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Comment on my life is changing again by Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:29:12 +0000

thanks friends

Comment on my life is changing again by Amy Mod

Amy Mod — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:37:34 +0000

I’m pretty sure I can say (without disrespecting your mother in the slightest) that you will be moving into the cleanest house you have ever lived in, or at least that started off the cleanest. I mean, really, who would clean the tops of each pipe in the basement and Lysol ALL surfaces unless absolutely necessary?

Comment on my life is changing again by Steve Jaeger

Steve Jaeger — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:59:26 +0000

And Champaign is looking forward to it!

Comment on my life is changing again by John Dyer

John Dyer — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:36:55 +0000

Congrats man!

Comment on Our Great Brain | The Information by Gleick by Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:42:16 +0000

Sorry I missed your comment earlier, Adam. Short answer (and this is typical of what I’d say, I think)…. the Internet is not a parody of the Church as body, it becomes an extension of it. It enhances some abilities of that Body and diminishes others…

Comment on Our Great Brain | The Information by Gleick by Adam

Adam — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:29:11 +0000

I’d like to turn the question back on you, Chris. What are the Internet’s implications on the Church as body? Can the Internet facilitate the Church as Body? Or is it a parody of the Church as body? Or something third possibility?

Comment on What is media ecology? by The Alphabet & Ecologies « janamalos

The Alphabet & Ecologies « janamalos — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:32:34 +0000

[...] Levinson’s article The First Digital Medium defines the concept of a ‘Media Ecology’ as the study of human beings and their relationship to media and the environment these forms [...]

Comment on resetting my netflix device with a konami code by Jordan Castille

Jordan Castille — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:43:32 +0000

Got to love the Contra cheat code!

Comment on Reflecting on Ecclesia 2012 by Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:57:18 +0000

Hey man: yeah, SJ Swoboda spoke some on Jesus as King over politics… and some more down to earth of what it may be like to be a polarized church. Not lots more: would be a cool overall topic.

Comment on Reflecting on Ecclesia 2012 by Gordon Hackman

Gordon Hackman — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:01:35 +0000

I would love to hear more about speaking Jesus into Republican and Democrat talking points. One of these days, I will make one of these gatherings.

Comment on Top 10 TwitterQuotes of Ecclesia 2012 by theo|digital » Reflecting on Ecclesia 2012

theo|digital » Reflecting on Ecclesia 2012 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:56:54 +0000

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Comment on Broadcast Media Shaped Evangelicals | Drescher by Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:10:44 +0000

Yeah, I think the trend is broader than the 1950s in some ways: might even go back to the America Tract Society, which was the evangelical (anachronistically termed) response to the rise of mass literacy.

So that makes some sense to me: I’ll have to check out the book

Comment on Broadcast Media Shaped Evangelicals | Drescher by Rob

Rob — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:09:59 +0000

Chris,
Have you read the book by Lisa Shaver, Beyond the Pulpit? I think the way that she looks at the rhetoric of the antebellum religious press in the Methodist church is very similar to what you are talking about with Evangelicals. It might be worth a read (less than 200 pages).

Comment on Gospel and Israel | Scot McKnight by Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:32:56 +0000

Hey man! Good to hear ya.

Yeah, Fitch can sometimes come off a little bit cranky and likes to push buttons sometimes. But you gotta respect him. If you read his post, you notice he refers directly to the links you give above: Trevor Wax and Michael Horton among them. And he has some precedent for feeling a little touchy on the issue: some of the “back to the gospel” bloggers are coming from a strong Reformed position and often define the gospel including double-predestination and atonement as *only forensic penal substitution–sorta subtly implying that lots of other gospel-loving protestants really don’t get the gospel. Hardly everyone, but it’s been a thing.

BUT that’s not really a bone I’m trying to pick.

Although Scot really does have in mind partly this crowd. I think it’s fair to anticipate somewhat critical response at least from some quarters. We’re getting back into the “New Perspective on Paul” idea too here, which has Piper and NT Wright writing pretty intense books back and forth. Scot’s on the NT Wright side (Jimmy Dunn, actually), so again, sorta fair to anticipate some criticism from the Gospel Coalition.

But Scot isn’t an antagonistic writer, and I read the book thinking: boy, this hopefully will continue to be a good conversation anchor.

Have you read it?

Comment on Gospel and Israel | Scot McKnight by Westy

Westy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:31:31 +0000

Hey Chris!
I’ve been following your posts on this with interest. I’ll be curious to see you continued ‘review’ as your posts on John Dyer’s book were phenomenal.

One note. In your original post you noted that Fitch was wondering why no reviews from TGC. I do think his post title was unfortunate as it was intentionally antagonistic, and I think inappropriate as I don’t anticipate such a critical response. I’m not sure why he finds/seeks such antagonism?

Anyway, I wanted to pass on a few links where it was indeed reviewed/referenced there:
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2011/11/01/what-god-has-joined-together-the-story-and-salvation-gospel/?comments#comments
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/09/14/the-king-jesus-gospel/
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/10/13/are-you-a-soterian-horton-reviews-mcknight/

The reviews seem to consider the book a good one even if not all are in complete agreement. I look forward to seeing yours or Scot’s responses.

Comment on The Smartphone is Human | John Dyer by Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:48:16 +0000

Antoine – oh, I think I meant something different with “human.” Maybe “human-like” is better. I’m not intending to say that smartphones are humans or speaking of something like artificial intelligence/sentience. I’m saying that our interaction and use of them is somewhat “natural” to the condition of being human. It’s not robotic or or weird or out-of-character for us to use them. They modify and amplify functions we already to (think, emote, relate, etc).

Comment on The Smartphone is Human | John Dyer by Antoine RJ Wrighht

Antoine RJ Wrighht — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:48:03 +0000

Interesting. Can a smartphone be sentient without the network? Is the current mode of smartphones too passive/reactive to be sentient?

I’m not going to call it human, because we have not yet seen a smartphone demonstrate reason. I think we’ll get to another mode/means/medium of communication before that happens.

Comment on The Gospel gospel? | Scot McKnight by theo|digital » The Resurrection for Style Points | Scot McKnight

theo|digital » The Resurrection for Style Points | Scot McKnight — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:31:30 +0000

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Comment on Machine Gun Brings World Peace | John Dyer by Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:15:34 +0000

That’s true on internet stuff. And freedom from prejudice because of the “equalizing factor” (reading lots of awkwardly optimistic articles by feminist theologians in the early 90s).

don’t know of any related McLuhan comments. Did you find any quotes?

Comment on Machine Gun Brings World Peace | John Dyer by Adam

Adam — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:03:56 +0000

People have said the same thing about the Internet, it will bring world peace. I think McLuhan predicted it would bring more war.