Concerning the following excerpt, may I just say, “Hallelujah!” We measure the value of our Pastor on whether they can keep us awake for an hour on Sunday morning. We have  put this enormous pressure on their shoulders to entertain us. That’s why you see so many churches switching to the video and media format. Churches [...]

This is pure awesomeness: the best ever animated gif.

Tribe has been silent for nearly a month. There are a few equally important reasons for the dead air: 1. I needed to step back just to get a grip on the excessively polemical direction I was regularly trekking. It’s so very easy to fall into the routine of graceless disagreeing. I don’t want to fall [...]

I used my free time on my days off to re-skin my blog. Notes: 1. For this theme, I quit IE6. I don’t care about IE6. 2. I’m not finished. I’ll be tweaking the design as time goes on, and permits. 3. This design comes with 100% more monk. He’ll spit out wise sayings, for [...]

It’s my day off, so I try to do things that have nothing to do with the other six days. I’m not sure how I stumbled into this story about Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, Gus Van Sant, Illuminati, Monarch Projects, Children of God Hippie Cult, and MKultra, but I did. Other interesting discoveries include the [...]

Why have I been so busy lately? Planting a church takes a lot of time and energy. We just threw our first annual block party in the city. See a post re: it by Steven.

I’ve been crazy busy; I’ll return as time permits. Stay tuned!

Our church plant has a brand new website. It just launched this morning. Justin Carroll, our IMG art director is flat-out awesome at what he does. We are so thankful that he and his wife (Desiree) are part of this ministry. Thanks for sharing your time, treasure, and gifts you guys! See it and link it [...]

The follow-up post regarding the Emergent Roadshow is in the works. The later part of my week is slow blogging, because I turn my complete attention towards my ministry responsibilities for the coming Sunday. So, the follow-up is coming, but it’ll have to wait ’till Monday afternoon. ‘Till then, read the article Brian Ross (one [...]

A Pastor’s Kid Defined, originally uploaded by lofitribe. The above snapshot was snapped right after our Sunday morning service, at our spot in Lancaster City.