tour gearing up; try and see him here.

PS: Ian is part of Westminster, London’s Moot Community. You should listen to their podcast and read their blog if you don’t already.

…taking a break from the Future Headlines for a moment. This one is real.

Hark! The Singularity Is Near!

(Guess we’re living in an age of spiritual machines…)

Wow, that’s only 17 years from now. Well for one, I’ll have a 17-18 year old daughter! That’s scary. Presuming we survive the Mayan Earth Changes, that is. : ) (Hey, just because I don’t buy into popular Christian end-times views doesn’t mean I can’t give the Mayans their fair shake at captivating our culture with the doomsday-prediction game!) I’ll be 43 years old. I’m taking the exponential rate of technological change as a given. Just how much will be changed, I’m not able to speculate yet. (I need to read more Ray Kurzweil!) My guess is we’ll begin to have more integration with machines than we do now—I might be in the minority here, but this is an integration I’ll welcome with open arms, if it enables me to read, process, and recall more efficiently. As indicated above, I hope a typical day in 2025 will involve inexpensive, clean, and renewable energy. I hope to eat a meal that was 85% grown within 100 miles of my home. I hope that I’m purchasing less, and that what I am buying comes in either less packaging or more biodegradable packaging. If at least some of these innovations (or returns) are not met in 17 years, I shudder to think what kind of world we’ll be waking up to.

Earth’s Mightiest Alternative Christian Links Portal suffered a setback this weekend, as its owner (ie, me) failed to secure its three-year domain name renewal. This couldn’t have happened at a worse time, as I was in West Virginia with my dad visiting relatives post-Thanksgiving, a family tradition.

Continue reading ‘…and, we’re back!’

What do I do when I’m a lazy blogger? I post a video from YouTube to discuss. Bright Eyes. Arc of Time. It’s good. Discuss.

PS: I’m not lazy, not really. I’ve been a very busy boy. One who is learning time-management skills, slowly and surprisingly painfully.

For the first time in nearly two months I’ve updated Sites Unseen, removing some dead links and adding over 150 new ones. We now have over 6,000 of the best websites of the alternative Christian web. Soon we’ll be getting a redesign by the inimitable John O’ Keefe, but for now it’s all there. Check it out!

I wanted to let you know about something we at The Ooze have cooking tomorrow night. It’s free, it’s new media, and I thought you all might want to join in. It’s a Soularize Live! preview tomorrow (Thursday) at 9pm Eastern (6 Pacific) with Spencer Burke and Ori Brafman.

Continue reading ‘Starfish, Spiders, and a World Without ‘Powers’’

Wikiklesia: Voices of the Virtual World Volume One is now in paperback! For those of you who don’t like staring at computer screens to read your books, now you can see the collaborative writing project that involved 40 of us over a two-month period of time–in convenient fully portable paperback technology . 100% of the proceeds from this book go to the Not For Sale anti-slavery initiative, so please–buy ‘em by the truckload. They make for edifying reading *and* doorstops, if need be.

In related news, Paul Walker has been blogging through the entire book on his excellent Out of the Cocoon blog. This past week, Paul arrived at my chapter–Zeitgeist and Paraclete at Play–and does some wonderful interaction with it. Check it out!

Holy cyber-faith, Batman! How is Christian spirituality taking shape in our web 2.0 era? What does collaborative technology say about Perichoresis (the triune dance of the Godhead) and ecclesiology (ways of living for the church gathered)? Where will be be five or fifty years from now? These are the questions addressed by an innovative new collaborative publishing endeavor put forth by the Wikiklesia Project entitled Voices of the Virtual World. I am privileged to be a contributor–my chapter is entitled Zeitgeist and Paraclete at Play. An eBook edition is available now, and a paperback edition will be up very shortly. I’m particularly stoked because all the proceeds from the sale of this hot little tome are going straight to the Not For Sale Campaign, an anti-slavery action and awareness group that I serve with as emerging churches coordinator. So buy/download a truckload of these, please!

I have to mention that I’m writing among alt.Christian giants with this book Continue reading ‘Holy Ghost in the Machine’

…or do you? Those who place hope in the risen Jesus Christ hope for a resurrection continuing a ceaseless existence. And now, there are others who have reason to hope for bodily longevity, thanks to a (nano)technological acceleration known as the Singularity. When humans transcend biology it won’t be as if we are immortal, says scientist and historian Ray Kurzweil. It will be, though, that we can choose to live as long as we want. I’ll be exploring his bioethics and technological hope more soon, but now for more mundane matters… Continue reading ‘Life Sucks, Then You Die’