Church
Doing life together
Be advised: this post is pretty long and a bit “out there.” Now you can’t say I didn’t warn you.
I have a few random things that I get excited about, things that make everyone else think I’m crazy. One of these things is the concept of communes. I don’t mean communes in [...]
An awesome new tool for praying geeks
I’ve been part of the private beta for People2Pray for a while now, and I like it a lot. So much that I really wanted to tell everyone about it (and get people I know to sign up for it), but since it was in private beta, that wasn’t really practical. Happy me this morning [...]
“I’ll do anything!”
There’s this mission trip that my church conference is doing in March. It sounds pretty cool: they’ll be going to South America to meet both spiritual needs (by preaching and teaching) and physical needs (health care, etc.). I heard about it at a time when I was particularly open to “doing something for [...]
Experience Retreat Number Three
I’ve been kind of quiet lately because I’ve been processing. There’s so much to say and explain, and the more I think about writing it all out, the more overwhelming it seems. Those of you who have read this chronicle for a long time will know that my church, The Experience, has had [...]
Churches and marketing
I found Andy’s post interesting: Scientology’s Marketing Lessons. It kind of ties in with my posts on why some churches are stronger than others and Scientology’s dark side.
Get serious and pull together
A very interesting article talking about the appeal of strictness:The Power of the Mustard Seed - Why strict churches are strong. By Judith Shulevitz
“Godcasts”
Missed Church? Download It to Your IPod.
I thought this was a cool use of technology (though not, as the headline implies, as a replacement for church… my church is about a whole lot more than just the sermon). We’re almost set up to do this, actually, since Kaleb’s been recording and compressing the sermons.
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