The need to manage our e-mail has spurred a number of authors to write entire books on the subject. If books aren’t enough, e-mail management experts are available to offer further training through their seminar programs and consulting services. And…
Read MoreThe New Connectivity: How Internet Innovations Are Changing the Way We Do Church
It’s no longer news that the Internet has ushered in a digital revolution, reshaping everything from the business landscape to social relationships to personal habits. Our world today is profoundly new. And in these transformations, nothing is sacred. Just as…
Read MoreOur New Front Door: How Congregational Web Sites Communicate Church Vision
Jonathan, 28, believes Web sites function like a “front page” for organizations. He notes that his generation surfs the Internet continuously, both during the work day and during leisure hours, and that they would almost never visit a church or…
Read MoreCongregations and Technology
Choosing and Using Congregation Management Software Nancy Armstrong The Indianapolis Center for Congregations has worked closely with dozens of congregations in selecting computer software as well as hardware and has reviewed and compared more than fifty Congregational Management Software (CMS)…
Read MoreBring Technology to Congregations
With the approach of the new millennium, we are witness to two seemingly incompatible enthusiasms, on the one hand a widespread infatuation with technological advance and a confidence in the ultimate triumph of reason, on the other hand a resurgence…
Read MoreChanging the Rules of Engagement: Questioning How Technology Shapes Our Lives
It began when our children were around nine and six years old: Lent was the time when the TV would be turned off. Sundays would be a day of reprieve—after all, Sundays are in Lent and not of Lent. I…
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