The Digital Sanctuary

I want to apologize to readers for the backup (70 drafts now) of un-posted information here at The Digital Sanctuary.  I’m going to pay special attention to that backlog over the next month and begin to post information that might be slightly outdated by a few months but could still help educate you regarding the [...]

Over the past year I’ve been sent literally dozens and dozens of great books to read & review.  Unfortunately for me, I’ve run out of time to get to all of them – and my office is overflowing.   Furthermore, my reading is diluting this blog’s emphasis – the use of media technologies within the church.
So, [...]

The Idea Camp – Eric Bryant Interview from The Idea Camp on Vimeo.
Usually I blog news about innovative ministry practices that are dependent on technology.  But recently, at The Idea Camp, I had the chance to interview so many Christian leaders (over a dozen) that I’ve been posting the interviews here.   Thanks for your [...]

Top 10 Church Website Features/Activities

Recently I invited readers to participate in a church website survey to determine how church websites are really being used.  The survey, The State of the Church Online, Part 1, is beginning to produce new, concrete data about church website use.
What do people say are the most important features/activities they would [...]

This last weekend London hosted an event billed as CyberChurch and Online Community Symposium.  Hosted by Andrew Jones, aka the Tall Skinny Kiwi, aka Chancellor of the virtual Suddenly Seminary, “an intimate and somewhat casual meeting for some really interesting and qualified people, divided up somewhat equally among thinkers, practitioners and supporters”.  Check out his [...]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project studies the social impact of the internet.   It’s a non-partisan, non-profit “fact tank” that produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.   Their mission is to make it easy for people to [...]

This video clip introduces you to the vision and ministry of one of Seattle’s innovative leaders, Pastor Eugene Cho.  It will be obvious to you after you hear Eugene speak, that he is a man who has decided to make a difference.   And, there’s basically no problem too big for him to tackle.  [...]

Recently, at The Idea Camp in Southern California, I had the opportunity to interview a broad sweep of faith-based leaders including media producers, pastors, cultural architects, technologists, visionaries, CEO’s and other cross disciplinary innovators. It was a hugely collaborative & inspirational event so I’ll be archiving some of the videos here. [...]

This is a good video clip summarizing The Idea Camp and what it was designed to achieve.
The entire event (free, of course)is  still openly challenging all of us who are used to paying for conferences to see speakers we can listen to rather than those we can collaborate with.
And yet, Generation “We” seems to clearly [...]

Charles Lee interviewing Dave Gibbons (on his birthday last Saturday) at The Idea Camp

Eugene Cho, Scott Hodge & Dave Gibbons at The Idea Camp

As I mentioned yesterday, today kicks off The Monkey & The Fish Blog Tour.  I also mentioned that Dave Gibbons, the author, is a global thinker and has offered some new insights [...]