News and Thought : News and Thought, Computers and Technology

Looking at Technology in Churches Large and Small

jane — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:12:00 GMT

One of our local congregational technology guys, Daryl Cripe from Grace Community Church in Noblesville, was featured in Technologies for Worship Magazine. This on-line article, "Avoid Willow Envy" by Kevin Rogers Cobus...(read more)

Social Networking and Congregations

jane — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:54:00 GMT

A recent YouTube video titled “Social Networking in Plain English” claims networks are only as valuable as the people and connections one can see. If I think about real “friends” and connections in my life this makes perfect sense. ...(read more)

Network of Faith

jane — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:52:00 GMT

The Evansville Courier Press recently featured an article on congregations and social networking, highlighting information from local congregational leaders and from Wendy McCormick, director of the Center for Congregations' southwest office. ...(read more)

Mark Chaves: Congregations embrace technology

Aaron Spiegel — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:10:00 GMT

Of everything that we measured in both the 1998 and 2006-07 National Congregations Study (NCS), by far the largest change we registered was in congregations’ use of computer technology....(read more)

Do You Twitter?

jane — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:56:00 GMT

I Twitter. Do you? If you don’t, then maybe it’s because you don’t even know what Twitter is. Twitter is a free, social networking service...(read more)

Bible Geography

jane — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:07:00 GMT

Ever want to locate someplace mentioned in the Bible on a modern day map? Here’s a website that allows you to do just that, ...(read more)

Social Networking and Congregations

Aaron Spiegel — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Social networking (the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, mostly done online) has become a phenomena. We want to know if you're using these tools and if so, how....(read more)