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Michael Buckingham's Posts:
Christian Advertising at the Super Bowl: Subtle & Controversial
The commercials are by far my favorite part of the Super Bowl. The last couple of years have been pretty mediocre in terms of the million dollar ads, but I’m ...
Do You Need a Web Site?
I’m speaking next week to a group of college pastors, and I’m struggling. The first session is about church, communication and creativity … no problems there. The second session is ...
The Internet Is Not Your Delivery Boy
The Internet is more than a delivery method. As I was reading a report on the meeting of the European bishops and reps from Facebook, Google, YouTube and Wikipedia, one of ...
Deadly Viper Character Assassins
Editor’s Note: Due to an on-going controversy over culturally insensitive themes in the book’s design, the publisher of this book, Zondervan, has issued an apology and pulled the book from ...
Cultivate 2009: See you in Chicago!
I’ve said it before: The best part of conferences aren’t the speakers, it’s the relationships and conversations that happen at the conference. A new conference, Cultivate, has embraced that and ...
An Open Letter to Rick Warren about Spec Work
Editor’s Note: We closed the comments on this post as they took a turn for the worse. We explained our reasoning for closing comments and the rationale for this post ...
A Conference of Compassion
If you look at our calendar, you’ll see that there are a lot of conferences out there–one for everyone. There’s one right around the corner that sets itself apart for ...
7 is greater than 1
7 is greater than 1. I know that sounds obvious, but as this video from Soul City Church reminds us, we seem to forget that when it comes to church. ...
2009 HOW Design Conference Wrap-Up Report
I’m a week late posting this, as I really struggled how to put the HOW Design Conference in words. It was really quite incredible to simply be invited to speak ...
Where Do I Begin?
From a recent post in the lab: Hello all… I am new to this board, although I have been frequenting Church Marketing Sucks for quite some time. We have been in ...
What’s the Story?
It’s been a week of exciting news in the world of church communications events. First on the list, the Center for Church Communication is excited to announce a new conference, ...
This Isn’t What I Ordered
I love a menu with lots of pictures, I’m much more apt to order what looks good than what sounds good. I’m a visual guy, that’s just how I’m ...
We Hate Church Too … As Usual
There’s a story that caught my attention, raises some questions and points to a trend in some church circles. A church has launched a campaign that includes billboards that read “We ...
Why Criticism Is A Good Thing
One of the challenges to working with the church is some of the very opinionated feedback you receive from the pastor, committee, etc. When you get criticism what do you ...
A Church Helping The Church
Uprising Church is uprooting itself from its current meeting space at YMCA and moving … to Sunday nights only. Now, honestly I think I’d miss church on Sunday morning and at ...
