Chronic illness resulting from self destructive life choices has prompted a national health emergency. We're fat and getting fatter. Heart problems, obesity and diabetes result from Americans' unwillingness to eat right and exercise. [Read More]
A place at the beach used to be a dream. Now "for sale" signs prove the dream may be less palatable than the anticipation. Dream bigger. [Read More]
Wikipedia and the New Curriculum could, with a change of phrasing here and there, be Church wiki; The bountiful, unexplored country . Collaborative media bring to the ministry the same collective knowledge and energy they bring to secular persuits. If ...
Anyone who says Baptist Sunday School classes aren't ready for twitter hasn't noticed how many church members carry cellphones . Twitter provides easy-to-use micro-blogging via cellphone (and of course Web interface), with equally easy-to-use social...
Just as blogs are not fads , social networks like twitter are not gimmicks. They are powerful tools which in skilled hands do good work, like raise money for the fight against breast cancer . They are tools which require a deft, honest touch...
Etiquette? For a playful flashmob variant like flashprenuptial ? Baptists mostly still blog as though blogs were sermons and someone besides another minister might actually read a sermon-length blog. As if almost anyone not joined at the hip to the...
Stumbling around twitter and reading microblogs at random, I tripped over folks from the backwoods, like SwampGirl, whose father owned until recently the Jeep my father drove to the hospital the night I was born. She's a church-going woman, and brought...
"What are you doing?" , twitter asks every user: As o f early Monday, delivering the Biblical Recorder's message to twitter 's roughly 500,000 members. The number is growing at a rate of some 2,000 a day. Together in that network space and...