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Re: orange you the conference guy?

William Woo — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:50:54 -0000

DJ,

I love orange too. Being a UTEP alum, and UT fan, so many kinds of orange. I also have an orange bible, ESV.

Keep on Blogging...

-William

Re: orange you the conference guy?

djchuang — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:43:34 -0000

@davidw - yes, that is the "Books of the Bible" TNIV edition, and I do love reading that edition because of its layout. For some reason, it is much more inviting to read, with its paragraph formatted text, no verse numbers to distract, and not paraphrased. The soft cover and color is inviting too :)

Re: orange you the conference guy?

Chris — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:29:07 -0000

You raise a number of valid points. Since most of my work-year is spent helping to plan the CCDA conference, I resonate with the idea of releasing the conference content for free. Right now we make it available to everyone a year after the conference takes place (3 months later for our attendees/members...yeah...I know) but I am interested in the more open-content application. I'm also really interested in the idea of making our resources more regionally available. There's already institute classes, but they are less accessible than a regional conference would be. Who knows though...some big changes could be in the works.

Re: orange you the conference guy?

David — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:55:24 -0000

hey.. is that the Books of the Bible TNIV you are toting?
Love that translation and layout.

Re: orange you the conference guy?

David — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:53:31 -0000

I love the opportunity to connect that these things provide as well. With the connections being the most meaningful thing I am hoping we see a lot more Local Conferences where folks are even dissuaded from attending if it means a plane ticket.

This comes from becoming a skeptic toward big box solutions and strategies and a disinterest with flocking to a location to hear the latest celebrities.

I hope for more and more of a trend toward local and communal in our church conferencing. We absolutely need to be encouraging and connecting, but maybe we can do it in a 100 mile diet sort of way that will make possible long term connections and truly shared experiences.

oh.. and TED rocks.. (just to totally discredit myself)

Re: orange you the conference guy?

cynthiaware — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:43:18 -0000

You at Awaken at Mosaic...... I'd know this photo anywhere.

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Doug Pagitt — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:22:17 -0000

Great idea. Tony Jones and I have started a company to do just that - JoPa Productions.

Our first is The Great Emergence with Phyllis Tickle in December - www.thegreatemergence.com