Random Acts of Linkage #135

Now how’s that for a nearly-random image? My Random Acts of Linkage posts have been fairly popular over the last 134 installments. Maybe part of that was because it always gave people something to read on Saturday mornings. Over the last many months they’ve dropped off from being every Saturday to being more well, random in their frequency. So here we are with installment #135 of my Random Acts of Linkage, now with added randomness! I just wanted to give people more of what they like. Who says I don’t respond to the demands of my readers?

Actually, while I’m at it… I’ve been thinking about these random links posts, and why I don’t seem to have as much to put into them. I decided it’s because of Twitter. If you follow me over there, you’ll see that my links now usually get tweeted rather than dumped into a post like this one. Bearing that in mind, I’ve appended my tweets dating back to before Christmas — you’ll find those below the regular random linkage, and should find more linkage buried therein. Along with the usual Twitteresque pith and vinegar.

So. Enjoy.

1. New Year’s Resolution Generator
2. The Decade in Words
3. Alcott: ‘Not The Little Woman You Thought She Was’
4. New Research: Why Never Spanking Might Be Worse for Kids Than Spanking Them
5. 10 types of emerging church that will no longer upset your grandfather
6. A Biblical Response to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
7. What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff? — Shane Claiborne in Esquire
8. Gumby creator dies aged 88 — Art Clokey was also the creator of Davey and Goliath
9. Kathy Escobar is rethinking the word “pastor”
10. Jordon Cooper: Why I am still a friend of Emergent (even if we don’t talk that much anymore)
11. A Pocket History of Milton J. Wurtleburtle
12. Multi-Site Churches in USA Today
13. It’s the season for best-of-decade lists, but here’s one with a twist: The Best Movies of the Decade, 2010-2019
14. New From Hasbeen Village Games! (Too funny!)
15. What would a virtual church gathering look like if it were in real life?
16. cartoon: hole in the floor
17. How NOT to respond to the Church’s “masculinity crisis”
18. This is creepy: 2COR4:6, JN8:12 and other favorite Bible verses to engrave on machine gun sights
19. Lots of Love for the Emerging Church

Here’s what you’ve missed on Twitter the last, er while…

1. Dan Edelen’s charismaniac warning – Bentley & Co are at it again. http://bit.ly/6KNuuX 11:00 AM Jan 22nd from TweetDeck
2. I like my kids, really, I do… but some days, dang. Litter of 2, not yet housebroken, free to a good home. 5:02 PM Jan 21st from TweetDeck
3. RT @tallskinnykiwi: mark driscoll goes to haiti. good on him! video http://bit.ly/56IpBt 8:45 AM Jan 21st from TweetDeck
4. With all the ‘best-of’ lists for the last decade, here’s one for the *next* decade: http://bit.ly/647afh 7:45 AM Jan 21st from web
5. RT @kinnon: Does 9 Marks believe missional = social gospel = not the Gospel? http://bit.ly/5fbkmX Apparently they do. [via @stevekmccoy ] 7:06 AM Jan 21st from TweetDeck
6. Why are cops on TV always tasting heroin and cocaine with their finger? You’d think half the DEA would be high at any given point in time. 6:30 PM Jan 20th from TweetDeck
7. RT @badbanana: When I’m down, I ask myself what Buffalo Bill would do. Then I shoot 100 bison from a train and the world makes sense again. 6:55 AM Jan 20th from TweetDeck
8. RT @julieclawson: Hey – Focus on the Family, I dare you to take your Superbowl ad money and give it to Haiti. 5:31 PM Jan 19th from TweetDeck
9. Now spinning in the PC coffee-cup holder: Be Good Tanyas 8:22 AM Jan 19th from TweetDeck
10. Thinking there’s a better way to gauge unity than by doctrinal agreement. Can I get an amen? 7:44 AM Jan 19th from API
11. RT @lizdyer: The devil writes Pat Robertson a letter (I love it!) http://tiny.cc/oirUD <– brilliant! 8:15 AM Jan 18th from TweetDeck
12. Maryanne. (In case anyone was wondering.) 5:15 PM Jan 16th from TweetDeck
13. When your kids are telling you two opposing views of events, do you ever just feel like flipping a coin? 11:18 AM Jan 15th from TweetDeck
14. RT @tallskinnykiwi: Haiti and the Debil: Somebody DUPED US! http://bit.ly/4WD2dV <– Amazing stuff. True story. 9:32 AM Jan 15th from TweetDeck
15. RT @kathyescobar: some of the differences between cultivating communities & building churches – up at the carnival http://bit.ly/6Dw5hK 8:33 PM Jan 14th from TweetDeck
16. RT @obsrvationalist: Ignore Pat Robertson. Shaming that ilk only ratifies their dogmatic perversions // Matthew 5:10-12 8:24 AM Jan 14th from TweetDeck
17. Oh, did I mention #PatRobertsonDoesntSpeakForMe ? What an idiot; guilty of theological malpractice. True story. http://bit.ly/5cSBsf 2:56 PM Jan 13th from TweetDeck
18. RT @BlindBeggar: Updated my basic missional reading list here: http://twurl.nl/2by8yu 2:54 PM Jan 13th from TweetDeck
19. #PatRobertsonDoesntSpeakForMe – True story. http://bit.ly/5cSBsf 2:50 PM Jan 13th from TweetDeck
20. RT @knightopia: Nintendo Wii + Netflix = me, very happy! http://is.gd/6bMMk 5:53 AM Jan 13th from TweetDeck
21. RT @toderash: Gumby creator Art Clokey died Friday at age 88. http://bit.ly/8EWrwB <– remember Davey & Goliath? 5:46 PM Jan 12th from TweetDeck
22. RT @XIANITY: POLL: Billy Graham most beloved Christian figure; Number two, Larry the Cucumber. 8:13 AM Jan 12th from TweetDeck
23. RT @EllePyke: RT: @robertlancaster : When we lose our story we lose our hope… 7:29 PM Jan 11th from TweetDeck
24. RT @EllePyke: Dear Emergent: Were we ever friends? http://xrl.us/bgsj4k 10:50 AM Jan 11th from TweetDeck
25. @adamwc thought you were talking about iPr0n for a minute there… (is there anything Apple won’t design?) 9:28 AM Jan 11th from TweetDeck in reply to adamwc
26. The Decade Ahead for the Emerging Church http://bit.ly/74N40H <– posted yeserday, for those who may have missed it. 7:17 AM Jan 11th from TweetDeck
27. RT @BlindBeggar RT @kinnon: @BroMaynard w/last word on emerging/ent™ church… and the word after that: http://bit.ly/7x8B3S <– thx 4 that! 2:05 PM Jan 10th from TweetDeck
28. @kinnon @BlindBeggar We much enjoyed Julie & Julia as well; I was only guy in theatre. Good luck w/blog-movie, Bill… produce it yourself? 7:22 PM Jan 9th from TweetDeck in reply to kinnon
29. RT @JPBarlow: Listen to your enemy, for God is talking. – Yiddish proverb 3:09 PM Jan 9th from TweetDeck
30. RT @kinnon: RT @BlindBeggar: God and Marriage — http://twurl.nl/jomdlh. Amen and Amen 2:55 PM Jan 9th from TweetDeck
31. Reading: why Jordon Cooper is still a friend of Emergent even though they don’t talk much anymore http://bit.ly/7nX5N7 8:43 AM Jan 9th from TweetDeck
32. thanks for retweets, good peeps! @marthawatt @DashHouse @q0rban @bensternke @Jason_A_Coker @igneousquill @kinnon 7:42 PM Jan 8th from TweetDeck
33. RT @lensweet: TD “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” General Eric Shineski 12:42 PM Jan 8th from TweetDeck
34. @knightopia @brambonius thanks – I’ve rebooted the database, site still not snappy, but loads alright. lmk if otherwise! 10:19 AM Jan 8th from TweetDeck in reply to knightopia
35. RT @kgrace Authentic christian leader. Oxymoron? or Rare species? Color me jaded. <– endangered species. 9:46 AM Jan 8th from TweetDeck
36. Grey. Both of them. #colorofmysocks 7:56 AM Jan 8th from TweetDeck
37. RT @obsrvationalist: RT @MarkShepard: If you choke a Smurf what color does it turn? | HAHA! 6:46 AM Jan 8th from TweetDeck
38. @adamwc haven’t tried bluehost, but would happily recommend @dreamhost http://bit.ly/7Kxiur (affiliate link) 3:35 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck in reply to adamwc
39. RT @BlindBeggar: Help @edstetzer write a study bible article on missional churches — http://twurl.nl/y3l6jp 2:44 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck
40. RT @obsrvationalist: HAHA!! RT @MulliganJimmy: Use the best: Linux for servers, Mac for graphics and Windows for solitaire. <– #loveit! 11:25 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck
41. RT @thrillerchick: Drowning in Interesting-Things-to-Read-on-the-Net? Here’s how to cope http://bit.ly/5zEGIV / great, one more link to read 10:08 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck
42. @adamwc #iheartpopmusic <– are grownups allowed to listen to Miley Cyrus? Or only until they’re 30? 9:56 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck in reply to adamwc
43. RT @djword: Obituary for the Emerging Church- http://bit.ly/58BHJo 9:17 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck
44. RT @obsrvationalist: RT @FluidityYoga: Expectations are resentments under construction. — Anne Lamott 9:06 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck
45. RT @signpoststeve: I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.- … 6:32 AM Jan 7th from web
46. RT @alanhirsch: Luther said that we should live as if Jesus died yesterday, rose today, and is coming back tomorrow! Talk about stress! 9:02 PM Jan 6th from TweetDeck
47. @NextReformation with the same participants? ;^) 7:58 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck in reply to NextReformation
48. RT @Ed: From @MichaelHyatt: If you are a blogger, you can get FREE books from Thomas Nelson. Here’s how http://is.gd/AeXm 6:05 PM Jan 2nd from TweetDeck
49. RT @badbanana: That one set of carbon footprints in the sand is when Jesus carried me and my 60-inch plasma TV. 9:15 AM Jan 2nd from TweetDeck
50. Finish this sentence: “Hey, 2009, Immaletyoufinish, but the best year of the decade was ____!” 3:55 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck
51. It’s Christmastide – Retweet the Sounding Joy! 12:23 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck
52. RT @makeesha: Pastor Rick Warren urgently asks faithful for $900,000 – OC Watchdog http://post.ly/GmAt <– also shaking my head. 9:21 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck
53. RT @edstetzer: Breaking big news from Newsweek: “Study finds spankings not always bad,” http://is.gd/5Hm3O (OK, it was only news to them.) 7:02 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck
54. Time to be making pancakes. Double recipe. 6:38 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck
55. @sonjaquilts Well, by the time the gravy needed preparing, my mother-in-law was on the scene…. 7:24 AM Dec 26th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to sonjaquilts
56. Both refrigerators are now stuffed to the gills and the side-table is still strewn with various baked goods and chocolate treats. #grazing 8:04 PM Dec 25th, 2009 from TweetDeck
57. In case anyone was still worried and praying fervently: the turkey turned out just fine, as did the stuffing. Make that a WIN for me. 8:02 PM Dec 25th, 2009 from TweetDeck
58. Basting the turkey… 10:07 AM Dec 25th, 2009 from TweetDeck
59. Turkey’s in the oven & fingers are crossed. 7:34 AM Dec 25th, 2009 from TweetDeck
60. There is no way so effective for establishing peace as to simply begin practicing it. 1:24 PM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck
61. Gotta go buy the turkey today (fresh this year, not frozen) and look up a stuffing recipe. 6:20 AM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck
62. RT @tyme: felt bad abt amount of stuff I’m throwing out lately so made trash guys hot chocolate this morn. They were surprised <– awesome. 8:09 AM Dec 23rd, 2009 from TweetDeck
63. @lensweet: “2 Most Famous Innkeepers give Intensive Care & Hospitality in difficult circumstances (Bethlehem & Jericho Rd)” | + Hotel Rwanda 7:15 AM Dec 23rd, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to lensweet
64. Watching 2012. The disaster movie to end all disaster movies? 9:37 PM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck
65. @obsrvationalist …so which Dan do we have today? 8:44 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to obsrvationalist
66. 31 days from now my friend @obsrvationalist will own <100 things; blogging his transformation at http://bit.ly/5sQVxM – this is one to watch 8:09 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck
67. RT @jonestony: “Tinsel is really snakes’ mirrors.” -Stephen Wright @hankstuever 7:08 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck
68. @kootenayrev love Stuart McLean’s “Dave Cooks the Turkey” …have visions fulfilling it this yr Note to self: turkey gravy on lightbulbs… 12:36 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to kootenayrev
69. So hypothetically, if YOUR wife said YOU had to cook the turkey for Christmas dinner, would that include the stuffing and gravy? #help! 11:29 AM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck
70. RT @kim: 52 Stunning Long Exposure Photographs http://bit.ly/54IKiH RT @Flipbooks <– stunning, absolutely. 7:34 AM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck
71. RT @toderash: RT @kim: Google Reader is Wrong by @davewiner http://tnw.to/9Ofj rt @TheNextWeb <– are you reading your news all wrong? 7:27 AM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck
72. RT @MenwithPens: I wonder what they’d call the album if AC/DC did a Xmas one… <– it boggles the mind… 7:24 AM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck
73. RT @sonjaquilts: @bromaynard @BlindBeggar which is not to say it’s = to NT … just that we shouldn’t dismiss it either <– well put! 6:30 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from TweetDeck
74. RT @sonjaquilts: @BlindBeggar @bromaynard – actually – who’s to say the Didache wasn’t inspired or authoratative? <– Council of Trent? 6:28 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from TweetDeck
75. @sonjaquilts Hold on, one more comin’ up… give you something to think about while you’re snowed in! 6:20 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to sonjaquilts
76. New Post: ( http://subversiveinfluence.com/2009/12/introverts-in-a-church-for-extroverts-jesus-creed/ ) 5:57 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from API
77. New Post: ( http://subversiveinfluence.com/2009/12/3346-revision/ ) 5:57 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from API
78. New Post: ( http://subversiveinfluence.com/?p=3346 ) 5:57 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from API
79. @BlindBeggar The Didache/NT authority question is a straw man… nobody’s said Did. = scripture. 5:32 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to BlindBeggar
80. @BlindBeggar I thought @jonestony was clear enough that the Didache wasn’t on par w/NT, but it does give insight into early church practice. 5:30 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to BlindBeggar
81. @bobhyatt Yup! I think you had some good concerns, but assigned more cause for concern than warranted this time. Just my take of course! 5:27 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to bobhyatt
82. RT @truckerfrank: RT @jonestony: A couple reviews of Teaching of the 12 posted http://ow.ly/16blnt <– I think Bob missed this one imho. 12:13 PM Dec 19th, 2009 from TweetDeck
83. Just wrapped up a conference call between the 7 missional tribe instigators. Wonderful visit, forgot to talk about the tribe site. 10:57 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck
84. @scotmcknight not recently, but the ads are kinda offputting; some of what you resisted before beliefnet, which was beautiful site visually. 10:19 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to scotmcknight
85. RT @kootenayrev: Jesus Creed (@scotmcknight) = really great blog [visually] ruined by Beliefnet <!– sorry Scot, but it’s true RSS to rescue 9:58 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck
86. RT @fastcompany: Florida bans Judges from “friending” lawyers, define “friendship” interesting social networking effect http://bit.ly/7K518d 12:32 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck
87. RT @adamwc: Dang. I just realized next week is Christmas. CRAZY. <– yeah, what he said. 7:08 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck
88. Listening to CBC Podcast: Malcolm Gladwell on The Current – MP3 Link http://bit.ly/85Ln0i 11:25 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck
89. Thanks for mentions & ff’s @paulswaronlove @erinstandefer @wallybock @obsrvationalist 8:30 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck
90. RT @JPBarlow: For every 10 people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you’re lucky to find 1 who’s hacking at the roots. – Thoreau 8:24 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck
91. RT @ahc: A statement on the “prosperity gospel”—excellent work from Lausanne leaders http://bit.ly/4QekM5 7:01 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck
92. I think the future just zoomed by into the past. Wait, here it comes again… 10:04 AM Dec 11th, 2009 from web
93. #followfriday @sierranoble – because she wants to hit 1,000 followers. Is it a Possibility? http://bit.ly/4tGeRZ (beautiful earworm!) 7:59 AM Dec 11th, 2009 from API
94. RT @joethorn: Praise God for good jazz. <– Amen, that. 7:10 AM Dec 11th, 2009 from TweetDeck
95. RT @cubfann: only 1 substantive diff between online church & brick/mortar church: where they meet http://bit.ly/1cXnDR #baitingbobhyatt 11:04 AM Dec 8th, 2009 from TweetDeck
96. @kgrace ouch, the marching of time. otoh, have you repainted the room yet? 8:36 PM Dec 7th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to kgrace
97. RT @kim: RT @Alyssa_Milano: Genius! http://bit.ly/4X7E8k #Christmas (via @mparent77772) 8:21 PM Dec 7th, 2009 from TweetDeck
98. The tree is now trimmed. 3:40 PM Dec 6th, 2009 from TweetDeck
99. I’ve got a new blog post up on chapter 6 of @jonestony ‘s *The Teaching of the Twelve* http://bit.ly/6ypDZA 7:38 AM Dec 5th, 2009 from TweetDeck
100. Stop the presses! I just remembered I also have a blog! …and a new post on the #didache http://bit.ly/4BCm83 (intro to @jonestony ‘s book) 12:43 PM Dec 4th, 2009 from TweetDeck
101. If I was tweeting without a pseudonym, I’d be @toderash . Just sayin’. 10:34 AM Dec 4th, 2009 from TweetDeck
102. @adamwc: @bromaynard Sorry man….;) <!– well, as long as it’s nothing *I* did! 9:34 AM Dec 4th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to adamwc
103. Unnerved whenever @adamwc ‘s avatar shows up in my timeline yelling at me. 9:30 AM Dec 4th, 2009 from TweetDeck
104. Reading The Didache and enjoying some digging… watch for a post tomorrow on the new book by @jonestony 7:56 AM Dec 4th, 2009 from TweetDeck
105. How do I get #tweetdeck columnts to be narrower than “narrow”? 7:15 AM Dec 4th, 2009 from TweetDeck
106. @meaganfisher ” There needs to be a word for people who are both web designers and developers” – overworked? 1:59 PM Dec 3rd, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to meaganfisher
107. Hope my wife doesn’t miss the corner I just cut from the chocolate cake she baked this morning. 11:16 AM Dec 3rd, 2009 from TweetDeck
108. @emergingmummy @bromaynard *snicker* You and your big CBC words. <– Rex Murphy is my hero! ;^) 5:16 PM Dec 1st, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to emergingmummy
109. @emergingmummy who you calling an easterner? I take umbrage! 4:47 PM Dec 1st, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to emergingmummy
110. New idea: you’ve heard of “house concerts” – why not “house conferences”? (or un-conferences, even) http://bit.ly/7duig4 6:48 AM Nov 30th, 2009 from web
111. RT @adamwc: don’t buy @SamirSelmanovic‘s book “It’s Really All About God.” His daughters tell you why here: http://bit.ly/8UgdRK <– I like. 8:59 PM Nov 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck