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Subscribe to CommentsBack from vacation Up North (f you seek a pleasant peninsula–look about you!). Spent all day yesterday cleaning up my home office, where my praying space is. In Mystically Wired I have a little section on making a physical space for prayer in your home or apartment and keeping that one spot clear for prayer. No paying bills or arguing with your wife in that space. A set apart place.
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If you’re a young pastor, chances are you’re electronically connected: emailing, text messaging, Facebook, all the day long. And you know this has an addictive quality. The brain is wired to be alert and curious about any new information. And electronic media delivers! We consume triple the daily information that we did (er, I did) in 1960. While new media brings myriad advantages, you know in your bones that it’s also a curse: a steady stream of white noise that leaves you feeling a mile wide and an inch deep.
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Nine years ago today we were all breathing a sigh of relief about the Y2K disaster that didn’t materialize. Evangelicals more than most. Because for some reason many evangelicals and fundamentalists bought the idea that the world was headed for a techno-cataclysm. Why would we be so alarmed by Y2K and so apathetic about the environmental crisis we are facing, including climate change?
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