Sven Birkerts: Literary culture in the electronic age
Google vs Gutenberg. Author Sven Birkerts asks: What is lost in the rush to embrace digital culture?
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Where two or more are gathered ...on Facebook
Much to her surprise, Cathleen Falsani finds community -- real, authentic, deeply connected, deeply faithful community -- online.
Gerardo Marti: The wi-fi church of the future (and present)
The omnipresence of smartphones and possibilities of GPS will change the way we experience church.
Matthew Phillips: Content or Communion?
Why shouldn’t we just download the best sermon available at iTunes for our Sunday worship?
Tafadzwa Mudambanuki: African Christians build community using radio and the Internet
The ‘ancient landmarks’ of the Bible are key to the gospel message, however you communicate it, says the director of UMC communications in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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.
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.
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