Today I joined some 160+ ministers and elder commissioners, and some visitors, at a called meeting of Heartland Presbytery. What follows is a long post about what transpired today, and my blogging about some of the events elsewhere under the moniker ‘kairos’. If you aren’t interested, or don’t have much patience for the inter-church squabbles [...]

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My friend Landon is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Liberty, Missouri. He’s a good guy, with lots of blogging ambition. He has a new venture, called Not That Calvin, that you might enjoy.

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Blogrolls are lists of other blogs on a particular subject. I’ve started expanding my blogrolls, and you might find some of the links of interest. Because of the number, for now they’re available through the ‘links’ tab above.
I plan a few categories:

decently and in order, for those blogging that claim affiliation with the presbyterian church [...]

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An early new-year’s resolution: I am going to start tending to Roeminations to make it a better blog. Don’t worry; I won’t wait until January to get started.
What makes for a good blog? This has long been an interesting question to me, but I think it is some combination of regular attention, original insight or [...]

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Roeminations went dormant just after Easter this year. Too much was going on in my life to tend well to this project: Jeff’s sabbatical, my beautiful girls, various other realities of life.
Southminster just went through the process of changing our webhosts from AT&T (nee SBC) to Dreamhost. We’ve gone this route for a few reasons, [...]

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Jan Edmiston is a pastor in the Washington DC area. She blogs with a probing mind and a heart for doing authentic ministry in the 21st century. Her blog is called A Church for Starving Artists, and I find myself going there regularly to learn from her. She challenges me, and us, with posts (like [...]

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This blog runs on software called Wordpress. Its installed on the internet service provider that I use to operate herringweb.net, and its being used to run thousands or millions of blogs worldwide. (People who don’t want to mess with having it run on their own isp can get a free wordpress blog at wordpress.com, or [...]

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A bit more difficult than I anticipated moving to a new template. But I’ve started to, and hope to have the blog up and running again soon….
I’d love to hear your comments about the new look and feel, too. You’ll notice that I’ve tried to integrate the old sanctuary picture and the capital improvement logo. [...]

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I’ve had an unexpected Blog Hiatus, but I’m back. I think it was the combination of advent preparations, kids, and the nuts and bolts of ministry. I hope you kept with me in the meantime.
There’s so much that’s interesting out there in the blogworld that it is impossible to keep up with it all. I [...]

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Its hard to blog while on a vacation, particularly the kind of vacation I’m in the midst of: mainly doctor’s checkups for the kiddos, working with contractors on neglected areas of the house, trying to clean up the home office, that sort of thing. But I did get off to see Casino Royale today. If [...]

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