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Valuing our virtual companions on the journey
Important relationships began over Zoom during COVID-19. Let’s not discount their significance as we return to in-person gatherings, writes a communications specialist with Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Emily Lund
Communications Specialist, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
What Paul can teach us about distance education
Paul formed many Christian communities without being with them in person.
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Colin Yuckman
Senior director of digital learning formation at Duke Divinity School
Humbly sustaining the weary with a word, post or reel
Faith leaders have a responsibility to use social media with intentionality and humility, writes the director of grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Mycal X. Brickhouse
Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Pastors were not prepared for the digital demands of the pandemic. What does that teach us about the next crisis?
Of all the new things they were asked to take on during the pandemic, it was technology work and decision making that pastors felt the least prepared for, according to a two-year study from Texas A&M University.
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Heidi A. Campbell
Professor, Texas A&M University
Working online from home is fraught for queer clergy
COVID burst into our homes without our consent, upending nearly every part of our lives. Very quickly, where we worked, how we moved and what was safe became unclear, especially for queer clergy, writes the executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches.
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Laura Everett
Executive director, Massachusetts Council of Churches
TheoEd brings the TED Talk model to Christian leaders
What does it take to engage public audiences in conversations about God, religion and the power of faith to shape lives and communities? Hosting TED-style talks is one answer, writes an assistant professor at Candler School of Theology.
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Ryan P. Bonfiglio
Assistant professor, Candler School of Theology
Shifting politics and boosted technology were taking hold in some congregations pre-pandemic
While congregational life for many has been altered in the last two years by COVID-19, the latest iteration of the National Congregations Study shows that changes were already underway in faith communities.
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Edie Gross
Journalist
Kate Bowler: Sharing anti-Instagram theology — on Instagram
In her new book and on other platforms, divinity professor Kate Bowler explores what it means to live well even if our lives are never “finished.”
Technology, formation and the lure of easy answers
Instead of fearing or uncritically embracing every new technology, Christians ought to ask what our use of technology says about us, says the director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning at Calvin University.
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David I. Smith
Professor, Calvin University
Jacob Marques Rollison: Why Jacques Ellul is relevant today
With more modes of communication than ever, why are we still so divided? French theologian Jacques Ellul can point us toward an answer.
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Jacob Marques Rollison
Scholar and translator
