This is an INCREDIBLE experience. If you have Google Chrome as your browser, check out this website and input an address in a major city. It’s a really neat experience. Can you imagine the immersive effect this could have on a church website? (h/t John Saddington “Church Crunch“) To find out more about opening Christian [...]

During my board of ordained ministry final interview, we spent 50 minutes talking theology and ethics and ministry…and 10 minutes talking about this blog and facebook and concerns over clergy not being prudent over what they post online.  I hadn’t done anything wrong, but having made the front page of UMC.org, it was clear that [...]

LOST SPOILERS ALERT Why is Lost so brilliant?  The way it weaves in sneaky cultural references.  Case in point: in the Season 6 premiere, we find out that Locke’s last thought was “I don’t understand.” MAN IN BLACK: Do you wanna know what he was thinking while you, choked the life outta him Benjamin? What the [...]

Populist websites that aggregate reviews are all the rage: amongst others, you can rate your professors, rate movies, rate restaurants, and rate who has the loosest morals in college (thankfully the latter is toast). People have opinions and look for places to make them known. So it was only a matter of time until someone started [...]

A year ago on this blog, we wrote The Tyranny of the SEO Church where we examined how search engine optimization is becoming more and more critical for church outreach, but also cedes power to persons other than the church to answer questions. Read it here.  Here’s the basic premise: What it means to me [...]