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Church uses vandalism as social media message

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Alan Rudnick — No Comments ↓

What do church leaders usually do when someone vandalizes the side of a church with graffiti? Cover it up, repaint, or remove the vandalism. A church in Randolph, New York was recently vandalized with the words, “Can I still get into heaven…

Your own personal Jesus

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Starlette McNeill — No Comments ↓

“Any time. Any place. Any race.”

Tagged with: Personal Jesus, race
Posted in Racial Reconciliation, Religion, Technology & Church, Theology

The Bible: Satan, Obama, and social media

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Alan Rudnick — No Comments ↓

Viewers who watched “The Bible” mini series took to social media to quickly point out a disturbing observation. The character, Satan has a striking resemblance to Barack Obama. The actor, Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni, obviously wore makeup. Twitter was abuzz: People upset Satan in #TheBible looks like…

Tagged with: Alan Rudnick, History Channel, Obama, Satan, The Bible
Posted in Media & Arts, Technology & Church, TV

Naked church

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Julie Pennington-Russell — No Comments ↓

Dear Church: if you bring good news to your community you won’t need to inform your neighbors. They already know. If you don’t—well, chances are everybody knows but you. Let’s get down to it: a church is either welcome relief…

Tagged with: Baptist, Christianity, Church, community, congregation, God, Jesus, social media
Posted in Blog Posts, Humor, Leadership, Ministry, Technology & Church

The edgy Christian media startup you need to check out

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Alan Rudnick — No Comments ↓

More and more, Christian media outfits try to create their own social media platforms to get noticed. However, a new edgy social media startup, “Sogo” is taking a different route on social media to get their message out. Sogo describes…

Cyber Monday and the Church

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Alan Rudnick — No Comments ↓

Back in 2005, a group of retailers wanted to find a way to cash in on consumer’s desire to find deals around Thanksgiving. So, a trade group created Cyber Monday as an unofficial day to offering discounts during the Christmas…

Tagged with: Cyber monday
Posted in Technology & Church

The Lakers and a lesson

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Chris Aho — No Comments ↓

This week the Los Angeles Lakers hired a new basketball coach. After five losses to open the season, they replaced Mike Brown with former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks head coach, Mike D’Antoni. Discussion of the Lakers choice of…

Tagged with: Body, Body of Christ, Church, community, Dream Team, Lakers, Paul, Pop-Culture, sports
Posted in Faithful Living, Media & Arts, Sports, Technology & Church

Rebalancing congregational finances for missional ministry

Posted on October 16, 2012 by George Bullard — 1 Comment ↓

Your congregational budget has become a straitjacket. What do you do to rebalance your finances for missional ministry? You have at least two choices. One is to take an allocation approach and the other is to take an innovation approach.…

Six ways to set a positive blog tone

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Alan Rudnick — No Comments ↓

I had an epiphany regarding my Albany Times Union blog and the tone of negativity in the comment section. In the interest of freedom, openness, and free speech I had unknowingly allowed my blog to become a swamp of negativity.…

Tagged with: baptist blogger, blogger, comment moderation, Facebook, internet troll, social media, trolls, twiiter
Posted in Leadership, Technology & Church

Social media can change spiritual habits

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Alan Rudnick — No Comments ↓

Remember to enter to win a free copy of my new Judson Press book. Even though 89% of American households have a Bible, the number of those who read it daily is very low. A new study released by LifeWay…