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Getting Free of Religion
14 May 2011 6:35 AM | No CommentsIn the early 90s for a couple of years I was an unpaid “Executive Pastor” of a denominational church. Anyone who knows me well knows that I am not really...
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Early morning at the Lancaster Denny’s
28 April 2011 2:58 AM | No CommentsI have an important appearance in family law court this morning. Lancaster, CA is about 95 miles from my home in Rancho Belago, CA (the 92555 zip code of Moreno...
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I cried last night…
14 April 2011 4:28 AM | 1 CommentI cried last night. A close and dear friend and mentor of mine was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. The picture of health, my friend was scheduled right away for...
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Breaking the links
Posted on November 14, 2010 | No CommentsI spent a lot of time last week moving Next-Wave from one content management system (CMS) to another. Since January 1999, and almost every month the Next-Wave ezine has “published”... -
Changes at Next-Wave
Posted on November 5, 2010 | No CommentsRegular readers of my site know that I have been publishing Next-Wave, an ezine about church and culture, since January 1999. Over the years, Next-Wave has been edited by Rogier... -
Starting Next-Wave’s Second Decade…
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsWhen I founded Next-Wave I was a burnt out and discouraged failed pastor. I read Willard’s Divine Conspiracy and wondered if I had ever been a follower of Jesus. I... -
Random Musings…
Posted on February 5, 2009 | No CommentsI saw Slumdog Millionaire and Frost/Nixon last week. Slumdog really blew me away. Very disturbing images and scenes. It is an astonishing film, very unpredictable in a sort of predictable... -
Looking forward to the future
Posted on October 13, 2008 | No CommentsI don’t know if the following quote is from Tim Stevens or from Tim Stevens quoting Andy Stanley at the latest Catalyst conference, but it rang a bell for me:... -
End of an era…
Posted on September 22, 2008 | No CommentsNext-Wave has had five editors since it first started publishing in January 1999. In chronological order they are: Rogier Bos, David Hopkins, Jason Evans, Bob Hyatt and Charlie Wear. I... -
Bob Hyatt interviews Doug Pagitt for Next-Wave
Posted on March 20, 2008 | 5 CommentsOn the eve of publication of Doug Pagitt’s new book, A Christianity Worth Believing, Doug and Bob Hyatt sat down at the National Pastors’ Convention for a chat about how... -
Hope for a New Year by Len Hjalmarson
Posted on January 14, 2008 | No CommentsThis is an mp3 of an excellent article by Len Hjalmarson, Hope for a New Year, which appears in this month’s "Big" issue of Next-Wave. This quote encapsulates the essence... -
Fiddling while Rome burns
Posted on December 21, 2007 | 3 CommentsIt is a rumor and probably a myth that Nero "fiddled" while Rome burned as a result of a fire that he set. No matter where the phrase comes from... -
Living at the speed of life…
Posted on October 28, 2007 | No CommentsFrom 1990 to 1995 I went to school, well not really. I had gotten intrigued with the concept of church growth and church planting and attended conferences and seminars aplenty,...