Jonsi “Go” album of Sigur Ros

Posted on April 6, 2010

Jonsi of Sigur Ros releases his first solo album “Go” tomorrow. You can stream it free now. Think of Sigur Ros but happier! 🙂

What Critics Are Saying

replacing the abiding sense of melancholy you get from sigur ros albums with a child-like joyousness that dares you not to break out in a huge grin *****
- the times

a phenomenal record with almost every bar bursting with beauty. has ‘pop’ music ever sounded this wonderful?****1/2
- music omh

it does cartwheels when it bloody well feels like it, cries when it wants to, and raises the bar for song writers like sufjan stevens who share similarly heady classical predilections. 8/10
- paste magazine

Big Issues Facing the Church

Posted on April 5, 2010

If you are curious about how Austin City Life is trying to address some of the big issues facing the church, take a few minutes to read through Tim Keller’s brief essay “How Do We Handle the Big Issues of the Church.” Although these are not the Top 5 Issues in general for Austin City Life, they are in important.

In brief, here are the five issues. Feel free to comment. Do you agree, disagree?

1. The local church has to support culture-making.

2. We need a renewal of apologetics.

3. We need a great variety of church models.

4. We must develop a far better theology of suffering.

5. We need a critical mass of churches in the world’s largest cities.

Viral Hope Arrives!

Posted on April 3, 2010

I just received 25 copies of Viral Hope: Good News from the Urbs to the Burbs. As read the last section of the book today, I was inspired by the good writing and ministry reflected in these short essays. The unique contribution of this book is its collection of 50 local voices articulating the gospel in their own context. It’s inspiring to read stories of how the hope of the Good News of Jesus is making its way into so many places in the world.

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Will glo Bible Replace Bound Bible?

Posted on April 3, 2010

GLO is the brainchild of Nelson Saba, a Brazilian evangelical Christian who was once, before his conversion, a technology vice president at Citibank. Three years ago, he joined forces with Phil Chen, a Taiwanese businessman whose family has an interest in the publicly traded company HTC, manufactures handheld wireless devices designed to compete with the iPhone.

Chen, 31, comes from generations of devout Christians and is a Christian minister himself, trained and ordained at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. He was in Afghanistan building schools and orphanages for poor kids when he started thinking about the ways in which he could use technology for a good cause. “If I give this,” he told me, gesturing at his cell phone, “to a child, I’m not giving him a book. I’m giving him a library, a university, a future.”

HT: Newsweek