The Thin Edge has a reflection on how much our church services rely on technology:

This past Sunday in Wales, a group of elders gathered at their church building to pray. The ancient stone chapel had been without heating since a group of construction workers shut off the gas supply to the building earlier in the [...]

Last week we asked you in our poll whether or not you believed in “black magic.” 219 of you voted in the poll, and many of you participated in a great discussion about the topic. If you’re curious, here’s the poll breakdown:
69%, an overwhelming majority, said that black magic is real and that it’s an [...]

Do you love digital media? Are you interested in missions? I happen to think both are rather keen, which is why I’m reposting this story from Mission Network News:
New ministry fields are opening faster than Audio Scripture Ministries can respond.
ASM’s Tom Dudenhofer says they’re in desperate need of media-technologies people with a [...]

This isn’t the most pressing ethical issue of the day, but it is something I (and probably you too, if you’re reading this) have bumped into: when you’re out and about with your laptop and need to check email, is it ethical to use an unsecured wireless internet connection without getting specific permission to do [...]

Looking through my email this morning, I came across this story about online giving for churches. I found it rather interesting. With the online donation option, the diocese joined a growing group of churches nationwide that are using technology and the Internet to make weekly giving easier.

Churches say high-tech donations are a response to [...]

Please, for your own sake, set your cellphone to “vibrate” when visiting this church:

(Note: as the video creators explain, it’s staged and meant to be humorous.) I love how the pastor interrupts his sermon on love to storm over and smash somebody’s irritating cellphone (while children scamper and shriek unnoticed in the background). I assume [...]

Never let it be said that I missed an opportunity to talk about science fiction here at TC. The TheoFantastique blog has a great interview with James McGrath, sci-fi fan and Professor of Religion at Butler University, about how and why religion crops up in science fiction.
I like McGrath’s use of Star Trek to illustrate [...]

Polls – Take Our Poll Forget bingo games at church; the new church-and-culture controversy involves rocket launchers, aliens, and deathmatches. Hundreds of churches are using the Halo games to connect with young people, according to a NYT article this week: Those buying it must be 17 years old, given it is rated M [...]

So a couple of days ago Yahoo announced their new Yahoo! Search Assist feature. It’s intended to help people find information faster, which, I think, is a noble goal in this information heavy and attention poor world.
However, I have to say, I was a bit taken back when I tried it out for the [...]

Some musings at The Christian Mind blog about coping with information overload. We’ve discussed the “too much of a good thing” problem here before, but it continues to be a challenge for me.