May 14th, 2008
My book came from the printer early and is in stores now. But Amazon list it for delivery later. So, if you want it now head to a Barnes & Noble. I would but I am still in El Salvador.
While the official release date is June 2, I know it is in stores now.
I got this email from Mike Stavlund:
“funny thing– the lady at the B&N information desk looked in the computer and said it wouldn’t be out until June. Disappointed, I walked to the religion section to browse and found it on the shelf”
It might well be on the front tables at Barnes & Noble in June but for now yu might have to look for it. If you are willing to go head into a B&N and see if it is there that would be great. I would love to hear “I found the book reports” in the comment section here.
And if you get a copy a review on Amazon and B&N.com would be excellent.
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May 14th, 2008
We visited two Compassion sites on our second day.
This video includes the good work being done in training programs and a brief interview with the mom of a girl Mark Scandrette is sponsoring.
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May 13th, 2008
Here is a video from our first day visiting the Compassion headquarters in El Salvador.
They do an amazing job of connecting sponsors with the children. There are 33,000 children sponsored in El Salvador. And many of them are in written contact with their sponsors.
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May 12th, 2008
I am going to be in El Salvador this week on a “Familiarization Trip” with Compassion Internaltional.
Compassion is one of the sponsors of the Church Basement Roadshow this summer. As part of the tour we are going to be giving people the opportunity to sponsor a child. This trip is a chance to learn a bit more about what they do and allow is to shoot some video for the presentation.
I will be providing an opportunity for people to sign-up for sponsorship here on my site as well, so if you are interested keep your eyes open for that.
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May 9th, 2008
Got one in my sweet little hands right now.
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May 8th, 2008
The love of my life is being celebrated today. More photo to the right in the flickr photostream.
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May 8th, 2008
Sorry about that. I inadvertantly turned on the need to register in order to leave comments. For those who went through the process of registering double sorry.
It is off now, so comment away. Also, please remember my rule: no insulting or rude commenting. If you want to do that kind of thing use your own blog, or better yet, stop doing it all together.
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May 7th, 2008
A Christianity Worth Believing received a review at Publishers Weekly:
A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in Us All
Doug Pagitt. Jossey-Bass, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7879-9812-7
Pagitt, a leader in the Emergent church movement, came to faith as a teenager at a Passion play, but Christian theology often didn’t cohere with his own raw, powerful and inclusive experiences of and intuition about God. Here Pagitt tells his own story and weaves together a new theology for the Emergent movement, viewing Christian doctrine from a slightly different perspective and trying to break it out of the firm grasp of Greek thinking by returning it to its Jewish context, the way it would have been understood by first-century readers. To Pagitt, humanity’s fallen state as a result of sin should not be emphasized so much as God’s desire to partner with people to do good work in the world. The Bible is not so much about truth and error as it is a picture of God attempting to reconnect, while Jesus represents our potential to live in love and establish the kingdom of God now. Pagitt clearly articulates both the heart and theology of the Emergent movement. Conservative critics will no doubt consider this Christianity subtly twisted out of recognition, but postmodern readers struggling with current expressions of faith will see love and hope. (June)
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May 7th, 2008
I got the word today that A Christianity Worth Believing has arrived at the warehouse. Which means it will start moving out to book stores and online sellers this week.
So if you have pre-ordered the book it is on its way. If you have not pre-ordered, now is your time.
This is really fun, the book has been a long time in the making and a long time in the waiting between final writing and release - and release is almost here.
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May 5th, 2008
The headline pretty much says it all. I’m handing the reins of this post over to Jon White, web designer and developer (of, among other things, this site), who is taking a job this June in DC, and needs a place near/in the District to rent short-term while he gets his feet wet. Take it away, Jon…
Read the rest of this entry »
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May 4th, 2008
I was browsing around the world wide web today and ran across a podcast of a presentation I did at the Emerging Church for the Existing Church conference over at the Praxis Podcast.
In describing the presentation they posted a pull-quote from my talk. I remember saying this in the fly and thinking at the time - man, I liked that.
Then someone asked me to repeat it and I tried, so I am not sure if this is from the repeat or the first time, but I like it none the less.
Not only do I like it I think in some ways it represents a great opportunity and challenge for Christianity in our day.
“I think that Christianity is fundamentally a people movement that we should understand in social networking theory, not a belief system that we distribute through institutional applications and franchising models.”
So, now it is official - I actually quoted myself on my own blog - cripes.
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May 1st, 2008
Please come and join in the celebration of the release of A Christianity Worth Believing.
Saturday, June 7 - 7:30 – 10 PM at the Common Roots Café (2558 Lyndale Ave South Minneapolis)
The evening will include the music of treVeld, Common Roots Café refreshments and readings at 8 & 9 PM.
The book will be available to purchase for $20
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April 29th, 2008
So, 10 years a group of us started conversation and hanging around each other in order to find ways to add to our thinking, refine our faith, and add new skill sets in an effort to reimagine faith in our day.
At the time we had little idea where it would go, but we ate, laughed, talked, talked, and talked.
And we traveled. One such travel was to New Mexico for an event. The event was sponsored by my then employer Leadership Network.
Well, the other day an enveloped arrived in the mail. It contained pictures and a note. They were from DJ Chuang, who now works for Leadership Network.
The note said, “figured you could do more with these pix than me”.
Got that right I thought, thems is blog worthy.
So from a decade ago a few shots including Sally Morgenthaller, Brian McLaren, Mark Driscoll, Andrew Jones and a younger, glasses and vest wearing me.
Wow. 10 years seems like a long time ago.
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April 25th, 2008
I have been a fan of the show Desperate Housewives since it first came on the air in 2004. In fact the first season is the among the best narrative preaching I have ever heard - it is so good.
Two weeks ago they aired an episode on church that I thought was terrific. The entire episode is worth watching and you can here. I cut out 11 minutes worth of the Lynette storyline and have posted it here
It is in my wheelhouse of opinion about church and the role of people, sermons and the pastor. Watching it I kept saying, “uh huh…
If you want my take on this it is in my book 
But, this version might even say it better.
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April 22nd, 2008
Tony has as great first webisode video for The New Christians.
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April 21st, 2008
You ought to buy this book.
My friend Brent has written a gem of a book.
He is Quaker (so he digs oatmeal and an entire set of practices that many traditions are not as familiar with) and has written a book to help other understand the beauty of the practice of Spiritual Discernment. Discernment is a practice that has been well kept by the Quakers.
The book is not only great on the inside, but looks fabulous.
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April 21st, 2008
Being just weeks out from the release of A Christianity Worth Believing reviews are starting to roll in.
Here is one from my friend Aaron Niequist - who has just released his own fabulous CD
and is married to Shawna who authored the terrific book Cold Tangerines.
I read your book yesterday, nearly strait through on a flight (which is unheard of for Mr. A.D.D.) Read the rest of this entry »
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April 17th, 2008
I just returned from my trip to Seattle for the Seeds of Compassion event. What a special couple of days.
I made a video of my reflection of the event. I have picture in my flickr page - you can see them by following the link on the right side (if you are actually on dougpagitt.com and not just reading the RSS feed).
The long and short of it was that I was on a panel with Desmond Tutu and 8 other people. The topic was “what do we do to build compassion” in young people of our communities. As it turned out I was one of the only panelists who was from a particular community. So many of the other responses were more big ideas than practical suggestions.
To watch the webcast go of the panel here and scroll to Tuesday. The linked both panels together so it is like 4 hours long. My part is about the 3:40 and 4:00
Here is a screen grab of the panel.
The video below are my reflections on the entire event.
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April 13th, 2008
On Monday I am heading to Seattle for the Seeds of Compassion Event.
I am part of a breakfast and panel on Tuesday. The session can be viewed on the website.
I will be doing my own updates of pictures, audio and maybe some video here.
On Wednesday I will be in Portland with the Evergreen Community. Bob Hyatt is hosting a get together Wednesday night that is open to all. You can contact Bob at info@evergreenlife.org if you are interested in joining us.
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