How Your Church or Campus Ministry Can Use Periscope
Periscope is Twitter’s new app that allows live streaming of video. This offers some unique opportunities for churches and campus ministries to make connections and tell their story! Included is a discussion of potential drawbacks as well as a comparison to Meerkat.
Responsive Reading for Good Friday or the End of Lent
A responsive reading for use on Good Friday or near the end of Lent. It juxtaposes the various things the people around Jesus thought they were accomplishing through Jesus’ death with what Jesus accomplished through or in spite of their actions.
Pray As You Go Podcast
Check out the “Pray As You Go” podcast for a 10-13 minute daily guided prayer time with music, Scripture, and questions for reflection.
How Your Church or Campus Ministry Can Use Meerkat
Meerkat is a new app that allows live streaming of video in conjunction with Twitter. This offers some unique opportunities for churches and campus ministries to make connections and tell their story! Included is a discussion of potential drawbacks as well.
The Importance of Backmatter
Self-published author Courtney Milan writes, “the moment after someone finishes your book is the point when they are most favorably inclined to you as an author.” So, that is exactly where she puts a call to action. Can we identify these moments in other areas too?
Millennials and Their Paradoxical Desires for Worship
Barna has released data on how Millennials related to worship spaces, and a surface-level reading of the data is paradoxical at best. Is there anything we can take away from it?
The Pendulum of Controversial Debates
When controversial debates break out, it is our tendency to run to one corner or another and huddle with people who think and believe like us. This can lead over time to a denial in the humanity of the “other side.” The challenge we are called to is to preserve our ability to see the image of God in one another.
99% Invisible: Thomassons
What qualifications do you really need to fulfill a calling? What happens if an opportunity presents itself out of the blue? Explores these questions through the story of the “designated survivor” who would become President if the worst happens during the State of the Union speech.
Sufjan Stevens and Malleable Christianity
In an interview with Pitchfork, singer-songwriter SufJan Stevens describes his faith. While some might sees its expression as a rejection of traditional Christianity, this may not be completely accurate.
This American Life: Commander in Brief
What qualifications do you really need to fulfill a calling? What happens if an opportunity presents itself out of the blue? Explores these questions through the story of the “designated survivor” who would become President if the worst happens during the State of the Union speech.