Melissa Wiginton: Grace after the shooting (administered on Facebook)
Everyone feels the tragedy, but few actually know the people who were hurt.
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Christopher L. Heuertz: A life less Tweeted
The answer to hipster and hustler culture is a novel so undramatic I couldn’t put it down.
Tom Arthur: The crackberry and holy timekeeping
Noxious as the smartphones are, they can show what we value in ministry.
'The Social Network'
Cathleen Falsani finds that the movie version of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg misses the very point of the social network: to reconnect with people with whom we already have a relationship.
Jane Austen wrote the book of Ruth, and other truths I've learned in my first year of Tweeting the Bible
Jana Riess set out a year ago to tweet the Bible, reading the Good Book and summarizing it in 140-character-long humorous commentaries. The project has proved to be fun, racy, messy -- and has connected her with a far-flung community.
Carol Howard Merritt: Social media for social justice
One advocacy organization that works on behalf of its homeless friends finds itself too busy not to tweet.
Carol Howard Merritt: Search committees and Google
What happens if someone on a search committee Googles the name of a candidate who has been attacked by a vicious blogger?
Nick Liao: Hauerwas names friends (and enemies) by name
Piling up Facebook friends seems ridiculous. But “Hannah’s Child” shows that Christians can’t have too many friends.
Who are you without Google?
Texts have the power to change lives. But only if the reader is willing to spend time with them, writes Timothy Larsen.
Plugged in . . . to the future
In the heart of tobacco country, a United Methodist church is helping create a new economic future by providing adult computer training. Some members weren’t sure, but most agreed: It’s exactly what the church should be doing.
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