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TC, Meet the Kindle.

Posted January 12th @ 9:18 am by Jerod Clark

We’re always looking for ways to make it easier for you to access Think Christian.  Now, whenever you fire up your Kindle, you can get the latest post from TC. With a Kindle Blog subscription to Think Christian when there’s a new article, it will be automatically sent to your Kindle.  (There is a small [...]

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Church Online in Real Life

Posted December 10th @ 11:52 am by Jerod Clark

A couple of months ago, we had a conversation about online church.  Now lifechurch.tv, which is well known as a leader in online worship, has put out a video showing what it might be like if all of those online church goers actually ended up in a brick and mortar building.  It’s always good when [...]

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Smartphone as the Ring of Doom?

Posted November 4th @ 2:17 pm by Paul Vander Klay

I’m a gadget nerd whose Verizon contract is almost up so I’m shopping for my next phone. Here’s an ad from HTC.

Tim Keller quotes Tom Shippey in Counterfeit Gods as calling Sauron’s ring in The Lord of the Rings “a psychic amplifier”. They take our heart’s good desires and amplify them to idolatrous proportions (pg. [...]

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Friendship by the Numbers?

Posted August 4th @ 7:49 am by Bethany Keeley

Catholic archbishop Vincent Nichols said in a recent interview with the Telegraph that he is concerned about the impact websites like Facebook and Myspace are having on teenagers.  Though I am generally suspicious of generalizations made about “kids these days,” and suspect the problems he points to can be tracked to other causes, one point [...]

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Oldest Known Bible Now Online

Posted July 14th @ 12:01 pm by Jerod Clark

Recently, the oldest known version of the Bible went digital. The 1,600-year-old, hand written Codex Sinaiticus has been spread out in four different locations, but historians and scholars are now bringing the pieces together online.
The Codex Sinaiticus is significant because it’s the oldest complete Greek text of the New Testament that includes hand written [...]

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Can wisdom come in 140 characters or less? Ask Solomon

Posted June 22nd @ 6:26 am by Nathan Bierma

A core principle of the backlash against the social messaging service Twitter—or are we up to the backlash against the anti-backlash now?—is that shorter messages are dumber messages. Twitter constrains messages to a mere 140 characters, and critics say it just puts another dent in our insect-like attention spans, and our ability to think and [...]

Handheld devices in church?

Posted April 8th @ 7:55 am by Nathan Bierma

Use of mobile.biblegateway.com on an average Sunday morning, according to Bible Gateway
When I saw this chart (which I found via my TC colleague David Ker at futurebible) I could hear the alarmists worrying out loud: Using cell phones and blackberries in church! Is nothing—or no place—sacred anymore? It reminded me of this article on how [...]

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Pocket God

Posted March 26th @ 9:55 am by Jerod Clark

The number one paid app for the iPhone right now is a game called “Pocket God.” For $0.99, you are promised that you can understand what it would be like to be a god.
Here’s how the game’s creators tout the app.
What kind of god would you be?  Benevolent or vengeful? Play Pocket God and discover [...]

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The Family that Prays Together…

Posted February 20th @ 12:00 pm by Steven Koster

For almost sixty years, we’ve published a daily devotional booklet, first called The Family Altar and then Today. And we print hundreds of thousands of them every two months. Many on our mailing list receive the Today in bulk, for redistribution in their own congregations and neighborhoods.
Lately though, because of the economic downturn, we decided [...]

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Tweets of Common Prayer: an ancient practice on new technology

Posted February 9th @ 11:24 am by Nathan Bierma

I was a Twitter skeptic before I was a Twitter convert. Why, exactly, do I need a more efficient method of delivery for the mundanities of other people’s lives? I only got hooked on Twitter – which, for the uninitiated, is basically a mini-blog – through some of its other uses: dispensing quips, bookmarking links, [...]

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