As I write, Pittsburgh 2011 is still pretty fresh in my memory. But by the time you read this, two months will have elapsed since the biennial gathering of Mennonite Church USA members. One of the things I took away from Pittsburgh is that we are still grappling with the term missional …
From today’s news: book sales in the United States are down 9 percent; Borders Books, one of the two main megastore chains in the nation, began its liquidation as part of bankruptcy; Amazon reported that sales of e-books exceeded paper copies in the previous 12 months; Apple exceeded all expectation by selling more than 9 million tablets; smart phones will soon outsell PCs; and Netflix ignited controversy by upping the price of its combination net-streaming and mail-order DVD service …
