Random

• Tony Jones and Steve Knight have a post listing some of the "-mergent" groups -- the Methomergents, Presbymergents, Reformergents, Luthermergents... These are people exploring "how the emergent experiment might take hold in the Petri dish of their own traditions/denominations." ~ Link

None of this is really new information -- but interesting and telling. I'll say it again, the denomination as an institution is not dying out. It's just being reformatted.

• Karen Neiswender was one of the children in the Selah Covenant Church, where I was pastor for five years right after seminary. Now an RN, Karen has been a community health specialist with Food for the Hungry in Latin America. She returned to the States to earn a masters degree and is now raising support to return. She's now at 82% with $650 a month left to raise. ~ Read her latest newsletter (.pdf)

• Has my hand strength increased so much or are they now making aluminum cans out of a lower gauge aluminum? It's great -- no need for a crushing machine.

• The Institute of Lutheran Theology, an unaccredited web-based Lutheran theological educational organization with a respected faculty, is developing MA and MSM programs. They currently offer classes in partnership with other accredited schools. ~ Link

• Starting in May Grand Canyon University will be offering a combination online-low residency Doctor of Education degree in organizational leadership -- Link

• The small POD (print on demand) publishers are concerned about some of Amazon's recent posturing -- afraid that Amazon is now in a monopoly postion and could squeeze them out. ~ Link

• Don Johnson is recommending Helvetica -- the movie ~ Link

• Asperger's: My life as an Earthbound alien -- wonderful personal piece on Autism ~ Link (via)

• Pomo L'Abri? Inching away from Francis Schaeffer's modernist presuppositions? ~ Link

• The door opens another inch -- the new Castro says Cubans can have cell phones ~ Link