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01.31.08Should the church support Anonymous’ action against Scientology?[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ] [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YrkchXCzY70] "Be very wary of the 10th of February. Anonymous invites you to join us in an act of solidarity...Join us in protest outside of Scientology centers world wide." If we think that cults like scientology are destructive then should the church support anything that could bring their downfall like the attacks of Anonymous. Yet are we then going against freedom, freedom to express faith and belief however crazy others may see it? If the church were to support actions like that of Anonymous or any other action against another faith/belief system then can the church complain when it itself is ...
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01.18.08Using YouTube to get a youth worker/minister[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQXq-WlKoTw] Interesting idea for getting a youth work/minister. Looks like a nice location to work! Some thoughts: What's using this ad say about: The church, the pastor (he have an appearance in the ad), The young people involved? Is it a shopping window job ad, nice place to live, nice young people (white, middle class ect). Is this a good thing? Is using the young people in this way a good thing? St. Andrew By-The-Sea United Methodist Church
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01.04.08Free Tools: enhance your youth work/ministry with VoicethreadTim Davies' Blog put me onto Voicethread.com. Its a website that captures the voices that surround shared media. Voicethread is enabling users to create “voicebooks” much the same way a blogger would create a post or a page on a social networking site. While a blog is mostly written, a voicebook gives the distinct benefit of recorded group conversation. Here is a great example of a voicebook. Another example of an "American Idol" voicebook. Here are some other possible uses of a voicebook: Youth groups can have brainstorming sessions about coming events. Churches/youth groups can use it for online teaching. MySpace users can ...
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12.20.07Discussion Starters: Brand Spanking A Short Animation on SchoolingThe idea stemmed from the concept of bad education, how children tend to be vocationally trained rather than imbued with the wonder of learning. This is a really interesting short animation about education, my friend who is a bit of a film buff set up a short film night at the Chagford Art Festival this summer, it was projected on the side of a van outside Blacks cafe...very cool. Brand Spanking was one of the shorts that he showed and it really made an impact on me. Synopsis The first day of a new term and the local school reopens with a ...
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12.20.07The WiFi Enabled Church: Rich and Poor ChurchesTallSkinnyKiwi has a really interesting post The WiFi Enabled Church, posts like this really get me thinking about so many possibilities for church and youth work/ministry, so many tools, so many possibilities. The problem being that having these tools is fine for churches and youth work/ministry communities that have the £'s, $'s, €'s. But what about churches in poor communities, can wifi be a realistic possibility when no one has the tec to connect and take advantage of the possibilities? Or maybe these churches should provide the tec so that their communities can access the church from ...
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12.20.07Youth Work/Ministry 3.0 and the ChurchMark Driscoll the pastor of Mars Hill Church Seattle, USA, has a really interesting post here on Church 3.0. I have put the post into a grid to see the different ‘grades’ of church side by side: CHURCH 1.0 CHURCH 2.0 CHURCH 3.0 In this version, the church is traditional and institutional… Today’s dominant church form is contemporary and seeker-sensitive… This incarnation of the church emerging and missional… The cultural context is modern. The cultural context is somewhere between modern and postmodern. The cultural context is postmodern and pluralistic. The ...
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