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Brad Abare's Posts:
Catholics Come Home: The Role of Denominations
It looks like the Catholic church is ramping up their “Catholics Come Home” campaign. The LA Times reported that the diocese of Sacramento is “preparing to air several thousand prime-time ...
Follow-Up to the Rick Warren/Spec Work Debate
On Thursday evening we posted an entry trying to address the issue of spec work through the current example of Rick Warren’s book cover design contest. In less than 24 ...
Abercrombie & Church
The September 14 print edition of Fortune magazine had an article (no link) by Beth Kowitt on how mall owners have been thinking “outside of the (big) box” when it ...
Another Word for ‘Church’?
My wife and I traveled to Hawaii a few weeks ago for a co-worker’s wedding. We stayed over an extra day and attended a church service in downtown Honolulu with ...
Your Slogan/Name Is Not A Strategy
It appears Radio Shack is attempting to rebrand itself as “The Shack.” They say it’s what their friends call them. Have you ever met a friend of Radio Shack? I ...
Story: Oct. 28-29 Near Chicago
Last week I received a very nice package from Ben Arment, the lead brain behind Story. It looks like Carlos Whittaker received a similar package–watch Los open it, he looks ...
How Does Your Church Play Nice?
I saw this over the weekend from a church in Eagle Rock, Calif., about eight miles outside of downtown Los Angeles. Christian Assembly has been in Eagle Rock for decades ...
Echo, God As Second Banana
“Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.” —Neil Postman The second annual Echo Church Media Conference ...
Come and Care
I spent 90 minutes last week with a pastor from the northeast who was visiting Los Angeles for a few days. He moved to the United States from Ghana 20 ...
Build Awareness or Meet the Need
I got a call last week from a husband and wife team who are launching a new business going after people who own RVs/trailers. With boomer mobility on the rise, ...
Pick One
You can’t be the urban church and the rural church.You can’t be the men-friendly church and the women-friendly church.You can’t be the advocate and the antagonist.You can’t be the funny ...
Heath Brothers on Going Viral
Their monthly column in Fast Company is always a great read, and this month is no exception when the Made to Stick brothers Dan Heath and Chip Heath give us ...
The Soloist
Thanks to the kindness of a well connected friend, I attended an advance screening of The Soloist, releasing in theaters across the country today. The movie stars Jamie Foxx and ...
Worthy is the…Labrador?
Here’s another one for the “And We Wonder Why We’re Hated” conversation… Matthew Paul Turner, the recovering churched boy, wrote a post earlier this week about an imaginary conversation between mother ...
The Last TV Evangelist
A year ago I reviewed Branding Faith: Why Some Churches and Nonprofits Impact Culture and Others Don’t, by Phil Cooke. It’s a great book, especially for church leadership that is ...
