The Digital Sanctuary

Remember way back when, when we all voted on panels for SxSW?
Videos of today’s SxSW gathering are already hitting YouTube.  Thanks Tony Steward for streaming live on your iPhone.
Technology For Results, Not Profits featured a couple of the LifeChurch.tv digerati, Terry Storch & Bobby Grunewald, engaging audience members on ways nonprofits can maintain and even [...]

My great friends at Fellowship One Technologies hosting the Dynamic Church Conference (DC10) are offering a $50.00 off deal!  This is an unbeatable opportunity for all those happy campers who use F1 technologies and those interested in doing so.
DC10 is a three-day educational event focused on teaching users and developers how to effectively leverage Fellowship [...]

Ed Young gets his rap on…..
By referencing a handful of  well known US pastors in this You Tube video rap experiment, Fellowship Church’s Senior Pastor, Ed Young takes ‘using video clips for ministry purposes’ in an unexpected direction.

Ed names Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Craig Groeschel, John Piper, Andy Stanley, Louie Giglio, TD Jakes, [...]

Worship Leader magazine just emailed me announcing that DJ Chuang will join the company as Network Developer.   Although I forgot to blog it, I got the privilege of writing for Worship Leader last summer  (Cynthia Ware – Worship Leader’s Toolbox) and have been so impressed with their persistent and ongoing focus on the use of [...]

Exciting news to report from the YouVersion Team.  (thanks @tonysteward)
They’ve just launched 20+ Bible reading plans across their website and their mobile applications.
Although there have been lists and plans out there for while, this is the first time they’ve integrated them into a free Bible platform that offers so many different translations/languages and is on [...]

Dallas Theological Seminary’s Center for Christian Leadership is hosting Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels (my review), for a one day conference in Dallas called The Electronic Gospel: How Technology Shapes Our Faith on February 8th, 2010. Here’s the official description:
A conference about engaging technology with discernment, creativity, and purpose as you articulate the [...]

Marketing gurus Phil Cooke and Brad Abare appeared in a livestream chat this morning on Conversant Life.  These guys are two of the most sought-after consultants in the field of church and religious media communications.
Hearing them talk about Christians / media / church / communication / change / effectiveness is amazing because of the way [...]

Last week Guy Kawasaki directed his readers to a piece called 5 Ways to Create a Future-minded Non-profit.  The timing was a great read for me as I get more deeply involved in working with the Center for Church Communication, a non-profit group that “helps the Church matter”.
For me, reading the article allows easy application [...]

This week I’m headed for Chicago and Cultivate 09.  Then on to Ben Arment’s Story Gathering. Cultivate will be streaming live and I’ll be doing the interviews with facilitators all day. Who do you wanna see?

Kem Meyer
Dawn Nicole Baldwin
Matt Knisely
Tim Schraeder
Maurilio Amorim
Blair Farley
Drew Goodmanson
Jon Acuff
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Since we are still evaluating the reality & potential of church online the question just keeps coming up: “Of course, [virtual church] is possible. But is it biblical?”
The following is a response to me from Douglas Estes, author of SimChurch regarding his reflections on this post by Drew Goodmanson – Is Online Community real community; [...]