Monthly Archives: February 2009

Look ma! In camera(phone) effects!

"Photon gating" makes for interesting cameraphone pictures (via Boing Boing) "The iPhone has no physical shutter and instead uses photon gating on its CMOS sensor. Some parts of the image are recorded before others, much like with a scanner. The iPhone's CMOS scanner seems to be a lot slower than, say, the CMOS sensor on ...

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Bob Hyatt: The Death of Preaching

Bob Hyatt (bob.blog) has a good post about video venue and how they will eventually lead to the death of preaching. This goes right along with the thoughts from my last post. I can foresee that if church takes this shape, we will have more and more people driven to "discover" preaching as their spiritual ...

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Charis and Action: some thoughts on spiritual gifts

I was thinking about 'spiritual gifts' this morning. Rolling around the idea that maybe our various church cultures (at least in the evangelical stream) do a great job of promoting the gifts of preaching and teaching... and the personalities that go along with them. The trend I have seen is that 'going into (the) ministry' is ...

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Personal Rant: Hope and Theology

This was a comment I posted on a thread about spiritual depression at Internet Monk. Wanted to put it up here so that I would remember. For the past two weeks of so, I have been questioning weather or not I can believe in God any more. I won’t get into it all here, ...

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