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Facebook for Pastors
Chris Forbes just released a free 32-page e-book, Facebook for Pastors. The booklet can help you make the most of Facebook for your church (beyond just playing Scrabble). Check it ...
The Church & Earth Day
Today’s Earth Day and Jason Boyett reminds us that the church can still care about creation. He points to Tri Robinson, a pastor who wrote the book Saving God’s Green ...
Responding to Attacks
You’ve probably seen a raving, ranting black preacher talking about racism and “God damn America” with a fiery anger on just about every TV channel. The news media found some ...
Churches as a Media Platform
Veggie Tales founder Phil Vischer has been blogging about his big dreams for his new company, Jellyfish (if you’re not familiar with Vischer’s departure from Big Idea, you should read ...
HOW Church Marketing Sucks
How does church marketing suck? Well, we count the ways on this blog nearly every day. But one way church marketing can suck a little less is by learning from ...
Forget Marketing, Christian Living Sucks
A recent report from Christian pollsters the Barna Group, summed up in the book UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity … and Why It Matters by David ...
Church Marketing Goes Local
If you’re signed up for our monthly e-mail newsletter then you probably already heard the news: We’ve gone local. The Center for Church Communication (our nonprofit parent) has just launched ...
Lessons from 15 Compassion International Bloggers
Last week the child sponsorship organization Compassion International took 15 Christian bloggers to Uganda to see what child sponsorship looks like firsthand. Among those bloggers are musician Shaun Groves, BooMama ...
How to Write Scannable Copy for the Web
I feel like I talk about how to write for the web all the time (and even wrote a long how-to back in August), but we could always use a ...
21 Factors to Consider Before a Redesign
If your church is thinking about a redesign (and who isn’t?), you might want to check out 21 factors to consider before a redesign. It’s exactly what it sounds like ...
The NFL vs. Church
I guess tomorrow there’s some big game–the Super Bowl or something. They’re talking about it in the Church Marketing Lab and churches across the country are having parties–though perhaps warily. Last ...
Twitter for Churches
The mini-blog application Twitter seems to be the new shiny tech toy of late (which means it’s already old news). So what is Twitter? Basically you send out 140-character to ...
Jesus Billboard is an Eyesore
This is fun: A Minnesota newspaper does a story about the city cracking down on “eyesores” and the accompanying front-page photo features a billboard for a local church with “Jesus” ...
Overnight Web Site Challenge
A Minnesota tech company is hosting the F1 Overnight Web Site Challenge, where teams of geeks will create fully functional web sites for Minnesota nonprofits in only 24 hours. Public ...
Christmas is Broken
Now that the Christmas season is over (unless you celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, in which case keep on rockin’!) I think it’s fair to say that Christmas is ...
