Month April 2007

Ways to use your Twitter

There’s a very practical and innovative use for SMS and RSS combo services like Twitter. Swing by the Swerve blog and see how one church is using it for ministry purposes. You can also check in the right sidebar for…

If it ain’t broke…

As we say here in south Arkansas, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. However, that approach has led to more than one massive mistake by a refusal to understand and embrace change. Researchers at Stanford (among others) are also…

Virginia Tech connections

As the story of the tragedy at Virginia Tech continues to unfold, it is another sobering societal call to quietness. I am profoundly aware of the “calm after the storm” on the major news media today. It is akin to…

Kool-Aid cleans?

Lifehacker posts this startling tip from one of Carolyn’s favorite magazines, Real Simple: use Kool-Aid to clean your dishwasher! Go read the post (and make sure you use the right flavor!) By the way, if the Real Simple site becomes…

You Google? (update!)

I love this from Brian Glass: Now that Google has taken over the world and has become the next Microsoft, it’s about time for me to start hating it and eradicate it from my life. But for some reason I…

Different viewpoints on youth group attrition

After serving for 8 years in collegiate ministry on a university campus, I have seen the disturbing trend of “churched” high school students dropping out of church soon after their involvement in collegiate life. I’ve posted here a few times…