Faith.Tech.Culture
For the first time, Hacking Christianity has broken into Church Relevance’s Top 200 Ministry Blogs. Huzzah! Church Relevance updates this list of “ministry blogs” periodically. Here’s the description of what a “ministry blog” is and isn’t: A ministry blog nurtures or challenges the way ministers think about the gospel, the Great commission, ministry methodology, and […]
Because I have a blog and a cute baby… === We had a photography session gifted to us by some friends with Katheryn Moran Photography, located in the Pacific Northwest. Katy is a terrific and child-adoring photographer. Website: http://www.katherynmoranphotography.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KatherynMoranPhotography
Five years ago, we began the experiment that was ‘Hacking Christianity’ which melded an approach to computer systems with the pursuit of expressions of the Christian faith. By the Numbers After five years of blogging, here’s the statistics of where we are: We have 854 blog posts (~170 posts a year or one every two days) […]
The Mayans were right… So Hacking Christianity has been down for 10 days. Suspiciously just as I was meeting Bishops and District Superintendents who told me they read my blog, the blog RSS feed went down, and then in trying to rectify it from away from my home computer, I managed to delete the entire […]
This is Anjali Claire, born Sunday October 7th. 7 pounds 12 ounces and 19.5 inches long. She is our first child and all of us are doing terrific. Her first name means “divine offering” in Sanskrit. I’m United Methodist clergy, and my spouse is a Baron Baptiste yoga instructor, so we felt that her name was […]
(Note: lots of “I’s” and self-reflective narcissism ahead. But it’s a blog so you knew that already…) It was difficult but I tried to keep from opining away about General Conference and its aftermath. I tweeted and Facebooked a lot but no blog posts. There was a TON to talk about and respond to but…I’m a slow […]
New Appointment in the #UMCHello HackingChristianity community, Sorry to be so quiet these past two weeks, and for getting off-schedule of our Lenten Book Study. Thanks for your messages and wonderings of “where are you?” during this time. But I have a good reason…As you know, I am currently serving a church in my home […]
Wahoo! (Big Announcement Part 2 coming tomorrow)
Two speeches about church and social mediaForgive me blogosphere, I have sinned. It’s been 3 weeks since my last post. Real life gets in the way of blogging, just as blogging gets in the way of real life. It’s a balancing act and honestly I needed time to refocus after all the Beth Moore attention […]
Shameless PlugOne of our blog posts at Hacking Christianity has made it into journalistic semi-big-time: published in a respectable religion magazine. Our blog post on TOMs shoes and evaluating charitable giving “Glam/Missional” has been adapted and made into an article in the Spring/Summer 2011 edition of The Progressive Christian (link). The Progressive Christian is formerly […]
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