The Digital Sanctuary

Today is a “Mass Blogging Day” for those of us who are meeting in Los Angeles at Biola University on September 11 – 12 for the Christian Web Conference. If you have any interest in the dialog about online faith communities (can digital be incarnational?), this will be the place to have your [...]

The blogosphere will be missing a couple of faithful bloggers over the next season.  Heather Whittaker (aka Whittakerwoman) and Crystal Renaud (aka PinkHairedGirl) both long-term bloggers are on blogging sabbaticals of indefinite length.
Heather, one of the sweetest gals ever and wife of well-known North Point – Buckhead Campus worship leader Carlos Whittaker, is going to [...]

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Anne Jackson’s FB page.  After a season of contemplation, Anne, known to the blogsphere as FlowerDust.net, has pulled the plug on her facebook page – well actually deleted her account completely.  You can read her entry here.
Fortunately for Anne’s community of followers, it [...]

LifeChurch.tv has done it again.  They have pioneered a new iteration of convergence by getting the Facebook team to allow LifeChurch.tv to integrate status updates into their online church Easter experiences and into Facebook itself.   You heard me right.   This is what happens when the Digerati Team eats their vegetables.
Here’s a detailed email I [...]

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 [...]

Good thing we’re all wearing name tags!  The place is packed with people whose teachings we watch on tv, or whose books we buy, whose blogs we read and those we know virtually, etc.  It’s confusing to keep everyone straight.
It’s pretty well known that conferences, in general, are becoming increasingly unpopular.  The reasons are numerous.  [...]

Just a reminder, if you are looking for topical information – in this screen shot – Church (see also: Christianity and Religion) related articles – Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop.com still performs beautifully.  No matter what subject you’re looking for information on, chances are, there’s an Alltop page to serve you.

Kent Shaffer, known around our house as the human encyclopedia of all things “church statistics” related, and known to the blogosphere as Church Relevance, has compiled a substantial research list of the Top 60 Church Blogs.
Likely you can guess what my favorite thing about this list is.   And no, it’s not the fact that [...]

“Communication technologies change, but the fundamentals of good, true, and beautiful communication are age-old.  How can we communicate better with one another—along with or sometimes in spite of new technologies?”  These are the thoughts of this week’s media scholar and Blog of the Weekend, Dr. Quentin J. Schultze.

Dr. Schultze (the “e” is silent) is a [...]

What is Blog Action Day?
Today, October 15, 2008, has been designated as the day set aside for thousands of bloggers with millions of readers (last time I checked over 10 million feed readers) to unite for the purpose of discussing a single issue – poverty.
The hope is that global discussion across the blogosphere [...]