The current existence of the publishing industry is doomed. I’ve been saying this for a while, but this article does a artful job making this case and I thought I’d share it with you (thanks for the link John). Here’s just a sample of what awaits you in the article, With the old economics destroyed,…
Month: March 2009
The World of Kindle
Amazon’s Kindle software recently landed in the iTunes app store and so I decided to download it to give it a spin. So far so good. Before I give my review of the software, however, let me point out that I’m in no way ready to make the jump into eBooks for three reasons: Right…
Why do we have “worship wars?”
At the moment I’m reading Her Heart Can See, a biography of Fanny Crosby. The book plods along a big, but in the middle there is a wondeful discussion on the musical transition that took place during the mid-1800’s in Americal. A movement began to improve congregational singing by moving away from traditional shape-note singing,…
Tech Support Memories
I used to do tech support. Now I’m a pastor, which may very well be the spiritual equivilant of tech support. Today I came across this post over on Crunch Gear about what tech support people really mean. Basically, it nails us. It made me reflect on the tactic I usually had to utilized to…
Are Digital Sermons Necessary?
I’ve lately encountered a disturbing trend on a number of blogs regarding the use of a projection screen in worship (particularly for sermons). I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this, given the “on/off” reactionary mentality of Protestantism, but at the same time it’s disconcerting. What I’m seeing is the mocking of using a presentation…
A response to, “Five reasons to not give up something for Lent”
Update – looks like my comment on TC has be saved from moderation limbo, I’ll leave this up though since people are commenting. Well, over at Think Christian I came across this post entitled “Five Reasons Not To Give Up Something For Lent.” I posted these responses over in Think Christian – but the ether…
