the Eclectic Soul

Great Article...

Great article from presby pastor and church leader Bruces Reyes-Chow.  

Check it out here.

Link-Love

Thought I'd start a new weekly post and share some links that I've found interesting.  Love 'em or Leave 'em they are what they are. I hope they're interesting and entertaining.

• My sneaking suspicions has been confirmed.  According to USA Today, Protestant Christians are more loyal to their toothpaste brands than their denominational affiliations: Read here.  
• Church in Abilene Texas drops utilities not just to save a dollar but so that they can use the money they would have spent on electricity to give it away in service to others: Read about it here.
• Why, Why, Why? Read about it here. 
• Oh the possibilities and perils of Facebook and other social networking media:  Read about it here.
• In other Facebook news, Facebook asks the question: Who Owns the Content: Read about it here.  
• My own denominational tribes is asking some good questions: Read about it here. 
• Shane Claiborne shares his compelling vision of discipleship:  Read about it here.  
• Seminaries need to talk more about human sexuality and its complexities: Read about it here. 
• Is Darwinism waning?  What say ye?: Read about it here.  
• Some great advice for church leaders handling criticism:  Read about it here.  
• How do you define "church?" Read about it here.  
• My seminary alma mater to announce new president:  Read about it here.      

Peace,

E

Tech News From Across the Pond

I've owned an iPhone for a little over a month, and its safe to say that I continue to be impressed. This little device has really made my life more productive and more entertaining. It isn't a perfect device by any stretch of the imagination [but it is as close to it as I can imagine]. Even for all of its marvels, there are relatively simple things that it cannot do.

For example, it cannot copy calendar colors over from the desktop version of iCal.  Seems a really strange and very simply thing to be able to achieve with a native app.  There is no cut and paste feature that would allow one to cut and paste a link for example from the browser to a blog page.  Flash media still isn't supported on the iPhone.  These are just a few things that I have named.  

But I will say, even with it's small imperfections, and I do mean small, there is a vast world of tech junkie stuff at one's disposal.  The App Store is one of them

Now it seems that Nokia and Microsoft will be opening their own version of an applications store in 2009. This latest tech piece from the BBC annouces the intentions of these two technology giants to move into the sacred ground broken by Jobs and his band of merry men [and women].

One could only hope that either they, or someone will come out with syncable word-processor program for the iPhone that will allow you to not only read MS Word files but also edit them.  Also, it would be nice if Apple, instead of simply making an amazing Keynote remote, could also make a mini Pages and Numbers interface for the iPhone.

Well, for all you tech junkies I just thought I'd share some news.

Happy Monday to all!

Peace,

E