The Digital Sanctuary

Here’s an excerpt from the Echo Conference blog to celebrate Echo Conference ‘09….
One of the things we’re most excited about for this year’s Echo experience is our panel discussion featuring Bobby Gruenewald, Carlos Whittaker, Conway Edwards, Cynthia Ware, and Scott Hodge.  The panel will be a free-flowing conversation that covers current and future trends in [...]

“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 [...]

In terms of leadership combining a scholarly approach to the evaluation of new media and the church, Dr. (to be) Mark Brown stands out.  His personal website, Brownblog, provides fresh thinking about Christian ministry.

Mark, who was the National Director of the Scripture Union in New Zealand for three years, is now the CEO of The [...]

Since Christian leaders, especially pastors, are often “wired” for serving others, it’s not really a surprise that online communication technologies can sometimes trick us, tempting us to serve them rather than serving us.
No matter which technologies you and your staff elect to use, from Google docs to Yammer, we can probably all agree, the most [...]

Today I’m presenting “Leveraging Technology to Support Community” at the Group Life Conference.  I’ll upload it to SlideShare when I have time so you can access it.  My experience at Willow Creek has been amazing and being with scores of people who are desperate to learn how to serve others better has been invigorating.
Yesterday, in [...]

When I changed my domain name and upgraded my WordPress from 2.3.3 to 2.5 I noticed a lot of things around here were neglected.  I found a pile of 51 unpublished, incomplete drafts.  Time to delete.  I found mis-loaded images, broken links, outdated blogroll entries, etc.  I could use a couple of days of site [...]

Some people are skeptical about the internet being a viable tool for sharing one's faith.  While some argue about the validity of such efforts, others are mobilizing resources and taking action. 
For example, the Internet Evangelism Coalition, an umbrella group of evangelical Christian organizations who share a vision [...]