Dan Bryant, a Disciple pastor in Eugene, Oregon, recently e-mailed a question about the Living Water site. Rather than answer him individually, I am posting the answer here. Dan writes: I am exploring podcasting and found yours. Nicely done! Can you tell me a little about your experience with it, how much effort it takes, [...]
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Brian and I are in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina (in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina) for a meeting of Web Empowered Church developers. Tonight I got to meet Kasper Skarhoj, the original brain behind TYPO3. I wished for a camera so I could show you Brian, Pania (Brian’s wife), me, Mark Stephenson, Kasper, [...]
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Shelley Hildebrand of Perimeter Church recently posted to the Church Management System (ChMS) Google group to ask whether there is interest among churches in building an open source church management system. Then she e-mailed me and asked if I would post a reply. This is a huge question that I have been pondering for most [...]
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I made the following comment to Tony McCollum’s post about Saddleback adding services and changing service times in response to the release of The Passion of the Christ. I figured since I commented there, I should share it here too. I was with a group of mega-church pastors (actually executive pastors) at Saddleback the week [...]
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Stuart Cowen of Casting My Net asked for my list of church IT blogs that I subscribe to and read. Since I created the list for Stuart, I figured, hey, I should share it with the world. It’s the next best thing to an Appian Way blogroll! http://webevangelist.blogspot.com/http://www.betachurch.org/http://www.blogministry.com/http://www.bloggingchurch.com/home/http://brianglass.wordpress.com/http://castingmynet.wordpress.com/http://churchtechmatters.com/http://www.churchnerd.com/blog/http://www.davidblog.com/http://www.e-vangelism.com/http://www.eministrynotes.com/http://godbit.com/http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/http://jpowell.blogs.com/http://www.leaveitbehind.com/http://rodpearcy.typepad.com/http://www.strategicdigitaloutreach.com/http://techshepherd.typepad.com/http://tonydye.typepad.com/http://guide.gospelcom.net/resources/bulletin.phphttp://webempoweredchurch.org/home/ … and (of course) http://appianway.blogspot.com/
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I encourage you to read this post by Shane Hipps in which he argues that electronic media isn’t message-neutral. He contrasts how the text medium favors communication through systematic, linear reason, whereas the image medium favors communication through stories and experience. Personally, I favor the use of multi-art, multimedia presentation. This approach uses emotion and [...]
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