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The Christian Web Conference: Incarnating Digital Relationships

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Last weekend’s Christian Web Conference put flesh on the disembodied personas of several well-known online Christians.  While internet technologies continue to help people form increasingly complex relationships online, nothing has yet replaced the richly unique dynamic of face-to-face meetings - that’s why conferences like CWC are so useful.
This year’s conference, an expanded version of GodBlogCon, [...]

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BPA: One less thing to worry about

Monday, July 20, 2009

Fear sells.  No one knows this better than advertisers, whose aggressive marketing content is unconsciously absorbed by millions of consumers who don’t - or can’t - think critically about what advertisers tell them.
That’s why it’s such a shame when advertisers and marketing firms invent false crises in order to exploit these unprepared consumers.  BPA-free baby [...]

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Twitter: Coming to a church near you?

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Is the Holy Spirit at work on twitter?  According to a recent Time magazine article, it might be.
Time recently highlighted a congregation in Michigan that has hosted about a dozen “Twitter Sundays”, complete with increased bandwith in the church sanctuary and training sessions for those new to the medium.  John Voelz, a pastor at Westwinds [...]

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