Church Management Apps
Friend, fellow Lancaster dweller, and awesome-design-guy Kyle Sollenberger just launched what promises to be a fantastic new blog called Church Management Apps. Why? Because he is fed up with how the church family communicates! I am too! So, I’ll be a regular at Church Management Apps for sure. If I were you, I’d subscribe to the feed too, because Kyle is well informed and excellent at what he does. This is a great blog in the making.
An Online Bible and Opportunity for Global Collaboration
YouVersion bills itself as a revolutionary online community! And it just may be! Its revolutionary potential finds a catalyst in the fact that it is a community built totally around the Bible and conversations about the Bible. YouVersion is a community built around the idea that online collaboration and interactive sharing can actually change the way we interact with the texts and one another in important ways. YouVersion is the epitome of “Open Source” theology and Biblical study. If there was ever a sign of the global decentralization of Biblical interpretation, this is it. Said differently, the work of Biblical interpretation has been freed from the ivory - and stale - towers of academia. The reformers would be amazed! This ‘aint the 16th century no more!
This is not your run-of-the-mill pew Bible. It’s not just another online Bible either. This is a fully interactive Bible that features 16 translations and community collaboration! The community collaboration is the most important feature of this virtual Bible. Users can add notes, commentary, stories and help decide if what others have added is relevant to the text to which it was added. Basically, this is an open source commentary that evolves, grows, and corrects itself in community. It is truly remarkable. Read More »
Dear God Prayers
Dear God is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes and fears through prayer. The personal prayers submitted to Dear God span the wide spectrum of human emotion and passion. The photography and graphic images are fantastic too!
My Twine Beta Invite is Here
I finally received my Beta invite to explore and toy around with Twine! So, I’ll be busy organizing, sharing, and discovering information! I’ll be sure to report back! What is Twine?
Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.
I do believe 2008 will be the year of content and information editing and organization. We are going to see a plethora of web applications that help us organize and stream line all of our online information and product. We’ll probably see more human editing too, of some sort. We need it. There is just so much content online now, it’s difficult to sift through it all, much less make sense of it.
Internet Evangelism Day 2008
Are you an Internet evangelist? Do you live with an Internet evangelist? If either is the case, then by all means do check out or pass the word about Internet Evangelism Day (IED). You can access a bunch of online resources at the official IED web site that will aid you in your digital outreach and evangelism. Incidentally, Internet Evangelism Day is being celebrated on the 27th of April. Personally, I’m not sold on the idea. I think relationships in real-time are pretty important in meaningful evangelism, but with God, I know, anything is possible!
UPDATE: I received a note from Internet Evangelism Day Coordinator, Tony Whittaker. I think Tony makes some really awesome points. Check Tony’s note after the jump (reprinted with permission). Read More »
Share Your Sermons with Google Base
Google is getting faith, it seems. Now you can upload and showcase and share your sermons and writings via Google Base. It is a good thing that Google Base is in Beta because I have not been able to successfully sign into the application as of yet. It’s stuck in a perpetual load sequence.
Learn How to Speak Hip
I’m learning how to speak hip as part of my continued effort and dedication to preach culturally relevant sermons on Sunday mornings.
My Mini-City Named Parable
I established a mini-city during my hiatus. I named it Parable. It evolves virtually over time. You can help me increase the population of Parable by visiting it!
The Prisoners’ Dilemma
A biological and sociological game is afoot! Take on a fiendish cyberspace wizard in The Prisoners’ Dilemma!
Prisoners’ Dilemma is a game which has been and continues to be studied by people in a variety of disciplines, ranging from biology through sociology and public policy. Among its interesting characteristics are that it is a “non-zero-sum” game: the best strategy for a given player is often one that increases the payoff to one’s partner as well. It has also been shown that there is no single “best” strategy: how to maximize one’s own payoff depends on the strategy adopted by one’s partner.
Happy News is Good News!
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ideas! Finally, there is a news site that is not - repeat not - dedicated to the same old sensationalist gore, violence and human depression. Check Happy News for a brighter presentation of national and international news. If you are looking for war and famine, it won’t be found at Happy News.
