Mark Chaves: Why do fewer black churches have websites than their white counterparts?
An astute comment here on C&R sent Chaves back to his study. His hypothesis, that the gap reflects a difference in resources, was only partly right.
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Learning to speak
The heart of Christian community is connecting, confessing and witnessing together the work of God. It doesn’t matter whether you do it live or on Twitter, writes Amey Victoria Adkins.
Carol Howard Merritt: Women get to talk now, too
Due to the open world of the web and social networking, it’s getting harder to exclude women's voices from church conferences, even when organizers may wish to.
Joshua Benton: Putting the social in social media
Finding the right tool isn’t the answer to communicating online. Social media has to have the tenor of human conversation to be effective, says Joshua Benton.
Graham Ford: Tweet-ological discourse
How do Christian leaders make sense of the technologies coming at us in waves? Like Karl Barth would do: by attending to what kind of people these new media turn us into.
Daniel Howe: What hath God wrought?
You think the Internet is changing things? You should have seen the telegraph. A Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian talks about the lessons we can learn from early-19th-century America.
Richard J. Mouw: "Calvinist" does not mean "grim"
Whatever the merits of Kindle, to describe its demerit of "grimness" as "Calvinist" is simply loopy.
Melissa Wiginton: Down with Twitter
Do I have to Tweet in order to have credibility? Do they have a saying in their movement “Never trust anyone who doesn’t do Twitter?”
Jason Byassee: Is digital the new normal?
Lifechurch.tv says its use of satellite and the internet to simulcast sermons is hardly innovative--it's just what's expected now. What if they're right?
Mark Chaves: Congregations embrace technology
The biggest change in congregational life in the past decade? Embrace of technology. And it's not even close.
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