Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality By Michael Spencer 229 pp. Cascade Books. $13.99 Two influences obviously shaped my experience of reading this book: for one, as I wrote in my post “On the Death of Facebook Friends” in April, I read this book as the posthumous work of an Internet personality…
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On the Death of Facebook Friends: Some Reflections on Michael Spencer and Michael Johnson
I’m sure this is going to be more and more common a phenomenon as the years pass: I’ve now got two Facebook friends who are dead. Certainly I can’t be the first to whom this has happened. In fact, Spark, one of the CBC podcasts I listen to, devoted an entire episode some months back…
Michael Spencer, 1956-2010
On the first episode of the podcast, I made a joke about Nathan Gilmour sounding like the Internet Monk, Michael Spencer. That joke turned out to be in bad taste–just a few weeks after it aired, Spencer’s podcast was shut down due to its host’s getting very ill with cancer. The disease came on quickly,…