Posts from the Blog of an (un)Tamed Cynic
Over the weekend I had the privilege of organizing a panel discussion on social media and ministry at the Presbytery of Chicago’s LEAD event . Here is the description of our workshop: Ministry 2.0 How can tools like Facebook and Twitter be used for pastoral care, gospel witness, and relationship building? How must our paradigms [...]
Earlier this summer I took a great DMin class called The Gospel and Global Media Cultures. One of my favorite books from the course was Elizabeth Drescher’s Tweet If You ❤ Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation. What I especially appreciate is Drescher’s analysis of social media from a cultural perspective. She notes that [...]
Earlier this week it was reported that Facebook is thinking about lowering their minimum age so that kids under the age of 13 can join the social network, with parental supervision. Many people think this is a bad idea, and some have even suggested that the age requirement should be raised. As someone who works [...]
Okay, so this four years old now, but I’ve never seen it before. (Even in a media saturated world, you can’t see everything, right?) We watched it this evening in my DMin class on The Gospel and Global Media Cultures. It’s almost an hour long, but totally worth watching. Not only will this help you [...]
I’m back at McCormick Theological Seminary this week for another elective course in my Doctor of Ministry program. This week it is a fascinating class called The Gospel and Global Media Cultures, taught by Mary Hess from Luther Seminary. Essentially, it is a course about the intersection of ministry, social media, and digital culture. Here [...]
