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A reprint of an article from the good ol' Wittenburg Door, when Yaconelli and that crew were still there. They've (the present day "Door Keepers") have impressed me as much more satire and much less with the theological depth I remember......or maybe I just got old. Anyway, this is the Yaconelli stuff I remember.
8:33:29 PM 
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What caught me on this post is the bold part, a nd the if we think of "the networked market" as in Church people in the context of Church, what does this say about the power of networked intelligence/wisdom, shared as a community, as a "global" community even. I get "Teilhardian" goosebumps. More later on this......
"There are going to be a lot of BigCos at DigitalID World, even though the core idea is building a Net-native infrastructure that puts the individual in control of his or her identities, and lets Big Biz build on that. So we need more folks at the show coming from the individual side of things: the networked markets getting smarter faster than most companies kinda stuff we talked about in the preamble to The Cluetrain Manifesto. So check your calendars and see if you can make it. It's gonna be a helluva show. Here's an added attraction: the place will be thick with wi-fi. Andre said they just bought a pile of access points for the show. That should make it extremely bloggable."
7:55:13 AM
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This seems to be along the same lines as what I pulled from the Gordon Cosby sermon in my entry All Are Connected
Lessons of 9-11.
....So what was the lesson of 9-11 that the US has failed to learn? I think it's that God doesn't think we're as important as we do. The concept of national security is obsolete. We can't close our borders. We live on this planet with everyone else. Global warming, AIDs, terrorism, all penetrate all borders. New York is a world city. The last gasps of isolationism will be snuffed out by more humiliation, until we get the truth, we aren't above the rest of the world, but we are part of it. .....[Scripting News]
7:48:08 AM
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Click the above link to read an article/story I wrote
7:41:32 AM
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See my feelings about this in God and Politics
Highlights from the above: I'm for a "total mix", because you not only CAN mix God and politics, one MUST in order to be "relevant". -----Whatever affects the lives of people in society, particularly those of the poor, IS INDEED to be the concern of the Church. A Church that "stays out of politics" is just what the separatists want. That way the role of the prophet is diminished and the keepers of the political system can get off scott-free.-----The "Moral Majority" had their "Scorecard" a few years back, where they rated candidates on their "morality"
7:07:49 AM
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Who are these people kidding? Congress is VOTING to ALLOW religious leaders endorse candidates? It seems to me that in any non-"culturally captive" church, any speaker will say anything they choose about how they see the political issues as they impact the welfare of society and/or a particular community. There isn't an issue of whether or not we are ALLOWED to do so. The only place this is an issue is in Churches that believe that what they say has nothing to do with actual political issues, or actual political decisions which directly impact some area of actual life. Whether or not they are associated with a particular political platform is relevant to the point that there is a belief that the particular candidate endorsing a particular position will actually DO something when elected---- but that's all we have from candidates going in - their word against the other --- as on all other issues --- we make the judgment based on our instincts and the amount of confidence we have in the real intentions of that candidate. If a religious leader judges that one candidate has something important to contribute or something crucial to accomplish, they have and always have, where they are true to their calling, endorse anybody they see fit, and FROM THE PULPIT.
This is truly silly to debate. I guess it isn't for those to whom relgious conviction has nothing to do with what actually affects our society.
Mixing God and politics. Congress is voting on a bill to let religious leaders endorse candidates from the pulpit. The right can't lose: If it fails, they'll have a campaign issue to use against opponents in November. [Salon.com]
6:58:57 AM
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