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Some of you may know that I spent 15 years as a pastor with a mainline denomination. It's true. I want to let the readers here know about a new blog I'm running to focus on matters of a religious and spiritual nature.
My thought, as my life has change in the decade since I left ordained ministry, is that there are things I wish I had said from the pulpit. No regrets - just a former pastor's way of sharing about crazed religion, absurd theology and hilarious stories. Let me invite you to WishfulPreaching.com.
You can also find me on Twitter and Facebook.
My thought, as my life has change in the decade since I left ordained ministry, is that there are things I wish I had said from the pulpit. No regrets - just a former pastor's way of sharing about crazed religion, absurd theology and hilarious stories. Let me invite you to WishfulPreaching.com.
You can also find me on Twitter and Facebook.
I have three 'kids' with 4 year college degrees and one who went (more or less) straight from high school into the world of employment. Has the track to vocational success changed? I received an email last week from someone at MBA Online and they shared the info-graphic below. I found it interesting enough to post. What do you think?
Created by: MBAOnline.com
Created by: MBAOnline.com
This strange tale was prompted by "The Tenth Daughter of Memory" and is purely a creative writing piece and should only be read as a fantastic tale.
Blasphemy and Unicorns
I'm not sure what prompted the man standing in the shadows to speak to me, but he did and I remember exactly what he said as his words rattled forth.
I tell you, sometimes, stories are more complex than they seem and truth more strange than you expect.
They say it was a spear that pierced his side that dark day, but we know different, we who slide to and fro through the shadows of humanity's denials. We are the substance of fantastical tales, of angels, demons, leprechauns, sprites and of fairy twists and turns. Ours is the story of how the divine is called to watch the human journey, to document their story and on rare occasion we are needed to brush that story back on course - not a defined course, but on at least a path of momentary preservation from a perilous extinction. That day we were simply watching another pinnacle of human cruelty acted out with a hill, a cross and the delicate flesh of God - the brush was about to take place, but not by us this time, by something much larger.
The guard held the spear in his hand and other than a passing evaluation of the particular smoothness of the spear's tip, had no idea. He was following the simple instructions of his superior, "Grab that spear and thrust it into the Jew's side. I have no intent on waiting here all night for him to die. I have places to be." He was also following the direction of God.
We all know, though it may surprise you to hear, dear mortal, that Unicorns carry the very power of life in their veins. It is said and is true that unicorn tears can heal the flesh. It is said and is true that unicorns can ride on the breath of life and travel between heaven and earth in the beat of a monarch's wing. However, what is not said, never spoken about is the resurrection power of the fallen unicorn's horn.
When a unicorn dies, which isn't very often, the life of the divine beast bursts into its horn, spiraling upward, deep into the ivory tip where it is driven by the spinning of life's essence, infinitely packed and powerful and then bursts into the heavens to be reabsorbed by the Divine. This moment is known as Cretaten. What only I know is that, if by some precisely timed tragic and horrendous event, the horn is cut from the unicorn before the Cretatan is complete, the divine is captured in the horn. That horn would be of infinite value, and if it ever accidentally found itself somewhere, say perhaps fashioned into the tip of a common spear, it would be an unnatural weapon that would be more likely to transform life anew than kill. Such things could never happen, we would never allow it. However, it might be allowed to happen, even be planned, if a resurrection miracle was what was needed.
But, you didn't hear it from me.
After a few years of using Twitter, I think I’ve discovered a secret code. What Our Tweets REALLY Say!
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The
Tweet We Send
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What We
REALLY Mean
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@lesseraccount Thanks for the RT!
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“Your suck-up has been duly noted. Get
back in line”
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@godlyaccount Thanks for the RT!
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“OMG! You noticed me… please, please
do it again. Please!”
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@newaccount Thanks for the follow
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“Yes. I know you worship me. Get back
in line”
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@Celebrity Thanks for the follow
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“LOOK AT ME!!! I’m somebody now!”
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RT @you @somebody2 @somebody3 @afriend
#FF people
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“I do this for you, but I better get
some followers and you owe me”
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#FF @godlyaccount because they are the
bomb, funny and can walk on water
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“Yes. I’m sucking up. Getting back in
line now.”
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#FF @lesseraccount because they are
new to twitter, cute and funny
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“Ok. Charity done. I pray that they
will remember this tweet if they become @godlyaccount”
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“A clever, touching, cute quote” –
Famous Person
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“I can’t really be bothered to think
for myself at this moment, but see how smart I am to find good quotes? Follow
me now!”
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RT @someone “A clever, touching cute
quote” – Famous Person
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"I can’t even be bothered to source by
own quotes, much less create something original. I’m in line."
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Current Blog title with LINK
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"I've written something and I’m begging
you to read it…heck you don’t have to read it just RT it or click on the
link. Come on little statistics grow!"
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RT of a RT of your Tweet
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"Look! Somebody thought I was clever. I’m
so clever! What a clever one am I!"
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@someone LOOK! This is amazing w/ LINK
to something you’re selling
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"I’m a SPAMMER"
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Sometimes, I miss the days when who I was online wasn't so intimately connected to who I am in real life. I once kept a blog under a pseudonym and as a result felt a liberating permission to voice there anything at anytime about any subject. It was a wonderful forum for processing thoughts and feelings.
Today, Social Media and the sophistication of Search makes it easy to see who is behind the posts, updates and mentions.
Do you ever miss the days of virtual anonymity?
Today, Social Media and the sophistication of Search makes it easy to see who is behind the posts, updates and mentions.
Do you ever miss the days of virtual anonymity?
I'm headed to the annual Internet Summit in Raleigh, NC this week. I was going to write a post about it, but I met Jess via some of the Social Media buzz going on about it, and since she has done such a nice job with posting about it already, I'll refer you to her for the details and expectation settings around the Internet Summit 2011.
Be sure and tell her I said hello - we bloggers like all that connectivity stuff, you know!?
Feel free to follow the online chatter on twitter via #ISUM2011 or get all the details at the O-FFICIAL website -http://www.internetsummit.com/
Welcome! Since you're right here... Would you like to make me happy as a clam at high tide?! Really? Well, then look to the right sidebar and click the Google Join This Site button. Now, enjoy the blog!
I just visited a favorite blog of mine and found nothing but content inviting me to porn.
There is a very popular blog I've followed for a few years maintained by a snarky, humorous and creative woman. I visit there occasionally. The blog has thousands of followers.
Today I went there only to discovery that the entire blog - content, ads, photos - had been taken over by advertisements for porn sites!
The aggravating thing is that I don't know if the author sold out, or let the domain expire only to have it picked up by an adult industry cyber squatter. Either way, a very good blog is gone.
Sometimes I hate the Internet.
There is a very popular blog I've followed for a few years maintained by a snarky, humorous and creative woman. I visit there occasionally. The blog has thousands of followers.
Today I went there only to discovery that the entire blog - content, ads, photos - had been taken over by advertisements for porn sites!
The aggravating thing is that I don't know if the author sold out, or let the domain expire only to have it picked up by an adult industry cyber squatter. Either way, a very good blog is gone.
Sometimes I hate the Internet.
Surprises abound when I meet with new people and such was the case last week when I agreed to share a coffee and conversation with the enthusiastic Lindsey Huston. Ms. Huston gives her account of our meeting in a recent Eye On Media blog post. She is very gracious to this ole blogger - so, yes...you should read the post: "Curiosity Passion and Endurance."
"The rabbit hole of knowledge in the interactive media field is infinitely deep. This is the metaphor KIM WILLIAMS, a Client Service Manager at BEM GROUP, INC. in Greensboro, left me with after our information meeting this past week...." (read more)
I'll not recount anymore here, but what I do want to share is that it occurred to me just how much of the future of the Interactive Media world will be determined by those, like Lindsey Huston, who are just now immersing themselves in the ever changing and advancing world of Interactive Media and Marketing.
Perhaps we spend a little too much time talking about what technologies and platforms are best, or are lasting. I've seen a great deal of debate lately about the role of things like Google Plus (G+) and Facebook's latest features - but little discussion about the change makers, the idea people, the soon-to-be-amazing PEOPLE that will not only decide the direction in which we will travel, but will create the technologies that will take us there. So, drop over and see what is happening just down the street from me at Elon University's Interactive Media Program. Or just add the iMedia blog to your RSS feed and try to hang on!
While you are act it, tell Lindsey Huston hello!
"The rabbit hole of knowledge in the interactive media field is infinitely deep. This is the metaphor KIM WILLIAMS, a Client Service Manager at BEM GROUP, INC. in Greensboro, left me with after our information meeting this past week...." (read more)
I'll not recount anymore here, but what I do want to share is that it occurred to me just how much of the future of the Interactive Media world will be determined by those, like Lindsey Huston, who are just now immersing themselves in the ever changing and advancing world of Interactive Media and Marketing.
Perhaps we spend a little too much time talking about what technologies and platforms are best, or are lasting. I've seen a great deal of debate lately about the role of things like Google Plus (G+) and Facebook's latest features - but little discussion about the change makers, the idea people, the soon-to-be-amazing PEOPLE that will not only decide the direction in which we will travel, but will create the technologies that will take us there. So, drop over and see what is happening just down the street from me at Elon University's Interactive Media Program. Or just add the iMedia blog to your RSS feed and try to hang on!
While you are act it, tell Lindsey Huston hello!