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Brad Abare's Posts:
And We Wonder Why We’re Hated
Havens Corners Church in Blacklick, Ohio (just outside of Columbus) is getting a little flack for their sign out front. Borrowing from Katy Perry’s hit song “I Kissed A Girl,” ...
Advice for Soul Searching
In the midst of all my “soul searching” rants of recent weeks, most notably the Bastards With Bibles series, I’m getting a decent amount of inquiries asking “How do we ...
MinistryCOM 2008 in Oklahoma City
For the past several months I’ve been looking forward to being at MinistryCOM in Oklahoma City on September 18-19. With less than three weeks to go, the anticipation continues to ...
More Identity Struggles
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the Echo conference in Dallas, Texas, with a few hundred church media artists. I presented a spoken version of my “Bastards ...
Shawn Wood’s Pomegranates
In case you’ve been hibernating the past year, or are new to this conversation about church communication, Shawn Wood‘s first book is out today, 200 Pomegranates and an Audience of ...
Bridge to Bikers, the Homeless and Prison Alumni
I was in Fort Wayne, Ind., this past weekend for a site survey and setup trip for an upcoming Foursquare simulcast later this fall. It’s always a treat for me ...
Bastards with Bibles, Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about how our impending identity crisis is funking our souls. You can read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 ...
Bastards with Bibles, Part 3
This is part three in a series about how our impending identity crisis is funking our souls. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 to catch up. Organization as Soul ...
Bastards with Bibles, Part 2
This is part two in a series about how our impending identity crisis is funking our souls. Part one was the story of CGE/Vivendi and their struggle to figure out ...
Bastards with Bibles, Part 1
This is part one in a series about how our impending identity crisis is funking our souls. I’m really fired up about this subject of identity and soul and I’m ...
Skills and Bills: Working with Churches & Contractors
A recent comment about churches paying their bills prompted my post today, although this has been a pet peeve of mine for as long as I can remember. Having worked ...
Note to Boss: Stop Asking For Comps
Last week I wrote a note to designers and creatives about how they should stop providing multiple design comps. Today I direct the same message to the other side–the people ...
Note to Creatives: Stop Providing Comps
Graphic Designers: If you haven’t kicked the habit already, stop giving two to three design comps (or more) when you present key art ideas to your client or boss. Not ...
The Medium is Not the Message
This week’s Monday Morning Memo (you can also listen to it) from Roy H. Williams takes issue with Marshall McLuhan’s famous line, “The medium is the message.” I, too, have ...
Innovation of Ideas
I don’t know about you, but oftentimes when I think of innovation, my mind immediately jumps to products or services. Things like the telephone, the assembly line, solar panels, airplanes ...
