Changes

Blogger has added new features and templates, so everyone is doing housekeeping. I don't want to mess with the layout of this site (although I'd love to find out how to deep-six the banner ad at the top), but I've updated some links, anyway.

Mitch's deleting of his blog (see yesterday's post) prompted me to update the Journeymates. For the record, I don't always agree with everything that my Journeymates write, but I've put links to them because in general:

1. They update frequently, which is why some people have been removed from the list.
2. They actually interact with people in the "Comments", which not all bloggers do.
3. They may not agree with everyone's opinions, but they are respectful in their interaction with them, and "conversation", not "condemnation", is the result.

Christy at Dry Bones Dance is a thoughtful writer in Los Angeles, who deals a lot with social justice and issues surrounding racism & women in ministry. Missy at The Red Door is a pastor in the Church of the Nazarene in the American Mid-West. Karl at St. Stephen's Musings is an Eastern Orthodox convert who is asking and debating similar things to this blog, but from an EO point of view. Given our look at "tethering" into the Ancient Creeds, his input and knowledge is really helpful.

Chris wrote a comment yesterday poking fun at the evil weather that we are currently gaining martydom points for here in Winnipeg. This provides a great segue to post a picture of Chris & I leading worship together at Eastgate Vineyard in Winnipeg, back in March (she's the cute blonde, I'm the old fart with the red guitar & ponytail). The deja vu part is that Chris & I last co-led worship at Eastgate Vineyard in Victoria back in 1997. Small, surreal world, eh?