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Tweeting in Church?

A piece from NYTimes on how many churches are trying to embrace social media networks and tools (e.g. Facebook, Twitter), and the tensions they face.
Our Father, Lead Us to Tweet, and Forgive the Trespassers
Experts say there are many degrees of openness for religious groups tuning into social media. Some carefully restrict access and even require [...]

July 4th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: church, technology | Leave a comment

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant

Well worth the read, witty and challenging:
Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance
By Peter Laarman over at ReligionDispatches
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Why has so much religious leadership come to look like “the bland leading the bland”? On the occasion of Pentecost, we present a romp through the wide range of Protestantisms, and answer the question: [...]

June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Christian culture, church | Leave a comment

on Christian architecture

Yesterday I attended a conference which was held at a large church building in Orange County, California. Everything about the property – architecture, landscape (there is a pond!), parking lot/structure – was grand, magnificent, and opulent in comparison to your average church. It was like a new business/conference building development with the feel of a Disneyland [...]

April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Christian culture, New Testament, archaeology, church | Leave a comment

NT Wright: The Church must stop trivialising Easter

In the Times, NT Wright, bishop of Durham (UK), has a good article on the resurrection:The Church must stop trivialising Easter:
Christians must keep their nerve: the Resurrection isn’t a metaphor, it’s a physical fact
Here are a couple of paragraphs from the article:
Easter has been sidelined because this message doesn’t fit our prevailing world view. [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Christian culture, New Testament, church | Leave a comment