I am an unrepentant "Isaccarian" tracker of church and culture issues ; and believe that:
(click here)to explore this deep shift.
By the way:
I am heretical enough to believe that one manifestation of the era we live in, is what is often called the "emerging church."Here's a clip from Nightline on this.
Good news: the church is wanting to morph into something more "missional".
Another signpost of the times is all the "God-haunted" music out there, whether by believers or not. God is showing up in "secular arenas" like never before (Len Sweet:"It could be for the first time in history, God is more active in the world than the church!" A whole glorious section of our church forum is dedicated to examples of this phenomenon. A most obvious example is U2, seen here leading worship (with Psalm 40) in a Brazilian stadium..
And on a different note (literally), consider this amazing group below(Who else has been described as sounding "like God using Radiohead as hand-puppets... like retarded Cherubs placing an order in a Korean restaurant...having them on the car stereo turns rolling through the Burger King drive-thru into a cinematic slo-mo transaction with sublime
eternities."
!!?!)It's Sigur Ros:
..
I confess that:
But porndoes!
On that topic,click here for a handful of funny (!) and (explicitly non-pornographic) video clips about porn!
I also want to come out of the closet about some other loves: reading, writing,music (See my endless; and endlessly eclectic music/book lists a bit below..) and uh, physics, the borders of neuroscience, the scientific study of time..including horology (!! I promise, it's not what it sounds like), cultural anthropology, and....
I cannot not mentionI the concept of "set theory"(Click here to read about it)..The church needs to act more like a "centered set"
Click here for some helpful diagrams.
...Then come back and interact with
this set experiment (Focus on the center, and the peripheral dots disappear...hmmm, kind like Matt 6:33)...
I mentioned physics, I especially mean re: space/time; most epecially "string theory" (whom I am thilled
to find has "her" (!) own MySpace page: click here!!)
The Brian Greene "Elegant Universe" book has been adapted into a PBS series, available here.
Another video clip here...this one not for everybody (myspace stalkers fall asleep here): a Princeton physicist on retrocausation (the future)somehow affecting the past), and the fabric of space/time. Many theological implications..especially when the Scripture speaks of the future Kingdom invading and affecting the present (see my article here).
Hairy Confession: I enjoy studying chaos theory, equilibrium, fractals, dimensionality and the arrow of time. Yeah, I'm serious.
Charts like this thrill me, and even lead me to prayer:
(and it beats porn).
And I do like epistemology,of course, you knew that…but how did you know that?
Love semiotics. It's a sign....
But don't worry, I also like riding my bike and hanging out. I am fairly normal.
Sigur Ros,
Bruce Cockburn, Passion Worship, Jason Upton, Sigur Ros, The Frames, Delirious,
Delirious en espanol and other tongues,
Something Like Silas(now known as The Future of Forestry), Steve Bell, Mozart, The Cure, Kevin Max, Radiohead, Coldplay (partly because Chris Martin is a worship leader)...try
this video...
,
Michael Knott/ Cush!, Don Henley, Dave Matthews, Peter Gabriel,
(how about Dave Matthews covering a Peter Gabriel "gospel song"? (Hereit is!)
VOL, Mutemath, Arcade Fire (partly for the '"insane and fertile religious images"), old Genesis/Rush/CCR/Clash, Neil Peart (Video interview), St.Vince Furnier,David Crowder,Chagall Guevara (watch this)/Steve Taylor (meet him at Jim Morrison's grave here,
(R.I.P. CHAGALL:
"Not since the Clash has a group turned militant discontent into passionate rock n roll." -Rolling Stone Magazine!)
....
The Prayer Chain (reunited once here),
Athlete(the one with an embarassing mother!), Michael Been/The Call, Robin Mark, David Ruis/Kedare(live bootleg here/Indingka, The Well worship CDs ,
The Sound Gallery, Brownsville Worship, Dylan, The Choir, Charlie Peacock, The Who (who can help the church keep from getting fooled again...watch this,Ellis Reed. my man from from Flower Mound, Texas, Arvo Part
,Boards of Canada, Steve Hackett, T-Bone Burnett, Christopher Parkening, Keith Green,
Johnny Cash, especially the day he got "hurt",
,The Dalton Brothers/Feedback, Rich Mullins, Zappa (!)Neil Young,Gravity Show, Switchfoot, John Coltrane, Passengers,The Golliwogs (Hi Ken), , Bach (seriously),
St. Sinead O'Connor...(check out this honest prayer of hers, and read all about her here...
..Hey, try out Iona, Moya Brennan, Michelle Tumes, et al
for a Celtic vibe, and tune in Keltic Ken's free .. Celtic radio station yesterday......
The Matrix (have fun with the clips
here and
here
...Grand Canyon, The Incredibles, Luther, Ghandi, The Truman Show,
Eleven Conversations About One Thing, Rattle and Hum, Sex Lies and Videotape, 2001, Silent Running, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Dream Team("Do you know why it's a brilliant manipulation of negative space, Ed?" "Because Jesus wants it that way!"), Parenthood, ET, Galaxy Quest..
What if Bruce Almighty" was one of us?
To watch w/my wife: While You Were Sleeping, Return to Me, Notting Hill
Television
..it's not that I think it's all evil and think you're evil for watching..I just don't really do
it. If I did I would like to simultaneously read "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" while I'm watching...just to be a
culture jammer.
Excuse the French, but the following sometimes summarizes my response to "What's on TV?":
From what I've heard from folks I trust, I think I might like "The Office,"...but I have never seen it...some have said I would like Seinfeld...
I have seen a few episodes of "Nova"..and readily confess to watching/loving "Sponge Bob"...
..
(episode continued here)
with my kids..I also saw some of this, good stuff...
I enjoy watching Colbert online..
Oh, and anyone remember that German theologian from my childhood: "Winky Dink"? Check him out here..
On a completely different (and non-Christian..thank God..) channel: bliss!
watch this historic clip: The Best Super Bowl halftime show in history...no, nothing to do w/Janet Jackson..it starts with a prayer of Psalm 51:15 (twice for good measure) and a memorial to 9/11 victims, actually..
Anyway, I will then hijack this topic to list a couple things I DO watch: magazines and websites:
magazines
Relevant, Paste, Wired, Christianity Today, Risen World, Leadership, Innovation and Technology, Scientific American, The Economist, Books and Culture, Wittenburg Door, What is Enlightenment, AdBusters, Geez,CCM,Rolling Stone, Mars Hill Journal(RIP!!), Utne Reader, Atlantic Monthly, Asbury Theological Journal, First Things
church and culture websites(an exhaustive/exhausting list on the right hand column of my blog here
Books
BOOKS?
my language!
I am
repentlessly
relentlessly
addicted.
I have thousands of books, thousands of favorites. Don't know where to start; so I'll start in the middle.
How about wild multi-disciplinary , genre-bending stuff like Douglas Hofstader'sGodel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
and "le Ton Beau de Marot" ....and then(terrible name zzzzzzzz/great book) Frank Lake's mastertome Clinical Theology?
Or church/culture/emergingish stuff by Leonard Sweet, Mark Driscoll, Rob Bell, Frost/Hirsch, Erwin MacManus and tribesters like that. A more philosophical title on church/postmodernity is Raschke's "The Next Reformation"
... Houses That Change the World (free here) is indispensable, and not just about house church. Can't wait for Len Hjalmarson's book(s)--many previews at nextreformation.com.
An example of how to do a biblical commentary as postmodern-sensitive midrash is Brian Walsh's Colossians Remixed.....Did someone say "midrash? How about a Twinkie Midrash with Chris Seay?
.
I like theologians/thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard, Moltmann, Brueggeman (a lot of the "manns" are good), Ellul...and how about chef, provacateur and right-brained priest Robert Farrar Capon's incredible books (many freebies of his here)...have to mention C.S. Lewis...
which of course (!?) traces me back to classics like Aristotle, Augustine,
de Causade, "secular mystics" a la E.M. Cioran
through (of course?) Watchman Nee's "Release of the Spirit"
...on to spiritual formation old and new: via Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Eugene Peterson, Maggi Dawn (and Marva Dawn for thar matter), John Piper, Evelyn Underhill, Madame Guyon
..But I am also spiritually formed by commentary on current issues/society like: Freakonomics, The World is Flat, The Tipping Point, Why the West Hates the Rest.
Go figure.
..books by Thomas Friedman, Lessig, and most of their third cousins:
Walter J. Ong, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Leonard Shlain all help me process language, media, orality, linear vs. nonlinear flow.
///and doesn't everybody enjoy Buckminster Fuller?
Heady (and heart-y) philosophical stuff that I pretend to understand:
Derrida,
Foucalt,
Ricouer
Hegel...hey, even C. Klostermann..
Works on the God-haunted secular culture by Craig Detweiler and Terry Mattingly,
Steve Beard
...
Great U2/church books linked on right-hand bar of my funky U2 blog.
Love physics, string theory, relativity : Brian Greene, Paul Davies, Machi Kaku, Einstein, Godel, and kin. Books connecting music and physics: "Einstein's Violin,"
"Longing for the Harmonies:Themes and Variations from Modern Physics"
, "The Divine Voice".....
I enjoy studies on synesthesia..particulary this one..
anthropology/culture/missions: from Pannenberg's "Anthropology in Theological Perspective", through Paul Hiebert, Eugene Nida, Edward T. Hall. How about "Readings in Missionary Anthropology," "The Geography of Thought." Who else on myspace has these on their nightstand..or toilet..contact me immediately for a St. Arbuck's!
Shameless plug for my friend Russ Willingham's books..especially for you sex addicts and pastors (hope you are not both @same time): click this for Russ's books.
I am only beginning. I have thousands of books, people say i speedread; but i dunno, I just do what I do..including read while in the car (not a typo for 'can,' though that locale is prime space, too!)..pray for me.
a short list of favorites is on my blogger profile
here
send amazon gift certificates to dave@3dff.com
Heroes
It feels too cliche to give the "obvious" answer for a follower of Jesus. Of course the answer is Jesus.
But on the "correct answer" being Jesus, I love how Steve Taylor(he's a hero of mine, too)'s song includes that aspect and also reverses the roles:
click this to hear it..
and the
lyrics are here..
All the saints in this photo are heroes because...well, they are in this photo..banned by the Vatican until the pope's death...undoctored, yes you are really seeing it:
So many of my friends are heroes..but I don't want to leave anyone out (especially Holy Rev. Nancy Boyd..yeah, one of my pastors is a..gasp!.. girl. Read this, and get over it.
About me:
A huge and holy Welcome!
Thanks for stopping by!
Who the heck am I? I am "just dave"...Dave Wainscott's twin, to be exact:
Convinced that church and culture are at a historic (hysteric) place where "SHIFT HAPPENS" in such a way that we can navigate being "enagaged to Jesus and engaging culture"...
I try to play my part, in part, in this holy shift, by serving as the chief dreamer,
abbott dude, goatherder (huh?),and cultural architect (translate="pastor") of third day fresno, a group of saints and sinners
seeking to be Jesus-anchored and non-religious.
Our church myspace page can be found by clicking here(while tapping heels and saying (in Yiddish) "There's no place like home"), and our Sunday gatherings are "off the map" for traditional church, but "on the map" at this link..
Who I'd like to meet:
In no particular order (I like to flow in "holy randomnity"):
-The reader, writer, and inpsirer (three different blokes..all three saints and Jewssaints and Jews)of this sound file,
-myself..
someday....
(By the way...great portrait of me here by 12-year old St. Joshua, who by the way has a spiritual gift of healing malfunctioning microwave ovens!!)
How could I not include:
Paul Hewson and Dave Evans...I see they are on Steve's list, too
(Glad I actually have met Steve, though). Anyway, I'll meet Paul and Dave on the next tour. In the meantime, here they are doing their "end times" song,a rare treat. Watch it now. Read about it here..To me, it beats what someone has called the "evangelical pornography" of the "Left Behind" novels..and besides U2 themselves, those cussing prophets (as no one less than Eugene Peterson has called them here), are signs of the end times, as another far more dorky, far less propehtic person has written
here..
...and finally, on that same vital topic (It's my site)here's footage of the same St. Paul preaching at the National Prayer Breakfast..
-Africans,
St. Mike Roe (In person, I mean, Mike. We'll eat at Iron John's if it kills us!).
(OK, for those not familiar with Mike, Here's actual video of Mike preaching one of the best sermons ever)
-Douglas Hofstadter; Clifford Pickover (who in turn has a list of 6,000 people to meet here),
Chef-priest Robert Farrar Capon,
Matt the Dancing Man (click his name to learn about him, or watch in awe below):
....
dddd:
dddddd:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead." Thank you. You are one of those people.
If there's ONE see of ours to come to this year its this one.... we're shooting a live video for "babylon" off our upcoming CD, and also shooting a segment for FUSE TV thats gonna be aired nationally! lets show them that Fresno's Music Scene is on the rise!
This is an ALL AGES show, so everyone gets in! - The Patrick Contreras Band
"Patrick always makes you want to either: dance, start filming because you know you're watching something special, or climb on top of a table or bar. " -TheFresnan. com
"Patrick is one of Fresno's most arresting young musical artists, on the verge of an international career
(click 
But porndoes!
On that topic,click 
(and it beats porn).
And I do like epistemology,of course, you knew that…but how did you know that?
Love semiotics. It's a sign....
But don't worry, I also like riding my bike and hanging out. I am fairly normal.
The Matrix (have fun with the clips
... Houses That Change the World (free 
So many of my friends are heroes..but I don't want to leave anyone out (especially Holy Rev. Nancy Boyd..yeah, one of my pastors is a..gasp!.. girl. Read 
