John on June 19th, 2009

Last week we offered a class at church to teach people about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other web 2.0 giants.  People came & they learned a lot.  But I kept getting questioned by people why ‘the church’ should care about these things.  I had some witty remarks in person, but here on Faith Emergence, I [...]

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John on September 29th, 2008

Why isn’t everyone on Facebook?
Seriously?  Why doesn’t everyone who can use a computer have a Facebook profile?
It’s got a simple interface, clean design, and a killer concept:  ‘be friends with people’.  For people who are extroverts, Facebook becomes yet another tool to feed the addiction: you can chat live, post tons of pictures of all [...]

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John on September 26th, 2008

It’s been a crazy busy week, so I haven’t had much time to surf the web & bring you tons of the best stuff I’ve seen.
But maybe this week it’s about quality & not quantity.
I’ve seen a couple people on facebook do this, so I had to try it and it was way too much [...]

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What do you think?  Would Jesus have a Facebook page?  Would he twitter or blog? (since Twitter is a little newer, the basic premise is that it’s like microblogging, short little posts added throughout the day to answer the question, “what are you doing?” at the moment)
How digitally connected would Jesus be and how much of [...]

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