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Awards Poll
Last week we ran a story about an Amarillo, Texas church that won a best in show Addy Award. Not too shabby. So we wondered how many other churches were ...
Presentation Matters
Relevant has an interesting online article on The Commercial Church. It argues for pretty much the opposite of what we say here, but I always find these articles interesting and ...
Battling Frumpiness in the Pulpit
She could have called the site Church Fashion Sucks. But Beauty Tips for Ministers works, too. Victoria Weinstein, a Unitarian Universalist minister who goes by the handle PeaceBang, launched the ...
Stand-Up Comic Helps UK Clergy
Comedian Andy Kind is offering help to British clergy with a workshop that focuses on performance skills in an effort to help them better communicate with their congregations. “Christianity is not ...
Megachurches are Desegregating Sunday Mornings
You can deride megachurches all you want, but new research shows that they’re more racially diverse, finally beginning to overturn the assertion that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour ...
They Didn’t Teach Marketing In Seminary
Rev. Matthew Moretz laments that they didn’t teach him marketing in seminary, despite the fact that he does more print jobs than sermons. But considering the success of his Father ...
Unnecessary Church Ministries Poll
Last week our poll asked about unnecessary church ministries, an admittedly tongue-in-cheek follow up to a pro and con discussion about cutting back on what churches do. The giant Jesus/cross ...
Amarillo Church Wins Addy Award
An Amarillo, Texas church snagged a best in show (registration requried) at the Addy Awards for the second year in a row. Trinity Fellowship Church won the local division of ...
Church Critics Poll
Last week we asked how your church deals with criticism. An amazing 45% said their church tackles criticism head on with honesty and openness. 27% said criticism was met with ...
Churches Should Do What Works
LifeChurch.tv’s Craig Groeschel talks about cutting back church ministries. What?! No VBS? No choir? No women’s ministry? (gasp) I love his simple and calm reasoning that churches should do what works ...
Testimony Billboards
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports on a church billboard campaign that’s personal. Love this quote: “Marketing and evangelism are the same thing,” says Mara Einstein, associate professor of media studies at the ...
Stopping the Comment Spam
We’ve instituted a new measure to fight comment spam. When you post a comment you’ll be asked to type a word to verify that you’re a real person commenting and ...
Church Marketing Lessons from PETA
So today I stumbled across this little pornographic video from PETA and blogged about it on my personal site. Don’t worry, I’m linking to my blog post and not the ...
NFL vs. God Poll Results
Last week we asked what churches can learn from the church Super Bowl controversy. We received a nice range of responses, with making sure your bases are covered receiving the ...
Don’t Cause Unnecessary Offense
Yesterday I tried to talk about some ways to avoid and address criticism and in the end I was debating with myself about whether or not we should care about ...
