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Comment Filtering Issues
To the 64 people with co.uk addresses who have tried to post comments since January 7 and been turned away, we apologize. You should be able to comment now. Spam filtering ...
Getting Wrapped Up in a Story
Whew. This whole Satan tagline and hackers story is pretty crazy. Turns out the tagline was a legitimate mistake. The hackers thing–not true. We’ve received comments from the church’s webmaster ...
Satan Tagline Church Not The Victim of Hackers
And this is why it’s a good idea to be a little skeptical and not jump on every bandwagon that rolls by. The Limerick, Penn. church that appeared to have ...
A Successful Church Name Change
ChristianityToday.com has the story of how a pastor at Manhasset Baptist Church successfully changed the church’s name to Shelter Rock Church. It’s a good example of the right reasons to ...
Blind User Sues Target Over Web Accessibility
Bruce Sexton Jr. is a 24-year-old student at UC Berkeley. He’s also blind. And now he’s suing Target because their web site is completely inaccessible for blind users. “What I ...
Church Giveaways Poll
Last week we had a fun poll about church giveaways, asking how to up the ante beyond houses, Harleys and Hummers to some really cool giveaways. And it’s a tie: 15-minute ...
Letting Satan Speak For Your Church
I find this hard to believe. I keep thinking I’m missing the joke, like an Onion article you mistake for real news. St. James United Church of Christ in Limerick, ...
10 Things You Should Know About People
Kem Meyer, a sometimes guest blogger here and communications director at Granger Community Church in South Bend, Ind., recently shared a list of lessons she’d learned about how to better ...
Revamping Seniors Ministry
Changes in ministries to seniors are coming fast, especially as senior citizens aren’t thinking of themselves as seniors. Last week we heard about teaching seniors how to play Xbox, but ...
Lessons in Shortsightedness: Cutting the Marketing Budget
Last week my church had the infamous church business meeting (which I credit with pushing my wife into labor). Before we got to the real issues, we took care of ...
Miscommunication in Text
As we’ve recently seen, it’s easy for written text to be misunderstood, especially in blogs and e-mail. A new study from the University of Chicago confirms that fact. When reading ...
What’s Working in Churches
Jordon Cooper has an intersting blog entry about wanting to rediscover stories. He’s tired of talking about what’s wrong with the church and wants to hear more stories of what’s ...
Support CMS Through Amazon
Being a non-profit implies a certain lack of cash. Church Marketing Sucks has never been and never will be about getting rich, but we do still have bills to pay. ...
Blogging Can Burn Pastors
We like blogging. That’s fairly obvious, coming from a blog, but we definitely encourage churches and pastors to blog (and we’re just waiting for that book). But you have to ...
Community Swimming Pool Built By a Church
Harvest Church in Billings, Mont. is planning to build a community swimming pool. And you thought cup holders were cool. The community has tried to pass three bond measures in ...
Cup Holders in Church
It seems like everybody likes to rag on mega-churches, but I don’t always get it. Often they’re just making smart decisions. Take Eagle Brook, the largest church in Minnesota with ...
Mega-Churches Double
Speaking of mega-churches, they’ve doubled in the last five years. There are now 1,210 churches with weekly attendance over 2,000. More info than you wanted to know about mega-churches is ...