Preaching, mission, Barth and Duke seem to be themes in my tweets the last month. I have been using Twitter since August to write down micro-blog
posts. I have tried to keep them around the theme of church leadership
like my blog. Each “tweet” is only 140 characters. I try to provide
something of value and not just tell you what I had for breakfast.
Anyway, I just thought I would post the last 63 here so you can see what has been on my mind the last month. See below.
- You can follow me by setting up a Twitter account. You yourself need not actually post any tweets, you can just follow people.
- Or, you can subscribe to my tweets by RSS feed such as Google Reader.
- Or you can just click on my Twitter page and scroll through my posts.
Glossary:
- Tweet: (1) noun: one Twitter micro-blog post. They are 140 characters or less. Example: there are 63 tweets below. (2) verb: to post something on twitter. Example: I tweet about once or twice a day on average.
- RT means Re-Tweet. (1) verb republishing a Twitter micro-blog post that someone else has written because you think it is interesting or worth responding to. (2) noun. A republished twitter micro-blog post.
- H/T means Hat Tip. Noun or verb. It is a way of footnoting that you got your idea from someone else (similar to RT). It is a blog abbreviation but some use it in Twitter as well. It is polite and ethical to give credit where credit is due even in the blogosphere (blog atmosphere) and Twitterverse (Twitter-universe).
- @ means another person who has a Twitter account. They see if you have
mentioned their name in one of your tweets if you put the @ sign. - http://tinyurl.com/ is a website which makes a long url into a short url. For example: http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2009/03/advice-about-duke-thd-and-phd-programs-in-theology.html can be changed into http://tinyurl.com/bkatdf There is a TinyUrl Creator Firefox Add-On which helps you do this easily. You have to be using Mozilla Firefox
which is a great (free) internet browser (faster than Internet
Explorer). In Firefox, once you have TinyUrl Creator installed, you
just go to Tools . . . TinyUrl Creator . . . From Current URL
- I commented on the post today about Karl Barth on preaching and listening to preaching. http://tinyurl.com/c6qqpo
- Yesterday someone did a major rant against bad preaching to which many commented http://tinyurl.com/czrmeq
- RT: @cwdaniels John Howard Yoder's new posthumous book "Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution" http://tinyurl.com/dmm3de
- Jonathan
Wilson-Hartgrove (New Monasticism author) married Jonathan R. Wilson's
daughter Leah. John Wilson no relation (I think). - Jonathan
R. Wilson (Carey theology professor), John Wilson (editor of Books
& Culture), Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (New Monasticism author). - As
Christians we rightly point out ills of "consumerism," but we also have
to explore how proclamation of the good news IS appropriate. - The
"latest" thing in mission and evangelism: lots of students wondering
about the potential for community gardens to foster connections. - Must grade, must grade, must grade.
- May/June
issues of Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Leadership, Rev. and
Men's Health have arrived–almost pulls me away from internet. - RT @cameronstrang "Everybody Loves Raymond is actually a consistently funny show." Yes, we recommend it for couples with in law issues.
- Listening to Coldplay Radio on Pandora. http://tinyurl.com/cpvajq
- Turned in paper. Grading "Maintenance to Mission" papers for Ken Carder.
- Duke guard Jon Scheyer here at the bagel place next to me.
- Regent College's preaching professor Darrell Johnson is moving to First Baptist Church in Vancouver. http://www.firstbc.org/
- Writing
paper for Hauerwas on MacIntyre's Three Rival Versions, Herdt's Putting
on Virtue, and Kerr's Christ, History and Apocalyptic. - @edstetzer But "the average person is in a congregation with 400 people and a budget of $280,000" (Mark Chaves). http://tinyurl.com/cysabl
- The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded a couple days ago. Courageous journalism and fine writing. See http://www.pulitzer.org/awa…
- I am now reading Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by Alasdair Macintyre http://tinyurl.com/dgbpt5 Hauerwas's favorite apologetics.
- I
enjoyed Karl Barth's Homiletics (1932) on preaching and his Evangelical
Theology (30 yrs later 1962) on doing theology. He mellowed a bit. - TypePad @sixapart and my blog now working again. http://www.andyrowell.net/
- @tonymorganlive and @perrynoble parting ways http://tinyurl.com/d9uycs and http://tinyurl.com/cnfle8
- I commented on post by @edstetzer on the state of the church. http://tinyurl.com/dgx77z
- My blog is down. "TypePad blogs are currently down, or loading slowly . . . Please check the Status blog." http://status.sixapart.com/
- Still mulling over Ph.D. dissertation fable http://tinyurl.com/crl746 H/T @jonestony
- Today
is my last class of 2 years of coursework for the Th.D. (which means
little because I have lots of work to do to finish the courses!) - I tried to fix my comparison between Grenz and Hauerwas. http://tinyurl.com/b9so3n
- Jealous.
Charles Campbell (preaching prof at Duke) and Brian Brock (here
visiting) are both doing theological commentaries on 1 Corinthians. - Lots
of connections with Duke with Brazos Theological Commentary on the
Bible: T. Work, Hauerwas, Jonathan Wilson (MnP), Brian Brock (1Cor) - Hauerwas asked Gorman yesterday about participation in Christ vs. habit. N.T. Wright says in http://tinyurl.com/cx3skm that faith is a habit
- I
just noticed all my past tweets are back after being lost for a week.
Wow. Great! I put in help request and a comment on support blog. - We heard about Michael Gorman's new book on the center of Paul's theology yesterday. It is now out. http://tinyurl.com/ca8p3r
- You can search The Word Leaps the Gap: In honor of RB Hays at Google Books http://tinyurl.com/crjfhr
- J. Louis Martyn was at the New Testament colloquium at Duke last night. Some call his Galatians the best commentary ever.
- Excited
about new books coming out from IVP by friends Margot Starbuck
(Hausmann) (July), Marva Dawn (Aug), and Darrell Johnson (Sept). - R.R. Reno in 2006 "Best Schools for Theology" http://tinyurl.com/cr8r83
- R. R. Reno "On Graduate Study In Theology" http://tinyurl.com/df7egk
- R. R. Reno on theology programs http://tinyurl.com/de3wat In 2006, he recommended Duke. 🙂 See http://tinyurl.com/dn9699
- Richard Hays's sermon on his son's ordination http://tinyurl.com/cdut89 last month. Chris is a professor of OT at Fuller Seminary.
- I wish I could do it all: (1) keep up a nice lawn for ball-playing, (2) have a garden, (3) plant flowers, (4) build a treehouse.
- Whatever
happened to gum-chewing? My theory: the oral fixation has changed. Now
no one is far from a coffee cup or water bottle instead. - Bart Ehrman on Stephen Colbert http://tinyurl.com/d4olp2 See Ben Witherington's 2 part detailed review http://tinyurl.com/dl7glb
- Ok. This is a known issue of missing tweets. http://twitter.zendesk.com/…
- It says I have 398 updates but they are not showing on my page. Annoying.
- Where are my tweets?
- From 1947 to 1969, nearly 20% of the American population moved every year . . . only 15% in 2000, 11.9% in 2007. http://tinyurl.com/c2krpj
- I commented on Jimmy McCarty's post The Role of the Academic Theologian http://tinyurl.com/dxah9x with a long quote from Barth's Evang Theo.
- Sunday Walter Brueggemann speaking at Duke Chapel (the church on campus at Duke University). Audio/Video at http://tinyurl.com/69rrsa
- Discussion about emerging church (88 minute video) btw @jonestony @scotmcknight @therebelution DeYoung H/T @cwillz http://tinyurl.com/chm9ab
- Gary Burge gives a positive appreciation of the work of Kenneth E. Bailey in Books & Culture. http://tinyurl.com/dhllz7
- Note also J.I. Packer's nomination for Christianity Today book of the century: Barth's Church Dogmatics. See http://tinyurl.com/cag5z7
- “Karl Barth is an eccentric evangelical not a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” My seminary professor J.I. Packer H/T http://tinyurl.com/czhmn5
- I'm
still here–have been reading lots of Barth, Bonhoeffer & ethics;
leading Acts Bible study; grading papers; and enjoying boys and wife. - Corrected link to audio for Hauerwas lectures (Mar 8-9).
http://tinyurl.com/c9oaf8 - Audio for Stanley Hauerwas's Grenz lectures (Mar 8-9) are available free online at the Carey website at http://tinyurl.com/dzpa84
- New blogpost: How to read Hybels. Also I put 2 quotes from Barth on exegesis in the comments of earlier post. See http://tinyurl.com/d8o6ns
- I review Busch's biography of Karl Barth and list some other biographies of theologians at new blogpost: http://tinyurl.com/d8o6ns
- Stanley Hauerwas engaged Richard Hays's criticism of him regarding Scripture. I like them both. See my comment http://tinyurl.com/cylyx3
- Lots of good apologetics talks at http://www.veritas.org/medi…
- Many students in Ken Carder's course had aha moment about rural and small-town settings reading Tex Sample's book http://tinyurl.com/codjwm
- If
I could think about grading papers as "commenting on blog posts" maybe
it would be more fun. Or more seriously like Mt 18:15 and Rom 12. - Thinking about writing "a theology of grading papers" to procrastinate from actually grading papers. 🙂
- Karl
Barth's 14 vol Church Dogmatics is 8,000 pages. Barth tried to write 8
pages per day (Busch, 373). Compare TNIV Bible at 864 pages. - Duke Divinity School has posted their Fall 2009 courses http://tinyurl.com/d3hghg Richard Hays teaching Romans, and OT in the NT, etc.
2 replies on “Preaching, mission, Barth and Duke: recent Twitter micro-blog posts”
Wish I could take that Hays course. Will you be taking it?
Hope to see more posts about what you are learning in your Hauerwas course.
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