There is a link below from Nonprofit Technology News on the purpose and use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Before you read this article, it’s also important to realize what social media is and is not.
Let’s start class:
Social media, like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and others, is user-generated content. [...]
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I recently received an encouraging, and also vexing, email from a Christian friend sharing the joy of her pregnancy after years of infertility. It was titled “Prayer Works!” Of course, I am thrilled to share in my friend’s good news. At the same time, her email [...]
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Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court case, which ended race-based restrictions on marriage, was decided in 1967, almost 42 years ago. How is it then, that in 2009, a Louisiana judge was either so ignorant of the law or so arrogant about his power to supersede it, that he denied an interracial couple a [...]
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Darryl Dash is pastor of Richview Baptist Church and host of dashhouse.com. Rev. Dash posted a great article on the importance and freedom of the Sabbath. What can sometimes be a “bonus workday” or “the day where we sit and pray” can [...]
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I spent just over an hour this week interacting with members of Fuller’s Peace and Justice Advocates group. I didn’t know any of these grad students who represented either SOT or ICS and I’m pretty sure that, until I opened my mouth around that table in the brisk morning air of the Garth, none of them knew of me or my efforts these past 32 years at Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles (Rosemead). When it came time to hear from them, one of the theology students asked the question I’ve heard the most after describing the radical transformation that is taking place at EvergreenLA. “What can we do when we’re not the ones in the key leadership seats and when those who occupy those seats don’t want to change in order to become a more vital church?”
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Through no fault/credit of its own, The Burner was allowed to attend Super Bowl 44 this past weekend. Cheering for the Saints brought a special closeness to the city of New Orleans and the people that call the city home. You have probably read (and by now may be [...]
more...Shopping in a place like Whole Foods can get kind of complicated. At the chain’s new LEED-certified store, a few blocks from Fuller right here in Pasadena, shopping for groceries requires Starbuckian levels of terminology: organic, grassfed, free-range, gluten-free, free trade.
Shopping for church can’t be much better. Traditional, mainline, contemporary, [...]
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