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I am a Christian
The various “I am/We are [fill in your denomination]” ad campaigns that we mentioned last week (Southern Baptist, Foursquare, Episcopal) got me thinking: Who cares? I understand denominations needing to differentiate ...
You Can’t Advertise Problems Away: Ad Campaigns of the Mainline Denominations
U.S. News & World Report covers the shrinking mainline denominations and their desperate attempts to re-brand. It’s pretty much the same story we’ve heard for a while now, but a ...
How Technology Can Help Your Church
I’m a fan of cool technology. I like Twitter. I watch Lost on my laptop. I don’t have a landline. Seeing the church take advantage of new technologies to spread ...
Ed Young: The Cussing Pastor
Fellowship Church’s Ed Young sparked a conversation about pastors using profanity in this video. Before you get completely shocked, his definition of profanity is pretty broad, including words like “crap,” ...
The Church Needs to Get Angry
Eugene Cho asks if Christians just aren’t angry enough about grave injustices like human trafficking. He does so with some language your grandmother wouldn’t approve of (though he does use ...
Taking Church Beyond Sunday
So that Compassion blogging indie rocker Shaun Groves has a sarcastic little blog post about how church leaders in the developing world don’t get it. They’re doing goofy things like ...
Twittering the Sermon
The micro-blogging service Twitter has been soaring in popularity lately, and now the intersections between church and Twitter will get even more attention with this Time magazine article, Twittering in ...
Churches Moving from Success to Significance
We’ve talked about Jim Collins’ Good to Great before, but a Leadership Journal article (admittedly from 2003, but relevant for today) explores churches that are moving from great to good. The ...
Church Saves $268,000 By Going Green
The First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., which has about 6,000 in attendance on Sunday mornings, implemented an energy savings plan in the last year and managed to save $268,000. ...
Marketing the Church or Your Church?
Marketing guru Seth Godin has an interesting post (as usual) about whether you should be marketing for your category in general or for your specific product over the competition: Confusion sets ...
Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps
How’s this for fitting? I read Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps on a plane to Ethiopia when I’d be all but disconnected from the technology ...
Twittering the Passion of Christ
With all the headlines Twitter has received lately, it’s cool to see a church get some ink for an innovative approach to Twitter. Wall Street’s Trinity Church will be posting ...
Creative Solutions: Sharing Buildings
In this economy we’re in need of creative solutions. And I love it when the church is a part of those creative solutions. Intermedia Arts is a local nonprofit in ...
The Message of Giving
Christian History has an interesting little article exploring the recent history of the offering in church services. The article covers government-supported churches (that’s right, here in the U.S. of A. ...
Mark Batterson: Church is a Tag-Team Sport
I love wild-goose-chaser and National Community Church pastor Mark Batterson’s blog entry this morning: Church is a Tag-Team Sport. It’s a good reminder of the powerful word of mouth, person ...
