Surely no-one is surprised at the latest revelation that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on 689,003 of its users, without breaking the terms of use that you agreed to when you signed up for facebook. If you’re curious, they found that reading a bunch of negative, or positive posts is somewhat contagious, and will affect …
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hot air about a balloon
Today and yesterday there was a lot of media coverage (e.g. Fitz, ABC news in the US, Herald Sun, SMH, Daily Mail) of the hot air balloon that an Australian gambling company sent flying over Melbourne. Based on the Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro It looked like this: Depending on who you …
#sydneychallies: How to use emerging media for the gospel
Even though I read much of what Challies writes on his blog, I didn’t realise he was coming to Sydney until I saw it on Dave Meiers’ blog. I was able to get a free night, and so I went along to the “social media for pastors” evening, despite not particularly identifying as a “pastor” …
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on the eve of big school
I don’t often blog here about parenting things, but this seemed an appropriate milestone. Tomorrow, my eldest goes to school. Over the weekend we visited my parents, and looked through the old family photos of my own first day at school. In these photos, my parents – now around retirement age – are my …
the Christmas story in instagram photos
Surprisingly effective way to summarise a series of traditional touch-points. [via Church Marketing]
domains and content for church websites
A friend posted this question on facebook Thinking about Church websites, any one got an opinion as to what suffix to use. eg. should it be .com .com.au, .org, .org.au. Also what features do you reckon a good church website should have. thanks If you’re a church, I think you should have a dot-org domain …
life, the universe and nothing – part two
City Bible Forum paid to bring both Lawrence Krauss and William Lane Craig from their respective universities for a three-part series of conversations called “Life, the Universe and Nothing”. The series is a little hard for the average person to attend – the first session was in Brisbane, the second in Sydney, and the third …
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bible software and the commercialisation of spirituality
Last week I read the NYT article on the YouVersion bible app – it talks about YouVersion – an ad-free Bible on your phone, tablet and computer. The very notion of an ad-free bible took me by surprise a little, but that’s the direction that the majority of bible apps seem to be taking. When I was …
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treasure
Matthew 6:21 ὅπου γάρ ἐστιν ὁ θησαυρός σου, ἐκεῖ ἔσται καὶ ἡ καρδία σου. For where your treasure is, there will be your heart. I’ve been trying to do my regular bible readings in the gospels, and in Greek this year. Partly to improve / not lose my ability to read Greek, and partly to …
How to do (good) coffee at church
Nathan brings his usual thoroughness to the topic of how to do (good) coffee at church.