Anjali Claire, six month update

Photo by katherynmoranphotography.com

Because I have a blog and a cute baby… === We had a photography session gifted to us by some friends with Katheryn Moran Photography, located in the Pacific Northwest. Katy is a terrific and child-adoring photographer. Website: http://www.katherynmoranphotography.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KatherynMoranPhotography

The great user error of 2012

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The Mayans were right… So Hacking Christianity has been down for 10 days. Suspiciously just as I was meeting Bishops and District Superintendents who told me they read my blog, the blog RSS feed went down, and then in trying to rectify it from away from my home computer, I managed to delete the entire [...]

Anjali Claire, born 10.07.2012

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This is Anjali Claire, born Sunday October 7th. 7 pounds 12 ounces and 19.5 inches long. She is our first child and all of us are doing terrific. Her first name means “divine offering” in Sanskrit. I’m United Methodist clergy, and my spouse is a Baron Baptiste yoga instructor, so we felt that her name was [...]

Now posting two hours in the past.

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(Note: lots of “I’s” and self-reflective narcissism ahead. But it’s a blog so you knew that already…) It was difficult but I tried to keep from opining away about General Conference and its aftermath. I tweeted and Facebooked a lot but no blog posts. There was a TON to talk about and respond to but…I’m a slow [...]

Big Announcement, Part 2: Moving Out West

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New Appointment in the #UMCHello HackingChristianity community, Sorry to be so quiet these past two weeks, and for getting off-schedule of our Lenten Book Study. Thanks for your messages and wonderings of “where are you?” during this time. But I have a good reason…As you know, I am currently serving a church in my home [...]

Big Announcement, Part 1: A New Hacker in the Family

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  Wahoo! (Big Announcement Part 2 coming tomorrow)

Thanks for the Award, Community!

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Two speeches about church and social mediaForgive me blogosphere, I have sinned. It’s been 3 weeks since my last post. Real life gets in the way of blogging, just as blogging gets in the way of real life. It’s a balancing act and honestly I needed time to refocus after all the Beth Moore attention [...]

Progressive Christian, Spring/Summer 2011

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Shameless PlugOne of our blog posts at Hacking Christianity has made it into journalistic semi-big-time: published in a respectable religion magazine. Our blog post on TOMs shoes and evaluating charitable giving “Glam/Missional” has been adapted and made into an article in the Spring/Summer 2011 edition of The Progressive Christian (link). The Progressive Christian is formerly [...]

Three Year Blogiversary!

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Wow…three years? Yup. First public post was in April 2008, a few weeks before General Conference 2008. Wild. Here’s a stroll down memory lane for longtime readers and a few new reading pieces for newcomers. Favorite posts from the first year: Mission Holiness Rankings of UM Seminaries [snarky piece making fun of Andrew Thompson that [...]

Welcome UMReporter readers!

Some new readers may be stopping by here in the next week due to the United Methodist Reporter including the blog address in their feature on “a week in the life of UM pastors” in the April 8th edition. We weren’t expecting that coverage so…wow! Thanks for the shout-out and the great feature, UMR and [...]