http://echothestory.com/blog Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:28:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am doing a bunch of writing these days, and one project I am working on is a Student Guide/Journal for the PlanetWisdom Events. It will help students respond and reflect through out their weekend experience. The theme for the event is Unlikely Heroes, inspiring students to take an active ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/08/26/unlikely-heroes/ We are in the process of planning a MERGE Student Event for 2009 in the Midwest. More details will be coming early this fall.  This event will be hosted in partnership between Echo, Imago Media and some other great youth ministry organizations we'll announce soon. Email us if you are interested ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/08/20/merge-2009/ Next week (Aug. 16th) I will be leading a storying workshop for Southbrook Church. This will be my first workshop that is primarily with children's ministry leaders. Since I am not an expert in ministry to children, I invited one – my friend Amy Dolan from LemonLime Kids! I ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/08/05/storying-training-in-milwaukee/ It’d be nice if the Bible read like a novel from cover to cover. But it’s not a novel. It’s a series of books that have been grouped together—and many of them are out of chronological order. In technological terminology, a mashup is a Web application that combines data from more than ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/07/18/the-bible-is-a-wikistory-%e2%80%93-a-mashup-of-stories/ One of the defining words for this digital era is interactive. We’re becoming accustomed to being able to access and create our own media at a moment’s notice. We desire to contribute to our own learning and entertainment like we would any conversation. We now yearn to be a part ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/07/03/become-an-experience-architect/ Last week I had the privilege to lead a workshop with some of the faculty from Long Island Lutheran Middle and High School in Brookville, New York. I lead them through a storying experience and training in the morning, and my brother Mark lead the afternoon. Mark is co-owner ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/06/24/workshop-on-long-island/ It’d be nice if the Bible read like a novel from cover to cover. But it’s not a novel. It’s a series of books that have been grouped together—and many of them are out of chronological order. In technological terminology, a mashup is a Web application that combines data from more ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/06/12/bible-mashup/ “Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one” – N.T. Wright [from Fermi Project Blog] http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/05/16/creating-and-healing/ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BxymuiAxQ] http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/04/30/i-love-this-world/ – Excerpt from the book Searching for God Knows What: “It strikes me, even as I type this, how distant and far our formulaic methodology is from the artful, narrative sort of methodology used to explain God in Scripture. It makes you wonder whether we can even get to the ... http://echothestory.com/blog/2008/04/26/donald-miller-on-learning-to-speak-in-stories/