Category: Twitter

I have been using Twitter since August to write down micro-blog
posts.  I have tried to keep them around the theme of church leadership
like my blog.  Each “tweet” is only 140 characters.  I try to provide
something of value and not just tell you what I had for breakfast. 
Anyway, I just thought I would post the last 67 here so you can see what has been on my mind the last two months.

• You can follow me by setting up a Twitter account.  You yourself need not actually post any tweets, you can just follow people. 
• Or, you can subscribe to my tweets by RSS feed such as Google Reader. 
• Or you can just click on my Twitter page and scroll through my posts.
• I have given you my Twitter glossary at Preaching, mission, Barth and Duke: recent Twitter micro-blog posts 

The most recent tweets (June 25) are at the top.

1. TED talks are great http://www.ted.com/ Here is the advice they give their speakers: The TED Commandments http://bit.ly/2CtU7h H/T @ahc 1 minute ago from bit.ly

2. The Top Ten Ways to Ruin Young Pastors by my fellow Taylor University grad @jimvining http://bit.ly/15FbNn is very good. H/T TU's @jr_briggs 11:09 AM Jun 24th from web

3. Oct 7-9 http://www.catalystconferen… Oct 7-9 http://youngpastorsnetwork.org Oct 8-10 http://www.thefund.org/conf…  10:36 AM Jun 24th from bit.ly

4. I have revised my post: "How to Learn to Read Theological German" http://bit.ly/XYtaz 9:35 PM Jun 23rd from bit.ly

5. A very thorough obituary of Fuller Seminary theologian Ray S. Anderson (1925-2009) by Christian D. Kettler http://bit.ly/S3sCD 1:39 PM Jun 23rd from web. Additional note: Now Fuller also has an announcement: http://fuller.edu/news-and-events/news/anderson-passing.aspx

6. I posted more German translation practice from Barth's Church Dogmatics (§ 33, 47, 50, 59, Fragment). http://bit.ly/YzjGT 7:12 PM Jun 22nd from bit.ly

7. Dr. Ray Anderson, practical theologian at Fuller Theological Seminary, passed away yesterday. H/T @jasonclark @drjohnjackson 3:30 PM Jun 22nd from web

8. I have posted 2 pages of German from Barth's Church Dogmatics § 62 that I practiced translating, plus the Eng. trans. http://bit.ly/VtIkH 4:50 PM Jun 21st from bit.ly

9. Wonderful review by bookstore owner Byron Borger of "The Girl in the Orange Dress" by of our friend @MargotStarbuck http://bit.ly/5dlHX 1:44 PM Jun 21st from bit.ly

10. Audio MP3 from ICA event Slavoj Žižek with John Milbank http://bit.ly/lbXZ5 @PeterRollins @sivinkit H/T http://bit.ly/KzR5j 1:48 PM Jun 20th from bit.ly

11. I recommend Gran Torino named by @CTMovies #3 Most Redeeming Film of 2008 http://bit.ly/Jthst and #7 Critics' Choice http://bit.ly/CwohB 11:51 AM Jun 20th from bit.ly

12. RT @ahc Veritas Forum, producer of terrific programs at major universities, is hiring regional directors: http://bit.ly/10vgML 9:08 AM Jun 20th from web

13. RT @PeterRollins For a summary of the Zizek/Milbank exchange I was at, visit http://bit.ly/3wyxi7 9:05 AM Jun 20th from web

14. I posted my Learning the Craft of Pastoring: Six Practices for Cultivating Excellence in Pastoral Ministry term paper http://bit.ly/MoT4g 10:03 AM Jun 18th from bit.ly

15. RT @ERBks In other #Hauerwas related news, @ChristianBook has WITH THE GRAIN OF THE UNIVERSE for $0.99!! http://bit.ly/sflzI HT: @matthewjk 11:25 PM Jun 17th from web

16. I sent off my last paper. 12 out of 12 courses done for my doctoral program. Yeah! Now German, Spanish, prelim exams and dissertation.6:28 PM Jun 17th from web

17. Another important post today on my blog. Willow Creek's Reveal team begins suggesting principles of top churches http://bit.ly/M4RvL 4:14 PM Jun 16th from bit.ly

18. See my rather significant new blogpost: Fourteen theories of church growth from seven research teams http://bit.ly/TNOpq 2:58 PM Jun 16th from bit.ly

19. See @dooce for how the most popular mommy blogger http://dooce.com/ Heather Armstrong presents the birth of her second child on Twitter.9:07 AM Jun 16th from web

20. Chaves, "51% [of congregations], with 59% of participants, do not allow women to be full-fledged senior clergy." p. 16 http://bit.ly/8tU0v 8:51 AM Jun 15th from web

21. Mark Chaves, "Only 9% of congregations [in the U.S.] describe themselves as theologically liberal." p. 13 http://bit.ly/8tU0v 8:48 AM Jun 15th from web

22. 65% of attenders of megachurches cite "senior pastor" as the most important factor that keeps them at the church. http://bit.ly/OFP61 p.18 8:44 AM Jun 15th from web

23. Wheaton's W. Jay Wood's CT review of Dallas Willard's book http://bit.ly/15Iayx and Wood's book Epistemology http://bit.ly/12Tmnp are great.11:06 AM Jun 13th from bit.ly

24. I think Benjamin Button could have been about grace in tragedy but the screenwriter thought it was "be yourself." http://bit.ly/167hze 1:41 PM Jun 11th from bit.ly

25. I suggested Eugene Peterson's book Take and Read for ideas about "What to read? Literature and ecclesiology" http://bit.ly/AT5Tv 10:15 AM Jun 11th from bit.ly

26. I revised my blog post: Two new reports: Thumma / Bird on Megachurches and Chaves on American Congregations http://bit.ly/wd3wo 1:13 PM Jun 10th from bit.ly

27. See http://bit.ly/Tbe4R for MP3s from http://advance09.com/ in Durham, NC last week with @pastorjdgreear @JohnPiper @edstetzer @PastorMark 8:51 AM Jun 9th from bit.ly

28. Son Ryan (4) notes that I look like Tim Keller and wonders whether Keller knows Madagascar zoo animals. See CT's http://tinyurl.com/otwy7v 7:23 PM Jun 8th from web

29. I commented again about how pastors might want to talk to the media at Prof. John Stackhouse’s Weblog http://bit.ly/WCQwP 3:42 PM Jun 8th from bit.ly

30. I commented that pastors usually don't want to talk to the media because they want to stick to the essentials in public. http://bit.ly/CewT3 12:30 PM Jun 8th from bit.ly

31. Dear God, help me to finish this paper today. It will never be perfect and I have got to move on. Amen. (And my wife Amy says, "AMEN!") 9:20 AM Jun 6th from web

32. In Christianity Today June issue, great work by Trevin Wax on Piper/Wright debate + Wood's review of Willard in my fav section TheCTReview.9:09 PM Jun 5th from web

33. New report: Mark Chaves – National Congregations Study "American Congregations at the Beginning of the 21st Century" PDF http://bit.ly/8tU0v 10:13 AM Jun 4th from bit.ly

34. God is most glorified in us when we are satisfied in him . . . while . . . on . . . Twitter @JohnPiper is tweeting. http://ow.ly/aPWv 5:27 PM Jun 3rd from web

35. Microsoft Word changes "pastoring" to "pasturing." Right click "Add to dictionary."12:06 PM Jun 3rd from web

36. Will discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's God, Philosophy, Universities (2009) http://bit.ly/SwLRu at July Ph.D./Th.D. Theology & Ethics colloquium11:31 AM Jun 3rd from bit.ly

37. I have now listed my top 14 favorite blogs at http://bit.ly/19yFRm 7:46 AM Jun 3rd from web

38. New blogpost: 60 Church Leadership Blogs and 140 Other Blogs I Subscribe To http://bit.ly/1Cf9C 5:40 PM Jun 2nd from bit.ly

39. Free audio download of the month. Christ Plays in Ten-Thousand Places by Eugene H. Peterson christianaudio.com http://bit.ly/eNuaE 11:03 PM Jun 1st from web

40. New post at my blog: I would welcome your advice on refining my draft outline for my Theology of Pastoral Ministry paper http://bit.ly/BUGND 10:52 PM Jun 1st from web

41. I'm going to Duke Divinity School to study and say hello to friends at Shaping the Beloved Community "Summer Institute" http://bit.ly/TCIhP 9:32 AM Jun 1st from web

42. Harvard Ph.D's in OT Peter Enns and Bruce Waltke interact re: tensions in the Bible. http://bit.ly/OC4xN I had Waltke at Regent College.9:01 AM Jun 1st from web

43. For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’ – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/427f0A Apparently hugging is now cool.12:36 PM May 28th from bit.ly

44. I have posted my Bonhoeffer paper on my blog in case anyone wants to help me proofread it before I turn it in. http://bit.ly/RN4NR 2:34 AM May 28th from bit.ly

45. Must finish Bonhoeffer paper for Hauerwas today. Must write . . . must write . . . must write . . .10:25 AM May 27th from web

46. See post Silicon Alley Insider: The Twitter Founders' Favorite Tweets http://bit.ly/c38rQ for a few smiles.10:20 AM May 27th from bit.ly

47. I commented on Between Two Worlds: Bonhoeffer on the Difference Between the Counsel of Psychology and Christianity http://bit.ly/6F687 9:48 AM May 26th from bit.ly

48. Fascinating engagement with issues in OT scholarship in Duke prof Stephen Chapman's review of Kenton Sparks's book http://bit.ly/pqjWP 12:10 AM May 16th from web

49. No New Testament scholar embraces the label "New Perspective on Paul" or "traditional Lutheran"-everyone wants to draw insights from both.1:40 PM May 14th from web

50. A lot of theologians, in their zeal to see the church be more faithful to Jesus Christ, despair and throw church out with the bath water.1:21 PM May 14th from web

51. "The Visible Church-Community" chapter 11 in Discipleship is my new favorite piece by Bonhoeffer. If you want to love the church, read it.10:10 PM May 12th from web

52. I commented on both of Will Willimon's posts "Advice for New Pastors" Part 1 http://bit.ly/14KkIg and Part 2 http://bit.ly/UU5pS 3:06 PM May 12th from web

53. RT @ahc Michael Gerson summarizes Robert Putnam et al.'s upcoming book on American religion and community. Fascinating. http://bit.ly/7SrHg 12:38 PM May 11th from web

54. Kevin Vanhoozer moving from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School to Wheaton College. Great interview with him. http://bit.ly/10qrxE 12:26 PM May 11th from web

55. Of the 4 on Meet the Press with @davidgregory, I was most impressed with Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai. Opinions? Video: http://bit.ly/19QmEb 6:22 PM May 10th from web

56. Fun article by Malcolm Gladwell about how unexpected acts can topple big opponents (in Old Testament and basketball). http://bit.ly/eQyOU 12:54 AM May 10th from web

57. I've had to learn a lot about historical context of Barth and Bonhoeffer to understand their ecclesiologies. It was a complicated time.12:49 AM May 10th from web

58. Amazed that you can read chapters for free online through Google Books. Bonhoeffer on preaching in Lischer's book. http://bit.ly/SQgYU 10:42 PM May 9th from web

59. @cwillz Bonhoeffer wrote Discipleship in 1935-36 and Ethics in 1940-1943. March 1943 H. assassination attempts fail. In April, B. arrested.2:05 PM May 8th from web in reply to cwillz

60. Twitter no longer using Tinyurl but rather Bit.ly See http://bit.ly/vuX5j 9:44 PM May 7th from web

61. In Ethics, Bonhoeffer subtly describes why he thinks it is right to kill Hitler whereas some believe in Discipleship he is a total pacifist.9:31 PM May 7th from web

62. Reading (Cost of) Discipleship by Bonhoeffer again http://bit.ly/1HZUlo This time asking how this fits with Ethics. http://bit.ly/k9cOx 9:23 PM May 7th from web

63. I show you how to read Hauerwas on Hays free at http://bit.ly/11uSs5 2:39 PM May 7th from web

64. I commented on Duke Ph.D. and Fuller prof Daniel Kirk's post about Gorman, evangelicals, and the Bible. http://tinyurl.com/cwddru 2:22 PM May 7th from web

65. MacIntyre, "Aquinas summarizes the outcome of that [moral] enquiry so far, advances it one stage further, and leaves the way open" (TRV 74).10:04 PM May 5th from web

66. In tonight's Theology and Ethics Colloquium we talked about Aquinas. Many at Duke love Aquinas–not as a system but conversation partner.10:03 PM May 5th from web

67. New blogpost: My Th.D. program progress update http://tinyurl.com/cb5fok 1:33 AM May 4th from web

Preaching, mission, Barth and Duke seem to be themes in my tweets the last month.  I have been using Twitter since August to write down micro-blog
posts.  I have tried to keep them around the theme of church leadership
like my blog.  Each “tweet” is only 140 characters.  I try to provide
something of value and not just tell you what I had for breakfast. 
Anyway, I just thought I would post the last 63 here so you can see what has been on my mind the last month. See below.

• You can follow me by setting up a Twitter account.  You yourself need not actually post any tweets, you can just follow people. 
• Or, you can subscribe to my tweets by RSS feed such as Google Reader. 
• Or you can just click on my Twitter page and scroll through my posts. 

Glossary:

• Tweet: (1) noun: one Twitter micro-blog post.  They are 140 characters or less. Example: there are 63 tweets below.  (2) verb: to post something on twitter.  Example: I tweet about once or twice a day on average. 
• RT means Re-Tweet.  (1) verb republishing a Twitter micro-blog post that someone else has written because you think it is interesting or worth responding to. (2) noun.  A republished twitter micro-blog post.
• H/T means Hat Tip.  Noun or verb.  It is a way of footnoting that you got your idea from someone else (similar to RT).  It is a blog abbreviation but some use it in Twitter as well.  It is polite and ethical to give credit where credit is due even in the blogosphere (blog atmosphere) and Twitterverse (Twitter-universe).
• @ means another person who has a Twitter account.  They see if you have
  mentioned their name in one of your tweets if you put the @ sign.
• http://tinyurl.com/ is a website which makes a long url into a short url.  For example: http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2009/03/advice-about-duke-thd-and-phd-programs-in-theology.html can be changed into http://tinyurl.com/bkatdf There is a TinyUrl Creator Firefox Add-On which helps you do this easily.  You have to be using Mozilla Firefox
  which is a great (free) internet browser (faster than Internet
  Explorer).  In Firefox, once you have TinyUrl Creator installed, you
  just go to Tools . . . TinyUrl Creator . . . From Current URL 

1. I commented on the post today about Karl Barth on preaching and listening to preaching. http://tinyurl.com/c6qqpo15 minutes ago from wb
       

2. Yesterday someone did a major rant against bad preaching to which many commented http://tinyurl.com/czrmeq17 minutes ago from web
       

3. RT: @cwdaniels John Howard Yoder's new posthumous book "Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution" http://tinyurl.com/dmm3deabout 16 hours ago from web
       

4. Jonathan
   Wilson-Hartgrove (New Monasticism author) married Jonathan R. Wilson's
   daughter Leah. John Wilson no relation (I think).about 20 hours ago from web
       

5. Jonathan
   R. Wilson (Carey theology professor), John Wilson (editor of Books
   & Culture), Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (New Monasticism author).about 20 hours ago from web
       

6. As
   Christians we rightly point out ills of "consumerism," but we also have
   to explore how proclamation of the good news IS appropriate.11:59 AM May 1st from web
       

7. The
   "latest" thing in mission and evangelism: lots of students wondering
   about the potential for community gardens to foster connections.11:46 AM May 1st from web
       

8. Must grade, must grade, must grade.10:43 AM Apr 30th from web
       

9. May/June
   issues of Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Leadership, Rev. and
   Men's Health have arrived–almost pulls me away from internet.10:37 AM Apr 30th from web
       

10. RT @cameronstrang "Everybody Loves Raymond is actually a consistently funny show." Yes, we recommend it for couples with in law issues.10:32 AM Apr 30th from web
        

11. Listening to Coldplay Radio on Pandora. http://tinyurl.com/cpvajq12:17 PM Apr 29th from web
        

12. Turned in paper. Grading "Maintenance to Mission" papers for Ken Carder.12:16 PM Apr 29th from web
        

13. Duke guard Jon Scheyer here at the bagel place next to me.9:59 AM Apr 29th from web
        

14. Regent College's preaching professor Darrell Johnson is moving to First Baptist Church in Vancouver. http://www.firstbc.org/4:44 PM Apr 28th from web
        

15. Writing
    paper for Hauerwas on MacIntyre's Three Rival Versions, Herdt's Putting
    on Virtue, and Kerr's Christ, History and Apocalyptic.6:56 PM Apr 26th from web
        

16. @edstetzer But "the average person is in a congregation with 400 people and a budget of $280,000" (Mark Chaves). http://tinyurl.com/cysabl9:35 PM Apr 24th from web in reply to edstetzer
        

17. The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded a couple days ago. Courageous journalism and fine writing. See http://www.pulitzer.org/awa…9:49 PM Apr 22nd from web
        

18. I am now reading Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by Alasdair Macintyre http://tinyurl.com/dgbpt5 Hauerwas's favorite apologetics.9:54 PM Apr 21st from web
        

19. I
    enjoyed Karl Barth's Homiletics (1932) on preaching and his Evangelical
    Theology (30 yrs later 1962) on doing theology. He mellowed a bit.9:51 PM Apr 21st from web
        

20. TypePad @sixapart and my blog now working again. http://www.andyrowell.net/2:31 PM Apr 21st from web
        

21. @tonymorganlive and @perrynoble parting ways http://tinyurl.com/d9uycs and http://tinyurl.com/cnfle81:35 PM Apr 21st from web
        

22. I commented on post by @edstetzer on the state of the church. http://tinyurl.com/dgx77z1:32 PM Apr 21st from web
        

23. My blog is down. "TypePad blogs are currently down, or loading slowly . . . Please check the Status blog." http://status.sixapart.com/1:27 PM Apr 21st from web
        

24. Still mulling over Ph.D. dissertation fable http://tinyurl.com/crl746 H/T @jonestony9:34 PM Apr 18th from web
        

25. Today
    is my last class of 2 years of coursework for the Th.D. (which means
    little because I have lots of work to do to finish the courses!)10:45 AM Apr 16th from web
        

26. I tried to fix my comparison between Grenz and Hauerwas. http://tinyurl.com/b9so3n10:44 AM Apr 16th from web
        

27. Jealous.
    Charles Campbell (preaching prof at Duke) and Brian Brock (here
    visiting) are both doing theological commentaries on 1 Corinthians.9:25 AM Apr 16th from web
        

28. Lots
    of connections with Duke with Brazos Theological Commentary on the
    Bible: T. Work, Hauerwas, Jonathan Wilson (MnP), Brian Brock (1Cor)9:23 AM Apr 16th from web
        

29. Hauerwas asked Gorman yesterday about participation in Christ vs. habit. N.T. Wright says in http://tinyurl.com/cx3skm that faith is a habit9:13 AM Apr 16th from web
        

30. I
    just noticed all my past tweets are back after being lost for a week.
    Wow. Great! I put in help request and a comment on support blog.9:02 AM Apr 16th from web
        

31. We heard about Michael Gorman's new book on the center of Paul's theology yesterday. It is now out. http://tinyurl.com/ca8p3r9:00 AM Apr 16th from web
        

32. You can search The Word Leaps the Gap: In honor of RB Hays at Google Books http://tinyurl.com/crjfhr8:57 AM Apr 16th from web
        

33. J. Louis Martyn was at the New Testament colloquium at Duke last night. Some call his Galatians the best commentary ever.8:51 AM Apr 16th from web
        

34. Excited
    about new books coming out from IVP by friends Margot Starbuck
    (Hausmann) (July), Marva Dawn (Aug), and Darrell Johnson (Sept).10:48 PM Apr 14th from web
        

35. R.R. Reno in 2006 "Best Schools for Theology" http://tinyurl.com/cr8r831:05 PM Apr 14th from web
        

36. R. R. Reno "On Graduate Study In Theology" http://tinyurl.com/df7egk1:03 PM Apr 14th from web
        

37. R. R. Reno on theology programs http://tinyurl.com/de3wat In 2006, he recommended Duke. 🙂 See http://tinyurl.com/dn969910:35 AM Apr 14th from web
        

38. Richard Hays's sermon on his son's ordination http://tinyurl.com/cdut89 last month. Chris is a professor of OT at Fuller Seminary.10:29 AM Apr 14th from web
        

39. I wish I could do it all: (1) keep up a nice lawn for ball-playing, (2) have a garden, (3) plant flowers, (4) build a treehouse.10:33 PM Apr 12th from web
        

40. Whatever
    happened to gum-chewing? My theory: the oral fixation has changed. Now
    no one is far from a coffee cup or water bottle instead.10:27 PM Apr 12th from web
        

41. Bart Ehrman on Stephen Colbert http://tinyurl.com/d4olp2 See Ben Witherington's 2 part detailed review http://tinyurl.com/dl7glb2:52 PM Apr 10th from web
        

42. Ok. This is a known issue of missing tweets. http://twitter.zendesk.com/…11:44 AM Apr 10th from web
        

43. It says I have 398 updates but they are not showing on my page. Annoying.11:29 AM Apr 10th from web
        

44. Where are my tweets?11:28 AM Apr 10th from web
        

45. From 1947 to 1969, nearly 20% of the American population moved every year . . . only 15% in 2000, 11.9% in 2007. http://tinyurl.com/c2krpj2:42 PM Apr 7th from web
        

46. I commented on Jimmy McCarty's post The Role of the Academic Theologian http://tinyurl.com/dxah9x with a long quote from Barth's Evang Theo.8:03 AM Apr 6th from web
        

47. Sunday Walter Brueggemann speaking at Duke Chapel (the church on campus at Duke University). Audio/Video at http://tinyurl.com/69rrsa2:29 PM Apr 3rd from web
        

48. Discussion about emerging church (88 minute video) btw @jonestony @scotmcknight @therebelution DeYoung H/T @cwillz http://tinyurl.com/chm9ab2:03 PM Apr 3rd from web
        

49. Gary Burge gives a positive appreciation of the work of Kenneth E. Bailey in Books & Culture. http://tinyurl.com/dhllz710:37 PM Apr 2nd from web
        

50. Note also J.I. Packer's nomination for Christianity Today book of the century: Barth's Church Dogmatics. See http://tinyurl.com/cag5z78:34 PM Apr 2nd from web
        

51. “Karl Barth is an eccentric evangelical not a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” My seminary professor J.I. Packer H/T http://tinyurl.com/czhmn58:33 PM Apr 2nd from web
        

52. I'm
    still here–have been reading lots of Barth, Bonhoeffer & ethics;
    leading Acts Bible study; grading papers; and enjoying boys and wife.10:09 PM Apr 1st from web
        

53. Corrected link to audio for Hauerwas lectures (Mar 8-9).
    http://tinyurl.com/c9oaf82:43 PM Mar 28th from web
        

54. Audio for Stanley Hauerwas's Grenz lectures (Mar 8-9) are available free online at the Carey website at http://tinyurl.com/dzpa8411:53 AM Mar 27th from web
        

55. New blogpost: How to read Hybels. Also I put 2 quotes from Barth on exegesis in the comments of earlier post. See http://tinyurl.com/d8o6ns10:50 PM Mar 24th from web
        

56. I review Busch's biography of Karl Barth and list some other biographies of theologians at new blogpost: http://tinyurl.com/d8o6ns12:31 AM Mar 24th from web
        

57. Stanley Hauerwas engaged Richard Hays's criticism of him regarding Scripture. I like them both. See my comment http://tinyurl.com/cylyx34:50 PM Mar 21st from web
        

58. Lots of good apologetics talks at http://www.veritas.org/medi…4:27 PM Mar 18th from web
        

59. Many students in Ken Carder's course had aha moment about rural and small-town settings reading Tex Sample's book http://tinyurl.com/codjwm10:51 AM Mar 18th from web
        

60. If
    I could think about grading papers as "commenting on blog posts" maybe
    it would be more fun. Or more seriously like Mt 18:15 and Rom 12.8:41 PM Mar 17th from web
        

61. Thinking about writing "a theology of grading papers" to procrastinate from actually grading papers. 🙂8:36 PM Mar 17th from web
        

62. Karl
    Barth's 14 vol Church Dogmatics is 8,000 pages. Barth tried to write 8
    pages per day (Busch, 373). Compare TNIV Bible at 864 pages.5:06 PM Mar 16th from web
        

63. Duke Divinity School has posted their Fall 2009 courses http://tinyurl.com/d3hghg Richard Hays teaching Romans, and OT in the NT, etc.11:32 PM Mar 12th from web

Dear People who watch my Blog,

I have been using Twitter since August to write down micro-blog posts.  I have tried to keep them around the theme of church leadership like my blog.  Each “tweet” is only 140 characters.  I try to provide something of value and not just tell you what I had for breakfast.  Anyway, I just thought I would post the last 20 here as a sampler platter. See below.

• You can follow me by setting up a Twitter account.  You yourself need not actually post any tweets, you can just follow people. 
• Or, you can subscribe to my tweets by RSS feed such as Google Reader. 
• Or you can just click on my Twitter page and scroll through my posts. 
• I have also attached a Microsoft Excel document with all my past Tweets if you want to scroll through them this way.  Download CSV file of all AndyRowell Twitter posts up until today

Twitter user advice: 

• I used storytlr  to make the backup CSV (Excel) document.
• http://tinyurl.com/ is a website which makes a long url into a short url.  For example: http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2009/03/advice-about-duke-thd-and-phd-programs-in-theology.html can be changed into http://tinyurl.com/bkatdf 
• There is a TinyUrl Creator Firefox Add-On which helps you do this easily.  You have to be using Mozilla Firefox which is a great (free) internet browser (faster than Internet Explorer).  In Firefox, once you have TinyUrl Creator installed, you just go to Tools . . . TinyUrl Creator . . . From Current URL 

You can see my Twitter category for my past thoughts on Twitter.  I used to think it was really narcissistic but I now think it is not that much more narcissistic than writing blogs, doing Facebook, writing articles, writing books and striking up a conversation with someone.  In each case, you have something to say and you hope the interaction might be edifying to someone so you put it out there.    

Last 20 Twitter posts ("Tweets"):

The most recent Twitter micro-blog post is at the top. 

AndyRowell

1. 2 of 2 part tweet: Hauerwas: "Yes those things. But he [Willimon] has people mad at him–he is doing a good job!"2 minutes ago from web

2. 1 of 2 part tweet: Hauerwas thinks Willimon is doing a good job as bishop. I said, "But he is focusing on leadership and effectiveness!"4 minutes ago from web

3. I have been thinking about our children learning more from our example and values than our parenting style. That gets you thinking.8 minutes ago from web

4. Hauerwas told me a dissertation on church practices with Yoder & Newbigin or a 1 Corinthians theological commentary could work. He's kind.9 minutes ago from web

5. What do I mean that Hybels and Hauerwas are not that far apart? Read Resident Aliens coauthor Will Willimon's blog http://tinyurl.com/ybj69211:59 PM Mar 10th from web

6. Someday maybe I will write a book on Eugene Peterson and get to pore over all his work in the process.11:43 PM Mar 10th from web

7. My prof Hauerwas called Hybels & Willow Creek heretical at the end of http://tinyurl.com/b9jp6c That's too bad–they are not that far apart.11:42 PM Mar 10th from web

8. William Stringfellow was mentioned by Eugene Peterson, Ken Carder, Ben Myers and Halden Doerge this week. Seems like a guy I should read.11:32 PM Mar 10th from web

9. Andy is reading a lot of Karl Barth and D. Bonhoeffer these days. See also a few funny quotes by our kids at http://www.andyrowell.net/k…11:14 PM Mar 10th from web

10. I did a long new blog post Advice about Duke Th.D. and Ph.D programs in theology http://tinyurl.com/bkatdf answering FAQ's I get.8:01 AM Mar 7th from web

11. Comparing Stanley Hauerwas and Stanley Grenz http://tinyurl.com/b9so3n11:39 PM Mar 4th from web

12. Today in Local Church in Mission we are watching portions of ABC 20/20 on Appalachia http://tinyurl.com/cxn2528:47 AM Mar 4th from web

13. Snow day–no school at Duke–high today of 33 but Friday high of 67 forecast.8:14 AM Mar 2nd from web

14. Bonhoeffer ponders Romans 9:1f. Paul is willing to be damned for the sake of his people. He loves God that much (Sanctorum Communio 184-5).11:35 PM Feb 27th from web

15. Reading Bonhoeffer's dissertation Sanctorum Communio on ecclesiology. http://tinyurl.com/b9r8hk A tough read; ideas also in Life Together.11:21 PM Feb 27th from web

16. "Nielsen’s . . . reports that the average American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high." http://tinyurl.com/cmv4nx9:38 PM Feb 25th from web

17. Nielsen gives the latest stats about TV watching. No sign of decline. http://tinyurl.com/b2rcbt9:35 PM Feb 25th from web

18. My review of book "No Perfect People Allowed" by John Burke. Stories about church where outsiders find Jesus. http://tinyurl.com/bzze2t9:00 PM Feb 25th from web

19. Obama's style: "on the one hand . . . on the other hand." I think that is generation X (a tad relativistic), professorial, & collaborative.8:54 PM Feb 25th from web

20. Best line from Ash Wednesday service: Allan Poole on distractions that impede our relationship with Jesus, "What do you like the taste of?"8:44 PM Feb 25th from web