This week Leonard speaks from his new book, “The Church Of The Perfect Storm” part 1 of a two part podcast. This episode was recorded at the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist church in June 2008 where D.G. was sitting. This was the talk we heard Dr. Sweet give before we did the previous interview. Be sure to listen for the thunder going on in the background, it was just great background noise for the talk’s topic that he gave. Here are a few links from the conversation:

Here is a short summary of Leonard’s Book The Church of The Perfect Storm:

The Church of the Perfect Storm is a Sweetly edited anthology of chapters on the rough waters of our times, the ways in which the church should and can ride into the storm, how to not only ride out the waves, but do effective ministry in these raging waters.  Sweet has played with this analogy often before (although it is out of print, we have some of his fascinating Aqua Church left) and his first chapter is wonderful introduction to his take on the times.)  The last chapter, by the way, is a great sermon on ways to react to wild waters of postmodernity and post-Christendom, chart notes for stormy seas.  As he often reminds us, the most dangerous place for boats during a storm is in the harbor.  We are called to launch out into the deep, knowing Christ is with us helping us enjoy the ride.

Don’t forget to go buy his books, as well:
    

This week Leonard speaks from his new book, “The Church Of The Perfect Storm” part 1 of a two part podcast. This episode was recorded at the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist church in June 2008 where D.G. was sitting. This was the talk we heard Dr. Sweet give before we did the previous interview. Be sure to listen for the thunder going on in the background, it was just great background noise for the talk’s topic that he gave. Here are a few links from the conversation:

Google.com

Who is Gutenberg?

Don’t forget to go buy his books, as well:
    

This week D.G. joins Leonard Sweet and Gary Gibson to sit down in a downtown Starbucks in Louisville, KY and talk about Praxising and Leonard gets the “Dreaded 10″….questions that is. This Episode is just  a little over 30 mins. long double the previous podcast’s length, but D.G. just did not want to split up the conversation, and besides he is a “Google Generation” not from the “Gutenberg Generation”. While Kevin is working hard this month on his doctorate, D.G. runs the show and has some help with his Senior Pastor, and we hope you enjoy the discussion. Here are a few links from the conversation:

Off The Map

Joe Myers

Monks.org

Google Earth

Skype

Talkshoe

Twitter

And being inspired by Len I decided to make the card he talked about in the “Dreaded 10″.

This week is the final of the three part interview with Karen Sloan! Kevin and D.G. finally get to the dreaded 10 (questions we ask of everyone we interview) and Karen talks about her experiences while living int he West Bank and hang’n out with Yasser Arafat and praying for peace! Yeah it surprised us too! And hey have you taken time to listen to the end, there are outtakes on almost every episode…just keep listening to the end, the door will close to let you know you have reached the end of the podcast! Blessings! Again a huge thanks to Karen! (You rock Girl!)

Here is a few books that Karen suggested that she is currently reading:

Karen Sloan continues the interview with D.G. and Kevin this week with part 2 and talks about her love of prayer. Karen talks about how she (a protestant) fell in love with the liturgy of the hours and the qualities of a man she finds attractive! And she finishes this part of the interview with suggestions on how to bring the Liturgy of the Hours into your faith community.

“The Orthodox, they know they are right?” ha ha ha

What is Benedictine?

What is the “Liturgy of the Hours”?

What is the Dominican Order?

What is an Antiphon?

This week begins a three part interview of author and friend, Karen Sloan. D.G. and Kevin thoroughly enjoyed the great discussion and topics from this interview! If you would like to know more about Karen you can read her bio that InterVarsity Press has on her, but just do her a favor and go buy her book, Flirting with Monasticism: Finding God on Ancient Paths, or read her great article mentioned in the podcast @ Relevant Magazine, ““Monastics Among Us: How New Thought and Ancient Faith are Colliding.”. Yeah that’s right she is a bigwig and she still loved us enough to come on the podcast.

Oh, and did we mention that she is also a leader in the Emergent/Emerging Church movement traveling the country networking for presbymergent ? (Big wig, heh) Enjoy the show.

School(s) of Conversions: 12 Marks of New Monasticism

Irristable Revolution

The Holy Longing: The Search for Christian Spirituality

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

The Politics of Jesus

A Community Called Atonement

Eric Kieb’s blog: the Eclectic Soul

And yeah the picture is part of the joke found in the podcast, heh.

Here is a quote from Doug that someone wanted him to repeat…and it is a good one:

“I think that Christianity is fundamentally a people movement that we should understand in a social networking theory, not a belief system that we distribute through institutional applications and franchising models.” 

Oh, and here are a few links to some of the things Doug talks about in his session:

Doug Pagitt

Social Networking Theory

Facebook

Friend Wheel (an application on Facebook)

Apple

Tony Jones

Lilly Lewin

N.P.R.

N.A.S.A.

And Don’t forget to buy Doug’s new book:

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