Digital Discipleship: Bigger Bible Conversations: Online and Offline
In the past week, the age-old debate about the role of Christianity in public life has come alive again. The heavily-reported findings of a survey by the Richard Dawkins Foundation suggest that Christianity is increasingly unimportant to those who self-identify as Christian. Baroness Warsi’s speech to the Vatican bemoaned the social dominance of ‘secular fundamentalism’: [...]
The web was abuzz earlier this week with the almost apocalyptic Wikipedia blackout. This was a political protest to protect life as we know it – ready access to a near-infinite supply of potentially spurious information. The folks at Wikipedia (along with everyone else who believes in the open Web) object to two Bills in [...]
I have recently taken responsibility for a prayer fellowship connected to my old school. We hold a couple of meetings each year and keep members up-to-date with a bi-annual newsletter. The members are largely of an older demographic and the group has been extremely important to many of them for decades. It has been a [...]
One of the great merits of Twitter is the brevity of communication it demands. When you only have 140 characters at your disposal, you have little option but to consider your choice of words wisely. Twitter forces you to write just what you need in order to get your message across, no more, no less. [...]
This photograph, from William Warby, gives me the creeps. It shows a wax effigy of Guy Fawkes about to be burned on 5th November last year. The photographer shared this image on Flickr, and it was then picked up for use on the Wikipedia page for Guy Fawkes Night. It is a brilliant image, but [...]
Last December I was at a 21st birthday party. A couple of us thought that this special occaion deserved a special gift, so we bought a notebook in which the guests could record their memories. This meant that we spent all evening hiding from the birthday girl, smuggling this notebook from person to person to [...]
My brief for my #digidisciple posts is to write about “Internet innovations and how Christians can use them in discipleship, church and outreach”. I can almost hear the exclamations of surprise that I am going to argue the case for web forums as an “innovation”. Forums are so 90’s, aren’t they? Forums are certainly out [...]
Have you ever thought about how you could use internet innovations in discipleship, church and outreach? If that conjures up a horrible mental image of some church ‘Foresight and Planning Committee Towards the Implementation of a Digital Media Strategy’ formulating a series of action points, I want to bring things back to basics for you. [...]
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