Andy Rowell

Tweets May 1, 2014 – Nov 2, 2014

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Rather than blogging very often, I often post short thoughts and share resources on Twitter. I have posted below my tweets (Twitter posts) from May 1 through today Nov 2, 2014. On Twitter, I share resources and brief thoughts. Most of what I post is related to my interest in church leadership. By posting my tweets here, non-Twitter users can easily see what I have been thinking about. They are also searchable here because they are on a webpage.  

Nov 2014 5 TWEETS

"I don’t think avoiding Twitter is pragmatic if your audience is there, but it’s also unwise to dump…" tmblr.co/ZA1xby1UZvjr_

Throwing out Halloween candy is like running several marathons.

RELEASED TODAY: “Reading Backwards” by Richard B. Hays.baylorpr.es/sHays pic.twitter.com/Mwkjw6W3aw

The benefit of Twitter is interaction with professors/pastors–a change from day job with students/lay people. But it skews sense of normal.

 
 

Oct 2014 55 TWEETS

Goodbye, Mars Hill: Driscoll's multisite empire to sell properties and dissolve as churches go separate ways bit.ly/1vpBpRR

"A Ukrainian man who claimed responsibility for organizing a campaign to send heroin to my home last…" tmblr.co/ZA1xby1UVSO7C

Interesting profile of a leader: @BostonGlobe: "@mayortommenino, Boston’s longest serving mayor, has died at age 71."bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/…

Why a Seminary Professor Is an MBA Student bit.ly/1Ci3kqx #mba

I also love my MotoX (Android) smart phone from @republicwirelss $25 a month for basically unlimited texts, data, and phone. Can't beat it.

If you are used to Apple applications, don't switch to Windows laptop. But if you are using Windows laptop, I would not switch to Mac.

In Aug 2013 I got new MacBook Pro ($1000+) and new ASUS Windows 8 laptop ($399) from Groupon. I love the speed and reliability of…Windows.

Whew! Lots of people sharing opinions re today’s article on the flipped classroom. Great to see! ow.ly/DxaQk

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice shar.es/10fANR via @chronicle

@jrgordon13 Missional Outreach & Evangelism; Global Mission of the Church. Once they get it, they like it. Main text is: Newbigin's TGiaPS

@jrgordon13 Yes, I have students read selection from Unapologetic by Spufford: theguardian.com/books/2012/aug…

A high school teacher who spends two days as a student finds the sitting exhausting and the passivity demeaning.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-s…

What does the culture need from Christians? @nytdavidbrooks Audio and Transcript. (Oct 2) thegathering.com/fredsblog/davi… @TheGatheringCom@fred2smi

Friend @CeliaWolff has "Speak, friend, and enter" from Lord of the Rings on her office door. :-) ebay.com/itm/LORD-OF-TH…

Curtis Freeman's Contesting Catholicity probably the most important Baptist work since Fiddes' Tracks and Tracesandygoodliff.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014…

Board of Elders vs. Board of Advisors remind why polity and conflicts of interest matter. patheos.com/blogs/warrenth… &christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/octobe…

Hadn't seen Feb 2014 story about "spontaneous baptisms." Thorough planning involved planting people to come forward.religionnews.com/2014/02/24/meg…

"We cannot be credibly good without the outcast." Living the good life: Rowan Williams on Marilynne Robinsonnewstatesman.com/culture/2014/1…

Some of my comments on student papers who prayed 150 Psalms over 30 days and read Eugene Peterson's Answering God.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/20…

The Pope's concluding comments at the Synod on divorce, sexual issues etc. This is profoundly good leadership.en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/10/1…

Have younger pastors given up climbing the "pastoral career ladder", or have we just found a new way to do it? buff.ly/1omcoKj

#China has more people (1.4 billion) than all of Africa (1.1 billion).pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014… via @conradhackettpic.twitter.com/ZPUx6xoVy8

"universities expanded marketing, diversity, disability, sustainability, security, recruiting, tech, fundraising." necir.org/2014/02/06/new…

Maybe the sermon's gonna be a bit long, but today is a day of rest. And these people look exhausted, in need of a little shut-eye

This is the best of the articles I've read about Driscoll, and it just so happens to be written by my dad. christianitytoday.com/parse/2014/oct…

My daughter's nighttime situation is rather Isaianic & eschatological: the lion shall lie with the dog and bear and Dora and elephant and…

Why is Mark Driscoll trending? He has resigned from Mars Hill Church. Breaking details here: religionnews.com/2014/10/15/exc…pic.twitter.com/8Alh0l5G1E

Resident Aliens 25 Years Later: Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon at Duke 2014 Convocation shar.es/1mdmWl @DukeDivinity #dukeconvo

Ebola update today from @BethelSeminary student in Liberia during live online session. He traveled 88 miles to Monrovia for good internet.

2 books by Mark McCloskey @BethelSeminary on his 4-R Model of Transformational Leadership: amazon.com/Learning-Leade… &jmarkpartners.com

 

David Hollinger reviews Grant Wacker's book on Billy Graham:ow.ly/C4QMW

This is the best. When airport security asks a Nobel Prize winner what’s in his carry-on bag: blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2…pic.twitter.com/lqpDZoRitk

Minnesota second best state to live in the USA after New Hampshire.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…

John Sommerville citychurchmpls.org jokes that pastors are tempted to append to email messages "Heb 13:17".

Deacons, Church, and World: Hints from Karl Barth for the Church’s Public Witness | Comment Magazine cardus.ca/comment/articl… via@commentmag

Stanley Hauerwas drops out of General Theological Seminary lecture series after controversy religionnews.com/2014/10/08/sta…pic.twitter.com/DuN8AY4XaC

@TylerWS @drantbradley Yes, Bibleworks, Accordance, and Olive Tree. This is something of an expose on Logos:christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march/…

Love U2's new "Song for Someone" "If there is a light you can’t always see And there is a world we can’t always be" u2.com/discography/ly…

"Peter Enns believes Exodus was a comic battle." (That's 'cosmic'…Not God & Anubis telling insulting jokes about each other's mother.)

@ostrachan I have students read: Barth, Church Dogmatics, IV/3.2, 769-780 on the church's purpose; 734-742, 812-824 on mission in context.

@ostrachan A brief, representative, accessible piece from Barth himself: 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒅𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 by Karl Barth (3 of 3)

@ostrachan On the implications of Barth for ministry: 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 by William H. Willimon (2 of 3)

@ostrachan Description of his ministry: 𝑲𝒂𝒓𝒍 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉: 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 by Eberhard Busch (1 of 3)

 
 

Extraordinary shot of HK protests from last night.pic.twitter.com/hXpO9fGcUe

Good discussion of the place of Dallas Willard and @garyblackjr 's 'Theology of Dallas Willard' at @theotherjournaltheotherjournal.com/2014/09/15/the…

You know who ELSE made it over the White House fence?pic.twitter.com/t5VWJ9tdwP h/t @Jarsenault

76 of 79. That's the # of brains of NFL players found w/ CTE at the biggest brain bank for traumatic brain injury: pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro…

New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff nyti.ms/1nKLyew

Marilynne Robinson gets the #longread treatment in @NYTmag from Wyatt Mason: nytimes.com/2014/10/05/mag…

 

Sep 2014 26 TWEETS

@raushenbush Board interprets strike as resignation, terminates their employment. episcopalcafe.com/lead/seminarie…

The New Yorker reviews Marilynne Robinson's latest: "This is an unflinching book." newyorker.com/magazine/2014/…

Is Blogging Bad for Your Academic Career? (Gupta) wp.me/p2Rhc-1yw

All men should be farmers and all women should be mothers. Facetious hermeneutics with Elesha Coffman.christianitytoday.com/women/2014/sep…

P.osted: Is it the mission of the church to be a blessing to people? DeYoung and Gilbert say no: postost.net/2014/09/missio…

David died on Friday surrounded by his friends, family and books. More information at ln.is/dgmyers.blogsp… Naomi Myers

"upgrading an iPhone on a 24-month phone service contract doesn’t cost $199. This year it will cost me at least $649" nytimes.com/2014/09/28/tec…

July synagogue remarks from English professor @dg_myers who died of cancer yesterday after 6 year struggle:dgmyers.blogspot.com/2014/07/choosi…

Excellent bumper sticker seen near Duke: "Midwives help people out."

Gifted for Leadership: for women called to ministry. Be sure to check out the redesigned blog from @Leadership_Jnl: giftedforleadership.com

My latest article has been published in IJST on dialectical theology as theology of mission. bit.ly/1mvtAMa

Chris Rice @reconcilers describes @JohnMPerkins with Lao Tzu: "Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them…"reconcilers.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/go-…

My comments yesterday to the Christian College Consortium: a Pietist perspective on remaining Christ-centered. wp.me/p1DrnD-4ar

Ending a sentence with a period is so 20th Century Aggressive, apparently.bit.ly/1vb3lLr #nationalpunctuationday #theangryperiod

Chip Kelly shows some love to the faculty. | The Philadelphia Eagles' Secret Coaches: Professors m.wsj.com/articles/the-p…

#3: Africa is much bigger than it appears on most maps. bit.ly/ZbZbsdpic.twitter.com/zkYKpL09rH

George Hunsinger responds to Matthew Rose. bit.ly/1wKe3ZK

Me: You smell like meat. Bea, age 6: I am meat.

Lecrae: Christian rappers, Christian rap, and the No. 1 album in the countrygrantland.com/hollywood-pros…

Syria, Afghanistan, Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad and Madagascar – need hope. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…gallup.com/poll/175694/co…

Only Syria, Afghanistan, and Haiti have lower level of thriving than Congo.@congoinitiative gallup.com/poll/175694/co…usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

Superb review essay by Victoria Barnett on recent Bonhoeffer books by Marsh, Nation, and Williams.contemporarychurchhistory.org/2014/09/interp…

It's September 15th, which means that @qcommons is less than a month away!! Have you grabbed your tickets yet?! qcommons.com/twincities/

Wonderful news for our insect friends. pic.twitter.com/0BNGBmqJjP

If you are a Barthian, you don't say the flow or structure of your syllabus, you say the *architectonics* of your syllabus. #guiltyascharged

 

Aug 2014 53 TWEETS

Prayer "does not have to be beautiful or edifying, logically coherent or theologically correct." Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, III/4, 88.

Prayer is first of all, petition. "The Christian is able to ask." – Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, III/3, p. 269.

Solid articles here from professors on online teaching: @facultyfocusfacultyfocus.com

Utterly fascinating story: a man who disappeared for almost 30 years in the woods. gq.com/news-politics/… #longreads

"And that brings up the macho performance of busyness. Often, when I mention trying to work less,…" tmblr.co/ZR9d0p1PSt6eF

@postbarthian I explained Barth's The Christian Life in this review:amazon.com/gp/aw/review/0…

@postbarthian You want what is titled The Christian Life.

Sara Wyse of Bethel recommends to professors: How People Learnnap.edu/openbook.php?i… and Make it Stickhup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

My wife Amy preached today at City Church for the first time. I didn't notice the four-year-old's dress was on backwards.

You shall love your neighbor as your coffee.

Listened to volume 1 of 3 of "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill" (1984) and was struck by his will and force but also misjudgments.

"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." Peter Drucker quoted by @ericries.

Enjoyed audiobook The Lean Startup by @ericries (2011). It is impossible to know ahead of time which ideas will fly so test early and often.

@CarolynCGivens @toddhiestand Yes, I was going to recommend The Wingfeather Saga by @AndrewPeterson which I read with 9 year old.

"75 percent) of whites have entirely white social networks without any minority presence." #Ferguson theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

 

@edstetzer Check out: @edrinwilliams Bethel Sem grad @jkameroncarterDuke Div prof @CSCleve Bethel U prof @joshuadubois DC @BrianBantumSPU

@DouthatNYT @GabrielRossman @jsende Large weddings may also be a good way to reinforce commitment

@DouthatNYT @GabrielRossman @jsende Could be selective group w bigger weddings but….

 
 

Views: On being a gay faculty member at a Christian college:insidehighered.com/views/2014/08/…

@drewdyck Great story. Website comment: The next page buttons are really tiny. Anything you all can do about that.

Story of what happened after a pastor of a large church started exhibiting strange behaviors. bitly.com/1AurD5G by @aresimpson

@octothorp I recently read the opening story of Ishmael meeting Queequeg to my 9 and 6 year old boys who loved it.

In one America, people think about diets, guns and religion. In the other, digital cameras. nyti.ms/1oLlKy7

White folks: "I can't believe #Ferguson is happening in America." Black and brown folks: "#Ferguson is America."

This is more or less true all the time, but you should be reading@tanehisicoates’ Twitter feed right now

Wow. Wow wow wow. Capt. Johnson is amazing.cnn.com/video/data/2.0… #cnn

"We should think of networking in terms of service." - @susancain #GLS14

Question @BillHybels "What do you look for in a leader?" Answer@JeffreyImmelt "Rule-breakers." (That's a paraphrase.) #GLS14

Leaders "figure it out"–are "resourceful." @BillHybels #GLS14 / Yes, determination, perseverance, and flexibility are big.

But I love this event – the Leadership Summit at Willow – and I'm glad to get to be here and share. So that's the weird tension of the day.

I just want to say: It feels a little weird to be tweeting about anything other than Ferguson, or Gaza, or depression today.

Did you miss any of the lectures from the 2014 Barth conference? Have no fear. Access them all here: tiny.cc/48ifkx

@DaveOdomDuke @faithleadership Wise practical theology flows from formation: 1 Cor for leadership, Psalms for worship, theology for mission.

@DaveOdomDuke @faithleadership I say seminaries matter for formation for a lifetime of healthier ministry.

Why do seminaries matter? @DaveOdomDuke @faithleadershipfaithandleadership.com/blog/08-03-201… / Odom is always good and this is no exception.

The President's best biographer, David Remnick, with a stunning profile of@McFaul in @NewYorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2014/…

Why kids need free, unstructured play. In two words: social skills.n.pr/1p9PMdK @npr_ed #NPRPlay

"Misfire…" See this on our FIRST EPISODE. Good times. ow.ly/i/6td8l@brandonhatmaker @hgtv #MyBigFamilyReno

Saul doesn't persecute Christians, but Christ. He's like his royal namesake from the tribe of Benjamin, chasing down David to kill him.

Thanks to @JoelBGreen, there is a good chance I will not suck as a first-year professor. #cannotwaittostart chroniclevitae.com/news/248-how-t…

Allie's Rules For High School: #20 Selfies are for faces. sandrastanley.com

Slightly disagreeing with, but mainly extending, a point made by Robbie George: text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/08/advice… #textpatterns

 
 
 

Jul 2014 35 TWEETS

 

A group of authors is called a Procrastination.

Is Working From Coffee Shops Good or Bad For Your Productivity? The Science: bit.ly/1rS1UAX by @LenMarkidan

A report from @lscanlon @presoutlook on @shayner48 fight with pancreatic cancer. Continued prayers appreciated. pres-outlook.org/2014/07/columb…

"If your goal is to end up passionate about what you do, “Follow your passion” is terrible advice." buff.ly/WUKM20

@wdavidotaylor For the first time I recently upgraded to Spotify Premium for more sanity regarding outside noise.

Enjoyed audiobooks The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Pulitzer 1980) & Theodore Rex (2002) by Edmund Morris. Teddy was passionate & productive.

News: My wife Amy will be Pastor of Community Life at citychurchmpls.orgI'm still at @BethelSeminary. We are moving to SW Mpls on Sat.

Life Change: Moving to England to work at Trinity College Bristol!thissideofsunday.blogspot.com/2014/07/life-c…

Interview I did with Lifehacker with questions about my daily tasks and how I do them, which I guess is their thing: smarturl.it/fdvr6c

@Yair_Rosenberg @JeffreyGoldberg @Melusethia Jesus as a good Jew would want peace, justice, love, and truth as e.g. Jeffrey is working for.

Calvinist Pastor Turns from #Calvinism to #Arminianism after 20 Years as a Calvinist and Intensive Study feedly.com/k/1k3HdRr

Twitter lets you pretend to be friends with celebrities and strangers. Facebook lets you pretend to be friends with your friends.

Quote of my year: "To put it mildly, the world is a mess." – Fmr SecState@madeleine Albright on @FaceTheNation.

FYI Larry Hurtado's critical review of NT Wright's " Paul and the Faithfulness of God" HT @peteennslarryhurtado.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/wright…

@fitchest I enjoyed the Wingfeather saga books @AndrewPeterson with my 9 year old a couple years ago. His music is also great.

RT @between2worlds: Simon Gathercole reviews NT Wright's "Paul & the Faithfulness of God" is.gd/2mSi0j // Helpful.

Lady: "We have a lot of ticks in our area." My son Jonah (7): "We have a lot of lunatics in our area."

Public Service Announcement: My Duke Ph.D. friends are passing this around: "Academia and the people without jobs"medium.com/@publicanthro/…

"Growing church with dynamic leadership leaves wake of destruction" stories remind us theology and character matter.crosscut.com/2014/07/16/rel…

We have @tygrigg on the blog today with "How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Billy Graham Rule and Love Like… wp.me/p2en6s-13j

Heard this today-a pastors job-"hatch, match, patch, dispatch." In other words, baptism, weddings, counseling, funerals. Hilarious.

Our obit for James MacGregor Burns, presidential historian and leadership scholar: washingtonpost.com/politics/james…

So @DukeLibraries now has at least some ebooks Duke students can "read online." 2014 books by @dstephenlong, @alisteremcgrath, @ayjay. Wow.

Whoa. RT @nwarikoo: In Catholic Church in U.S., adult baptisms dropped 51% since 2000. Child baptisms dropped 22%. nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/2014/07/checku…

Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) responds to Peter Conn’s call (@chronicle) to de-accredit religious colleges. text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/07/an-aca… @tnajournal

Bad results, low graduation rate, little accountability: 'too big to fail' in higher education, @kevincarey1: nyti.ms/1ygfrUQ

Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed - nyti.ms/1mz6IcI@DavidStreitfeld goes long publishing throwdown.

In beautiful, thriving places, there is always construction going on.#metaphor #semperreformanda @DukeDivinity pic.twitter.com/efg2l64kvD

Listened to audiobooks of classics: Moby Dick, The Odyssey, The Prince, The Art of War. Enjoyed most: Odysseus's wild adventures.

I loved Bishop (2012) by @WillimonTweets about what he thinks United Methodist bishops should do. Humor & urgency. Practical & theological.

Louis Zamperini of 'Unbroken' has died at 97. If you haven't read Unbroken, read this weekend chicagotribune.com/entertainment/…pic.twitter.com/RqTwQSUB4E

 

Jun 2014 92 TWEETS

Enjoyed "Book of Common Prayer: A Biography" by @ayjay. Engaging rich history. I admit Schadenfreude seeing BCP's rep of stability debunked.

David Taylor @wdavidotaylor prof of Theology and Culture, Brehm Texas – Worship, Theology, and the Arts @fullerseminary has joined Twitter.

On the way to prayer meeting, I passed by a guy who had been beaten and robbed. Help me raise awareness. #BeatenRobbedGuys

More reflection from @ayjay on why he still thinks there is a time to close the laptops in the classroom. text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/06/laptop…

@CSCleve I also had students read chapter 9 "Creating Positive Crosscultural Interactions" of your Disunity in Christ for that course.

@CSCleve The Northouse text is the basic textbook used by McCloskey, Irving, and I in the Intro to Leadership courses at Bethel Seminary.

@CSCleve Northouse: "culture and leadership strongest body of findings is in Culture, Leadership, and Organizations."books.google.com/books?id=MIKDJ…

@CWtheology I would say Hunsinger saying Barth's is "soft supersessionism" is about right. Cf. Busch, Covenantwwwuser.gwdg.de/~ebusch/welcom…

@postbarthian Barth was pressed to say something nice to Brunner as Brunner lay dying. McGrath, Brunner, p. 223. books.google.com/books?id=ewUbA…

BREAKING NEWS: #PCUSA pastors can now marry same-sex couples in states where it is legal. #GA221

"He is at his best when he is plagiarizing." The endorsement no author wants!

Mark Lau Branson also recommends to me: Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations. 5th ed., 2003. as an alternative to strategic planning.

Mark Lau Branson recommends to me on leadership: Heifetz, Leadership without Easy Answers (1994) and Parks, Leadership Can Be Taught (2005).

Fitch says he when quoting John Howard Yoder he always now gives disclaimer (RYFC), which means "Recognizing Yoder's Flawed Character."

At @missioalliance event, @fitchest argued GOCN (mostly mainline) & missional pragmatists both need Yoder's "Theology of Mission" IVP, 2014.

@postbarthian “Barth and Brunner represent fundamentally different ways of doing theology." John W. Hart, Karl Barth vs. Emil Brunner, 218.

Craig Van Gelder @CraigVanG at @missioalliance eventmissioalliance.org/event/the-othe… summarized his "The Missional Church in Perspective" book.

@postbarthian Except Barth had no love for Brunner

@cagedbread I would go with the book on the topic, not the throwaway remark.

"she would remain the theologian's lover" books.google.com/books?id=hWfCA… "one must be careful not to think one can know."books.google.com/books?id=vIzEA…

@CWtheology What did she say about Barth's ecclesiology?

@CWtheology What did Charry argue in her paper?

Leadership Journal has taken down the post "From Youth Minister to Felon." Their apology here: bit.ly/1uKEJJ5

Justin Bieber baptized by Hillsong NYC pastor. That is all.m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/…

.@publicroad reviews the tremors and trends at this year's Southern Baptist Convention meeting: thebea.st/SUpijI

@cagedbread @sheddenm Spofford corrects me that he is nonfiction author, not journalist. Oops. P.S. Love the book. unapologetic-book.tumblr.com/post/885563355…

Tom Nelson and @ahc urging pastors and campus ministers to have curiosity about the jobs and studies of their people. #redeemingwork

Very odd report from SWBTS in the "Book of Reports."wadeburleson.org/2014/06/the-od… Do we not comprehend, or do we not care? Which is worse? #sbc14

Better Qs for potential pastors: When have you begun a new ministry? Tell us about a failure leading? @WillimonTweets books.google.com/books?id=QHeAM…

"All church leadership… is best rationalized on utility rather than puffed-up theological warrant." @WillimonTweets books.google.com/books?id=QHeAM…

To ensure decline "select people who follow instructions [and] keep information sharing to a minimum" @WillimonTweetsbooks.google.com/books?id=QHeAM…

Here's my review of Marsh's Bonhoeffer bio over @TGC. Spoiler alert: I liked the book: thegospelcoalition.org/article/strang…

Review of @christilling's edited book on the work of Douglas Campbellandygoodliff.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014…

@TylerWS Hear, hear, to ecumenical humility and evangelistic paedo-baptists and discipling believers-baptists.

Article: Baptist leader ok w preschool baptisms if family is committed to discipling kid. Which is, um, paedobaptism.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/june-w…

@fairlyspiritual @missioalliance Yeah. I shouldn't have tweeted that as I think N. is off there. For Paul, witness to outsiders is central.

@andygoodliff I probably shouldn't have tweeted it because I think Newbigin is wrong here. Witness is Paul's driving motivation.

@andygoodliff Yeah. Sorry for confusion there. Newbigin refers to both Acts and Paul in that essay.

Being with the Southern Baptists has @AndyStanley unusually fired up tonight.

The 2nd edition of Gordon Fee's commentary on 1 Corinthians is being released Sep 30th. eerdmans.com/Products/7136/… @eerdmansbooks

Acts 1:8 ἔσεσθέ μου μάρτυρες is "predictive future" or "may be imperatival future." Daniel Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, p. 568.

"To use the simplest and biblical formulation: 'Ye shall be witnesses unto me' (Ac. 1:8)." Karl Barth, CD IV/3.2, 797.

"It is with a task, and to fulfil this task, that the community is sent into the world and exists for it." Karl Barth, CD IV/3.2, 795.

Acts 1:8 "the disciples must accomplish their task of being witnesses to Jesus." I. Howard Marshall, Acts, Tyndale NT Commentaries, p. 60.

"'You shall be my witnesses.' It is a promise – not a command." Newbigin.newbigin.net/assets/pdf/78c… /I think N. is overstating this a bit.

"I cannot find in any of Paul’s letters a single word which lays on the churches the ‘task’ of evangelism." Newbigin.newbigin.net/assets/pdf/78c…

@cagedbread @sheddenm Rowan Williams is dense, nuanced, archbishop. Francis Spufford is popular, provocative, journalist.

@cagedbread @sheddenm I think of Lost Icons as the apologetics work of Rowan Wiliams. Tokens of Trust is catechesis.

@sheddenm Agreed but apples and oranges.

Our recent review of Nicholas Healy's HAUERWAS: A (Very) Critical Intro —erb.kingdomnow.org/nicholas-healy… #Theology @DailyHauerwas

New post: Now Online: Charles Taylor Firth Lectures 2014 bit.ly/1no1Ndy

Organizational Dynamics syllabus and Prezi presentations by@SusanLMaros are impressive. library.fuller.edu/registrar/sche…prezi.com/user/SusanLMar…

Good man, beloved mentor, legendary pedagogue, Doug Green is being "retired" from Westminster Seminary. wts.edu/stayinformed/v… Alas.

"The task of leaders is to… animate all… to engage [in]… coordinate [and] test… charismatic activities." @MiroslavVolf, After, 230.

Here is the church *building*, here is the steeple, open the doors, and see all the *church.*

"The members do not stand over against the church as an institution; their actions and relations are the institution." @MiroslavVolf 241.

"Zizioulas's ecclesiology can get along quite well without… the majority… who belong to a given local church." @MiroslavVolf After, 116.

"Where 2 or 3 are gathered in Christ's name, not only is Christ present among them, but a Christian church is there as well." @MiroslavVolf

"I will join this long tradition by taking Matt 18:20 as the foundation…for determining what the church is." @MiroslavVolf After Our, 136.

Rule of thumb: If it is too long to be a tweet, it shouldn't go on a PowerPoint slide.

@johnstonmonte "the church is not a single subject, but rather a communion of interdependent subjects." @MiroslavVolf, After Our Liken, 224.

At @FamStudies @DouthatNYT weighs in on family structure, pop culture, the media, marriage promotion, and more. family-studies.org/ross-douthat-o…

Review of Simon Chan, Grassroots Asian Theology bit.ly/1hjDvSj

Please pray for @SeattlePacific in the midst of the tragic shooting on our campus blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/06/…

Enjoyed Great by Choice (2011) by Jim Collins and @MortenTHansen. I appreciate Collins again attempting to root insights beyond anecdotal.

"If someone has heard of your work, ascribe this to your interlocutor’s erudition" & other good conference tips:davidlincicum.com/2014/05/28/som…

Video: @james_ka_smith on Postliberalism and Lindbeck’s THE NATURE OF DOCTRINE bit.ly/Stang5

"Dietrich would tell his brother Karl-Friedrich that Germany needed an ACLU of its own." Is subtext Marsh's Bonhoeffer vs. @ericmetaxas's?

Mission agency books: Mission Drift @peterkgreer @ChrisHorst, Leading from the Sandbox @TJ_Addington, Leading Across Cultures@JPlueddemann.

@johnstonmonte Maybe u are being too hard on yourself. Ecumenism has to do with appreciating other members of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12).

@johnstonmonte Body of Christ is Individual (one) and group of individuals (many). It is not good… to be alone (Gen 2:18).

@johnstonmonte I don't have a handle on that. Do you see that in Sanctorum Communio or Life Together?

Hat Tip to Charles Marsh for amusing treatment of the quote in Strange Glory books.google.com/books?id=hWfCA…

Feel free to substitute your own locale for Spain. This needs to be put with a photo of Bonhoeffer in tennis gear.

"In any case I now do have serious questions whether Barth could have written in Spain" – Bonhoeffer books.google.com/books?id=900Ph… / A great line.

Tips for professors just joining Twitter: recommend articles/books you have found interesting. Facebook is personal, Twitter professional.

Steps for professors joining Twitter: create handle with your name, fill out profile, look at who others are "following" and follow some.

I'm suggesting professors join Twitter to: see what people they admire are reading, publicize their articles/books, and share resources.

Marquette theologian @dstephenlong has joined Twitter. "Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation" is my book of the summer.

 

May 2014 109 TWEETS

@travisegreene She's starting at Bethel this fall.

A map of Mars Hill's "non-compete" zones in Washington Statepic.twitter.com/KtnBUZtewu

@chronicle @noahtoly My summary of this: Good lecturing or teaching is not a monologue or a speech but rather interactive and dialogical.

There is also now an audiobook of Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (19 hours and 41 minutes) amazon.com/Strange-Glory-…

@AndyRowell Most Excited About: Framing Paul by Campbell, Contesting Catholicty by Freeman & Reading Backwards by Hays. All @DukeDivinity!

Most excited about: Saving Karl Barth: Balthasar's Preoccupation by D. Stephen Long and Strange Glory: A Life of Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh

Clear, generous, concise analysis by New Testament scholar Larry Hurtado of Bart Ehrman's How Jesus Became God.larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/how…

Good discussion between @ayjay & @DouthatNYT on how Christians should engage if cultural battle seems lost. Thread:twitter.com/DouthatNYT/sta…

"The only problem with Futureville is that it is too sane and too wise." —@jwilson1812 on new book by @skye_jethanibooksandculture.com/podcast/

Feud between Dave Ramsey and former employees hits the Daily Beastthebea.st/1kpaSmD

Bonhoeffer and Technopoly ift.tt/RF6WST #textpatterns

I'm excited to announce that I have accepted the position of professor of spiritual theology at Talbot, Biola Uni @biolau @talbotnews

As the youngest, newest faculty member at a seminary, I am sometimes like the fabled youth pastor who held a pool party in the baptistry.

You're Doing Twitter Wrong: bit.ly/1hyjXVl

Church pastored by @RevKevDeYoung petitions to leave Reformed Church in America, join Presbyterian Church in Americathegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindey…

Just war and pacifism–rightly understood–are not so far apart. Both want stuff done through forceful nonviolent means.

"You cannot teach non-violence to a man who cannot kill." – Gandhibooks.google.com/books?id=tquxD…

"Pacifist Christians should encourage nonpacifist Christians who hold to a just war theory to take it seriously"Yoder books.google.com/books?id=1r3v2…

Finished listening to Moby-Dick. Some spellbinding storytelling along with many detailed asides about whaling. All of it witty and cheeky.

@j_andersen I have had Logos since 1999 so it was a different scene. I only use it for Greek and Hebrew reading and searching.

@j_andersen Most Mac biblical scholars use Accordance but Logos has most titles and more popular. I use Logos. Read:christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march/…

"I took my appointments calendar and wrote in 2-hour meetings with 'FD.'" — Eugene Peterson on Dostoevsky as mentor. books.google.com/books?id=ZZ7kp…

At @BethelSeminary commencement, @leithanderson stressed not quitting but instead investing talents for the long term (Matt 25:19).

The problem is not that the poor don't get laws–they don't get law enforcement. @garyhaugen in @CTmagazine Jan 2014christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/januar…

North Heights Lutheran Church (Arden Hills and Roseville, MN) Removes 3DM (April 2014) nhlc.org/3dm

This morning heard my favorite speaker in eleven years of attending@BethelU commencements: alum Deb Haarsma, president of@BioLogosOrg.

Jerry Walls responds to Piper's Calvinism: ow.ly/x4o1E

@AndyRowell and Alan Padgett and Bruce Ware

Wayne Grudem, @JohnPiper, Millard Erickson, Tom Schreiner,@greg_boyd, LeRon Shults, Amos Young all once taught at@BethelSeminary @BethelU

Witherington, Carson, and Frame on Meaning of Inerrancy (Gupta)wp.me/p2Rhc-1sE

Video: Hays, Sumney, and Thompson Respond to Wright’s Paul Book (Gupta) wp.me/p2Rhc-1r1

Video: Who is Christ for us Today?: Bonhoeffer's Final Questions – from biographer Charles Marsh – Jan 2013. veritas.org/talks/who-chri…

Robert Gundry: N.T. Wright argues for pacifism, theocracy, divine right and repudiates democracy and just war theory. patheos.com/blogs/euangeli…

Methodist historian @kevinwatson moving to Candler School of Theology at Emory: vitalpiety.com/2014/05/22/per…

Is Piketty All Wrong? nyti.ms/S2fdRg

If students blow the word limit, then they are telling me: "You can speed read this." I think that's what I think when I do it.

Fuller is honored to welcome @DrAmosYong as the newly appointed director of our Center for Missiological Research! bit.ly/1p10uUu

I used to mix up @MichaelHyatt and @ThomRainer - Nashville, leadership, publishing, etc.

Of all the tasks of the church, witness is the one ring to rule them all. Barth IV/3.2, 797 + Tolkien. / @jakeeyler reminded me I said this.

I like the weekly 1 page reflections: to force consistent reading, fuel class discussion, & have less stressful poorly-prepared long papers.

What you get in my Christian ministry courses: Bible, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Newbigin, @Pontifex, sociology, church stories, Twitter, and HBR.

I still think of insights from Advice for New Faculty Members by Robert Boice that I read when I taught at Taylor University from 2005-2007.

I used lots of PowerPoint. I found it faster & more flexible than lecture notes + handouts and better for students than no outline/guide.

Last class tonight of 1st year at @BethelSeminary. 7 courses X 14 lectures = 98 lectures. Lots of Thomas Groome's Shared Christian Praxis.

@jbaylor105 I say a bit about doing doctoral work at:andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/20… and a smattering about parenting atandyrowell.net/kids/

A number of Twin Cities mission and evangelism theological gatherings in June and July andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/20…

"Yoder hinted that …bodily intimacy …was based in his … vision of a radically nonconformist church." archive.bethelks.edu/ml/issue/vol-6…Accurate.

"during softball games [Yoder] … preferred playing outfield, so he could read a book while waiting for a fly ball." archive.bethelks.edu/ml/issue/vol-6…

See articles "On Teaching John Howard Yoder," Mennonite Life, May 2014.archive.bethelks.edu/ml/issue/vol-6…

@tedolsen This has been a helpful counterpoint for me as I rail against silos. Thanks, Ted.

David Harvey's critique of Picketty's Capital bookdavidharvey.org/2014/05/aftert…

The "good" student vs. pursuing life's wisdom: ow.ly/x8w5Efb.me/1qKhfGzPh

Did you catch the second part of my conversation with @GordonPres, Michael Lindsay, about leadership & ambition?cardus.ca/comment/articl…

As one is a professor longer, it is hard to imagine becoming more energetic, optimistically helpful, and conscientious in one's grading.

I find myself writing longer comments for online/hybrid student papers than traditional because I have less time to clarify things in class.

I know I should ideally turn all of this into published articles / books but is that realistic? And won't it be outdated? Is this new era?

Pouring so much into teaching, I wonder about posting on the blog PowerPoints and nuggets of advice given to students while grading.

trigger warnings and trust ift.tt/1oPKp3Y #textpatterns

@james_ka_smith @byronborger It doesn't sound like he's read the book. My Philistine meter is going off.

A gentle, friendly request for Baptist writers to stop conflating their issues w/issues in American Evangelicalism. dranthonybradley.com/a-gentle-frien…

@fitchest It seems to me this is a fight between Reformed @TGC and Lutheran @PastorTullian theology–see Pauline studies for parallels.

Ministry is piling manure (βάλω κόπρια) on the seemingly dead that it might grow (Lk 13:8). -Willimon willwillimon.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/the…@WillimonTweets

@sniequist And if you vacuum broccoli, you will need to get rid of that vacuum.

@FaithTheology The downloadable OneClickDigital audiobook from my library is read by Frank Muller. Will have to see if I can get Hootkins.

@joshmrowley I listed 20 other ones in my previous couple tweets that I think better represent those most influential on evangelicals.

@JasonGoroncy In my last two tweets, I give you a different list of 20 which I think represent influence on evangelicalism in the US.

20 living American influential evangelicals: Plantinga, Carson, Dobson, Coleman, McLaren, Keller, A. Stanley, Crabb, Sanneh, Yancey. (11-20)

20 living American influential evangelicals: B. Graham, Sider, Perkins, Foster, Peterson, Hybels, Piper, Guder, Fee, Vanhoozer. (1-10)

We're still working on restoring services – no ETA just yet but we'll update when we have that info. #typepadstatus

@joshmrowley The list is from a Southern Baptist in Nashville. I tweeted it because I have referred to it in class re: perceived influence.

I love @edstetzer's rants against bad survey research. Today's on youth groups driving teens to apostasy is great.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2014…

Enjoying audiobook Moby-Dick so now want Moby-Dick in Pictures, Marvel Illustrated, & Pop-Up Book. H/T @FaithTheology faith-theology.com/search/label/M…

Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts bit.ly/1oIj1lA

20 of the Most Influential Evangelicals in America (Mar 31, 2014) by@ThomRainer thomrainer.com/2014/03/31/twe… List has oddities as comments note.

"An individual who has no geniality… had better be an undertaker." Spurgeon books.google.com/books?id=HfP1o… via Sandy Millarhtb.org.uk/media/managing…

Today kicks off #KBCDIII - read the front matter to the end of page 5 in III/1 today. It pairs well with coffee.

a quick announcement about me, and I hope you don’t mind if I **SIT DOWN** first shar.es/VHrlT via @ShareThis

Ironically, I've never felt respected after any sentence beginning with "With all due respect…"

Biographer of Franklin, Einstein, and Jobs, @WalterIsaacson says science needs the humanities and vice-versa. neh.gov/about/awards/j…

Anybody else interested can join us. Starting the Barth Vol. III reading group 5/19. 5 pages a day, Sunday off. #KBCDIII @cabematthews

Just finished my last @BethelSeminary online class. After 6 yrs, thought I'd be ecstatic, but truth is I'm a little sad. Been a great ride!

On Charles Marsh's new bio of Bonhoeffer: The Strange Glory of a Fully Human Life shar.es/SAEM9 @bonhoefferdaily

Excellent take on the Q conference from John Murdock:firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

@ayjay I value Arthur Holmes's influence on Wheaton College (leadership) more than what it takes to rise to be president of Wheaton College.

@ayjay Being a "good conversationalist" may help you social climb in American elite circles but that does not mean you accomplish things.

@ayjay So @GordonPres reports how people have climbed to the top of US orgs in last 30 years. If they help groups achieve, = "leaders."

@ayjay If a leader "influences a group… to achieve a common goal," leadership ≠ positional power (Northouse, p. 5). books.google.com/books?id=MIKDJ…

I listened to audiobook Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (2002) from library. It left lasting impression of Roosevelt's infectious energy.

A senior leader needs "liberal arts curiosity." – D. Michael Lindsay@GordonPres Great interview with @james_ka_smithcardus.ca/comment/articl…

People think men are disorganized, bad at communicating, and yet magically good at leadership: vox.com/2014/5/7/56911…pic.twitter.com/g64fBbwChV

Competent women are getting bypassed by overconfident men. Watch:bit.ly/1lUJooy pic.twitter.com/NFdqzKANr7

RT @DukeDivinity Convocation & Pastors' School Oct.13-14, featuring Hauerwas, Willimon, and James Davison Hunter bit.ly/1uADrB6

Watching @edstetzer @LeeStrobel @MarkMittelberg talk about Spiritual Discovery Groups–similar to Alpha. bit.ly/WatchExchange #TheExchange

On @BozT & @netgrace_org investigating sexual abuse in Christian organizations – by @kathrynajoyce -@theprospect prospect.org/article/next-c…

Confirmed: philosophers–like most rational readers!–prefer footnotes to endnotes > leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2014/05/f…

@ahc @larsleafblad I'll have to hear how you two met!

@jrgordon13 Hauerwas was normal i.e. great. Mohler was mostly respectful–blustered but seemed to know better than to attempt to argue.

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