The Digital Sanctuary

Several months back, Relevant Magazine’s Neue Quarterly released the article Multi-Conversation, a three-part conversation on plurality in the Kingdom.  The piece is designed to be an exploration of new trends in church development.  Exploring multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-site movements, perfectly normal church planter Earl Creps, absolute wild-man pastor Shaun King and myself all review and [...]

Friday is the day I often point to scholars who specialize in the study of media & the church.  This series of Friday posts entitled, Blog of the Weekend, is designed to cover a broad spectrum of world class teachers, researchers & scholars who assess the impact and influence of technology/media on Christianity.
This week is [...]

Facebook for Pastors by Chris Forbes is available now online. Thanks to all of you who spread the word and participated by submitting testimonials.
Facebook for Pastors was written to help Pastors and other ministry leaders make the most of the popular social bookmarking tool, Facebook.  It includes endorsements from Kent Shaffer, Greg Atkinson, Mark [...]

Last call for Facebook for Pastors ebook quotes. (email or fb me)

Thanks to the digerati leadership at LifeChurch.tv for making The Digital Sanctuary their featured blog this week at Swerve.

Larry Norman – still innovating….  using the internet to say goodbye to all who love you.

Don't forget to register for the Fellowship Technologies 2008 Conference.  My [...]

   The Wikiklesia Project, 
    Voices of the Virtual World:
    Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution,
   Wins Award  of Merit!
 

All of us Wikiklesia Project authors are celebrating the 'Award of Merit' given to us in Boston last week from the Society for New Communications Research.  The SNCR, as it's called, is a global think tank [...]

Excitement is mounting for Imagine – Foursquare NextGen Summit '07.

The goal of the Summit is to spiritually awaken students so they are empowered to change their world today, both spiritually and physically.
More details here at the Foursquare events homepage.   In the meantime, think about this:

Speakers Include:

Matthew Barnett

Glenn Burris Jr. [...]

Yes, my Wikiklesia chapter ended up as #38 (oh, if it were only my age) and got blogged today by Anglican Vicar Paul Walker (who obviously understands being a "Wa…." last name) over at his Out of the Cocoon site.  Here's the permalink.
Paul's been doing a consistently, innovative and insightful job of blogging the [...]

John La Grou (who, yes, has mixed me up with his wife before due to too many incoming "Cynthia" emails) sent out this handy Wikiklesia authors' links list.  You don't even have to go to the wiki to get informed about the interesting and diverse authors who participated in the publication of Voices of the [...]

The Wikiklesia Project: Book One will be released on July 23rd in e-book format on Lulu.  Subtitled “Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution,” the print edition of the book will become available following the virtual release.
The publication features more than forty diverse authors who explore the growing influence of technology [...]

         
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Wikiklesia: Voices of the Virtual World, is a collective anthology designed to explore the growing influence of technology on the global Christian Church.  A diversity of authors with multiple and varied perspectives, bridging denominational (or lack thereof) lines, all published together in a [...]