Why Frank Viola Left the Institutional Church
5 August, 2008 
I’m a big fan of Frank’s books. I think he has a tremendous amount of wisdom to offer. I’ve often wondered how he got started on his simple church/home church journey.
I need wonder no more: WHY I LEFT THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH
To put all four reasons into a sentence: I had been captured by a higher vision. I envisioned the church to be something far beyond what I had experienced in my thirteen years of traditional Christianity. And that vision sent me on a 20-year odyssey.
Where have you gone, Joe?
1 August, 2008 
Been quiet here lately. It’s just been that kind of summer. Yesterday saw Kerri and I say farewell to Marriage Actually, the last b5media blog on which either of us were writing. It’s been a fun time. Hard to believe it’s been nearly 2-1/2 years since I first sold them on the idea of a blog about Baldness.
Let’s see… as a sensitive, post-modern kind of guy, it seems I should be appropriately retrospective in this moment. So, what did I learn?
- Getting paid to write is fun.
- There is a difference between being into something and being able to write regularly about it.
- Virtual business relationships are here to stay, but there is still something missing from face-to-face and even voice interaction.
- I met a number of cool and interesting folks.
There. That seems appropriate.
I wish b5media and its bloggers all the success in the world. Perhaps the future will bring me back their way again sometime.
Meanwhile, I wonder how else I can get paid to write…
