Our Friday roundup includes the Christmas story, WestJet's Christmas giving video, lessons in failure, 101 women speakers, hope for the discouraged and more.
There were 110 speakers at this year's The Nines conference, and only four were women. That sparked a debate and can offer lessons for how churches approach diversity.
Church Diversity Week is coming Jan. 13-19, 2012. It's an opportunity to embrace the growing diversity in churches, that will reflect our future in heaven.
A full third of churches are doing nothing to address diversity, but 43% have diversity in photos and materials, 37% have diverse worship and 30% have diversity in leadership.
One of the unstated rules in the church world when creating visual communication pieces--especially when visuals call for pictures of people--is to make sure everything looks diverse.