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Archive for the ‘Social Justice’ Category
Interview with Shaun King
Today we’re talking with Shaun King, a vocal pastor and activist who has used Twitter and Facebook to rally causes and get results. He’s the pastor of Courageous Church in ...
Canceling Church To Do Good
Seventy-seven churches in the Atlanta area are canceling Sunday services in order to do community service. It's an opportunity for the church to get outside and do good.
How Does Your Church Respond to Disaster?
In the face of tragedy the church is rising up. It’s amazing to see so many examples of the church being, well, the church. I’d link to them, but let’s ...
Deadly Viper & Racism in Marketing
Nothing says controversy like an Internet fight over racism in marketing and design. If you weren’t familiar with last week’s blow-by-blow, Asian author and professor Soong-Chan Rah called out racism ...
Nov. 8th: Orphan Sunday
In October, we didn’t really get any church holidays. In all fairness, it’s a busy season. With fall festivals, trunk or treats, harvest fairs and tribulation trails, there’s very little ...
Adoption Over Abortion: We’ll Take Any Baby
One Atlanta church has a bold challenge to anyone considering abortion: “Peachtree Presbyterian Church will care for any newborn baby you bring to this church.” So says Pastor Vic Pentz in ...
A Church You Can Call Home
This idea has been tossed around from time-to-time, just here on Church Marketing Sucks, so I’m sure it’s made the rounds outside of our little world. But churches doing good ...
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 ...
Be Generous, Creatively
For many, a down economy is a frightful time. Luckily, as we’ve noted before, God is not taking part in the recession. This is a prime opportunity for churches to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sustainable Farming Lessons From Churches
Your church doesn’t have to lead the entire country of Cambodia to Christ. I’d like to go ahead and extend you that permission. Perhaps your church doesn’t have the money ...
Reflecting on Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the great lessons of the radical we celebrate today, Martin Luther King Jr., is that change requires action: “One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom ...
For the Love of God Rethink Christmas
We recently talked about God’s bailout plan, and I brought up the point that some churches are doing some pretty dumb things, especially in relation to Christmas. The one that ...
Methodists Go Fair Trade
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard a good example of churches clamoring towards social justice in their marketing efforts, but it looks like the United Methodists are headed that direction. With ...
