Sword Saints

Gempfcast

You go on vacation for a couple of weeks and the world goes all topsy-turvy on you. Conrad Gempf has recently launched a podcast of his book Jesus Asked (read by the author, even). Go on now, buy the book and download the podcast!

Goal!!!

Conrad (Conraldo) found an amusing link:

Ever wonder what your name would be if you played for Brazil?

No; I never did either. But now, if you wanted to, you could find out very easily. Go to this website and fill in your name. (When you're there, click the "generate" button rather than just hitting the return key on your keyboard.)

If I were a Brazilian footballer I'd be Jamildo or Dolando or Jinho, what with the variations on my first name. Not that I was even wondering. But still.

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I'm going to try to get away from comment moderation and let the computer do the work for me. TypePad recently added CAPTCHA for comments, so I'm going to give that a go. Hopefully it'll be enough to keep the spammers out. If nothing else it'll cut down on the mail coming into my inbox!

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Words on the page and a voice in the ear

Bart Garrett has launched his sermon podcast for the Berkeley Church Plant (he gets by with a little help from his friends). And Randy Schlichting (the Jedi Master who instructed me) is kicking off Heart of Worship, Beauty of Worship with some words from John Donne.

Man, I just realized that I've gotta prune my lists of links over there. It's getting a bit overgrown. I'll have to make some time for that this weekend.

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Now we are two

Two years ago today I started this thing. And I'm still going, probably repeating myself every couple of months when I forget what I wrote. So, in order to remind myself, I'll pull out some of my favorite posts and categories:

• Who I Am
• A Sword, Not A Club
• Christ Our Captain
• The Banner Of The Gospel
• God's Politics

Glancing back over those, I'm struck by how the quality has gone down of late 'round these parts. I need to get that old magic back. In any event, thanks for reading as I toddle along!

A new project

I'm probably going to regret this: Cardinal Fang's Kristian Merchandise Emporium.

That's what splitting a pitcher of Dos Equis with Jason does, I guess. We'll see how long the Cardinals can keep it going, and whether it gets sent public. And how much hate mail it generates. Yeah, that too.

Moving on up

It's hard to turn down free TypePad service for a year. I switched from monthly billing to yearly billing because they were offering a gift certificate for a free year of service. And so, Bart Garrett is going to start maintaining his Berkeley ministry blog on a site with an RSS feed: the aptly-named Bart's Blog. He'll still be maintaining the Berkeley Project website as well, so be sure to bookmark both to keep up as their team seeks to plant a church out west!

Blogs and ethics

I got an email notification that the Weblog Ethics Survey Results are up and available. To be honest, I can't even remember whether I clicked the link to take the survey when the email first came. I think I did, but I've learned not to trust my memory of late. It's a fairly interesting read, regardless.

This study explored ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers--personal and non-personal--through a worldwide web survey. Over a period of three weeks, 1,224 responses were collected and analysed.

Our findings show that these two groups are distinctively different in demographics, blogging experiences, and habits. We also found that there are significant differences between personal and non-personal bloggers in terms of the ethical beliefs they value and the ethical practices to which they adhere.

One of the comments suggested a "blogger's creed" as opposed to some sort of code of ethics. That could be a good idea. And besides, I dig creeds.

Back to a number

Thanks, Tom.

Speaking categorically

Since I have to come in tomorrow for part of the day, I figured I'd not overwork today. So I put a little effort into assigning categories for all my old posts and enabling category archives. Maybe it'll be helpful, maybe not. If nothing else, it's a fun diversion.