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Broadcasting fear

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My local NBC affiliate LOVES playing up their nightly fear-a-thons during their primetime teasers.

It seems like every night we see breaking news about a rapist, a string of murders, a string of burglaries, or any other number of horrifying stories they can pull off the nightly police scanners.

“Tonight at 10… why police are asking women to be on the lookout for a suspected rapist…”

“A string of burglaries have hit a North Texas neighborhood… what the thieves are after and how you can protect your stuff… tonight at 10.”

“Poison apples are making a comeback in schools… how to protect your kids from the threat of evil lunch ladies…”

(OK I definitely made the last one up.)
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The Church is…

Here’s another great tidbit from Tall Skinny Kiwi & Phyllis Tickle (who by the way will be at The Great Emergence Conference in Dec.). The quote was featured in Tall Skinny Kiwi’s talk at GodBlogCon and comes from Tickle’s latest book The Great Emergence (need to get me a copy of that!)

…the Church, capital C — in not really a thing so much as it is a network in exactly the same way that the Internet or the World Wide Web, or for that matter gene regularity or metabolic networks are not “things” or “entities.”

I love that! It goes right along with the ideas/thoughts that I have running through my mind right now in preparation for “speaking” at encounter on Oct 12. We’ll see where it all leads me/us.