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And I got many interesting responses including this insightful comment from my friend and mentor Colin:

This is the difference between honour and reputation. A traitor knight has a fine reputation but he has no honour. He cultivates his reputation, which governs all of his actions, which are driven by pride and selfishness. He is secretly wicked, and also godless, since when he performs his wicked acts in secret he believes that no one witnesses them or knows of them. His “chivalry” is a pretense because it is based upon pride and selfishness. A true knight on the other hand has honour, which governs his actions at all times, even when he is alone. For him he walks always in the eyes of God, in service to his King. A true knight cares not for reputation since his honour is paramount. He pursues honour selflessly with humility, courtesy and generosity in his conduct towards others. Stand them side by side, this traitor knight and this true knight, and they look alike. The difference is in the heart. Only the true knight knows he is true. Only the traitor knight knows he is false. The outside world cannot tell the difference. Therefore, to walk the path of the true knight, cultivate honour, not reputation.

It seems to me that Colin has nailed the issue and defined the poser in chivalric terms. So the question becomes why am I doing this? Because it is right or because I want a good reputation?

This has been a time of facing up to the latest challenge, stepping out into my calling, my purpose, my dream to create a place where truth, grace and justice are the key values. A chivalric community, a community of grace. A place where a questing people can delve deeper into the pursuit of truth, grace and justice.

However, I do feel that the time has come to start the conversation again. Therefore, watch this space.

Please pray that the impossible becomes possible for Angelina and that she will be allowed to go to the school that is around the corner from the corps.

My rating: 1 of 5 stars
This Study Bible while filled with a lot of amazing facts is a very biased book, it promotes a very specific strain of theology and therefore, in my opinion is a poor study bible for the serious bible student or scholar.

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I have had my eyes on bumptop for quite a while. And now the mac alpha version has come out and I have been asked to “beta” test. It is a new way of doing “desktop” it treats your desktop as an actual desktop where you can organize files and folders in piles, you can scoot things around on the surface and they slide over your desktop…. What I wouldn’t give for a touch screen right now ……

However, it is proving harder than I thought to choose who to invite. Therefore I will extend invites to people who can be beneficial to me, Hanna and the Malmö corps. We are in the starting phase of replanting the corps. We are a NEO (New Expression Of the Salvation Army) and rapidly becoming part of the hyphenated church ie. Salvo-emergent.

If you are a person who wants to have theological discussions, and you think you can come with insight and ideas regarding emergence, Salvation Army and or planting let me know by a comment below, and sign up to follow either my twitter or tumbler feed and I will consider you for one of my six remaining invites. In the end I will also randomly select one person to receive an invite so even if you do not fit the description below.

The only other condition to this is that if you get an invite from me, please consider giving one of your invites to someone who commented below and did not get one.

Google Wave

So I finally got a google wave invite. Wave looks very promising but it is extremely booring. Having a wave account and no invites to give out proves to be challenging. Being alone on a service that is designed for collaborative work is well not very productive. I can’t wait until google wave is as well used as gmail.

Accordance - Svenska folk bibeln

Last night I was asked to try out the a new accordance module with ‘Svenska Folk Bibeln’ (Swedish Folk Bible). The Bible translation that I have been using the most and desperately need for my sermon and bible study prep.

Honoured and very tickled to be asked personally by the accordance staff I naturally accepted.

Voddler

My ISP – Bredbandsbolaget are offering all their customers free beta accounts at Voddler, an internet movie service much like spotify but with movies instead. I am amazed at how right away after creating my account I was streaming a HD movie without a single hiccup.

Voddler have received a lot of criticism, but I wonder if it is not just a great service in it’s infancy. well we shall see. It is going to be fun trying it out though.

When asked to come to the get together in Boston I politely declined as there was no way I could afford going (still being on minus from Rent-a-Don) but promptly received this email:

Dear Patrik-

The Schola Saint George Metro Boston study group, assisted by members of SSG San Francisco Bay Area and SSG Central New Jersey, requests your acceptance of our invitation to the 2009 East Coast Get Together. Would the following flight times work for you?

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We would also like to offer you the hospitality of our house and table during your time here, and of course we will arrange transportation to and from the airport.

Please let me know and your tickets will be forthcoming.

I.e., you’re *going* to the ball, Cinderella! ;^)

And how could I refuse such a generous gesture. So here I am in the middle of this madness trying to prepare for my next testing, frantically trying to make sense of Fiore’s Zogo Stretto plays and fixing my kit so that it is in top shape for another mad weekend. On Friday I fly to Boston only to return on Monday morning for a full day of mission.

I figure that such a great display of generosity cannot go unnoticed. So let it be known that within the Schola Saint George Chivalry is alive and well. Charles Deily and Colin Hatcher (the most likely suspects for such a mighty deed of generosity) will be renowned for their great generosity.

VIVAT!