Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

One of my favorite writer-bloggers is Michael Spencer (a.k.a. The Internet Monk). Like Matt Chandler, Michael is also dealing with serious cancer. His has debilitated him far more than Matt Chandler’s has. Matt is still able to write and preach (and tweet). That is certainly not to minimize Matt’s cancer, but I can’t help but [...]

2009 was a good year of writing for me:
- My blog traffic was up 135% over 2008
- Because of my liveblogging of the Renov8 church planting congress in Calgary, I received an offer to write for a national Christian paper (Christian Week). The first of my six columns for 2010 will appear later this month.
- [...]

All salient points. He understands the medium. Take a look:

NT Wright on Blogging/Social Media from Bill Kinnon on Vimeo.
Wright’s one big worry: isolationism. Sure it is human beings typing and human beings responding, but there is something about human communication that involves bodies and faces, and however good you are as a writer, you can’t [...]

People with no social authority suddenly gain access to previously inaccessible channels of idea distribution
- Anyone saying anything accessible to anyone. No filter, no editor, not time of reflection.
- People who attempt to transmit the authority of printed text to online print are doomed to waste their time chasing heresies. As a result, they [...]

Nielsen, the same people who do TV ratings, recently noted that more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return to the site the following month.
Judging Twitter retention by how many people “visit the site” is like judging Dominoes Pizza by how many people dine-in.
It’s true that [...]

Hello readers,
Thank you all for the participation the last couple of weeks. I’ve enjoyed it greatly.
For the next 6-7 weeks I will be much less active here as I transition from one job to another and continue to work at both!I do enjoy the variety of people who participate in the discussions around here and [...]

Rick McKinley (Imago Dei – Portland) doesn’t blog much, but if this post is any indication he should make an effort more often. A summary of his six points in this post:
1. The subversiveness of love is the primary work of the pastor.
2. There is disaster awaiting the one who gets bogged down with doing [...]

I changed the title from “A Mind Awake” (after a book about C.S. Lewis) to “The Ascent to Truth” (after a book by Thomas Merton).  I like books, in case you haven’t noticed.
I chose the new title for several reasons:
1. It’s the title of one of my favorite Thomas Merton books
2. I hope everyone believes [...]

 
For those of you who don’t care to register at the NYT in order to see the article, you can get a PDF of it by clicking here.
*Update: Driscoll was also recently featured on ABC’s Nightline.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the [...]

 I had just short of 13,000 hits on this blog last year.  About 1000 of those hits came to my blog via search terms. The table below shows the most popular search terms.

 
Apparently I need to do more posts about Thomas Merton and “Famous Drawings”.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording [...]