A blog post by Terri Elton
Image Credit: Social Media Apps by Jason Howie on Flickr
As we come to the end of our month thinking about this command and wrestling with what this question means for our leadership and ministry, let me pause and reflect on seven learnings.
1. It’s ok to feel incompetent! We live in a time when we are moving off the map, away from the territory many of us knew and into uncharted waters. It’s ok to be disoriented. But it’s not ok to let that …
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A blog post by Suzie Porter
Image Credit: Failure is not final by Live Life Happy on Flickr
My New Year’s resolution for this year is to fail. Here we are, a few weeks into a new year, and I am sporting my first ever stitches. It’s not exactly the failure I was going for when I made this resolution.
It may sound rather bleak. Truth be told, I have no desire to have a year full of failures as I look back on 2014 next December. When I made this resolution, I was thinking of the year ahead …
A blog post by Kelsey Battleson
Image Credit: iPad & Friends by Yutaka Tsutano on Flickr
Every morning my commute to work is an hour on average, and within five minutes of my drive, I pass a billboard that every day for two months now has hijacked my train of thought as I finish my commute. On an eye-catching purple background, a clever advertising slogan for Roku is printed: “Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa. We all worship TV.”
If you haven’t used one yet, a Roku is a small …
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A blog post by Jessica Thielke
Image Credit: iPhone iPhone iPhone by Braden Kowitz on Flickr
I recently finished a class at Luther Seminary about the uses of media and ministry. How can we most effectively use media? Can we use it to build community? If so, how? How can we embrace the digital age we find ourselves in?
I don’t have the answers to any of these questions…I have ponderings, and perhaps a few tricks up my sleeve to take back to my current congregation, but definitely …
A blog post by Terri Elton
Image Credit: Social Media Apps by Jason Howie on Flickr
It doesn’t take much to make me feel incompetent when it comes to technology. For example, while my college daughter was home during break, I asked for help fixing something in iTunes. After a sigh, she let me know iTunes was “out” and Spotify was better. Now, I knew about Spotify, but didn’t know how it worked. Forty-five minutes later I was up to speed with a few playlists and friends.
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