We just closed the door on the first Geeks and God conference and the planning has already started for the next conference. We are riding the wave of excitement and energy into planning the future of Geeks and God. The first planning meeting is this coming Friday!
I am looking for your help to make the next conference even more of a success than the first. If you have any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions regarding the next Geeks and God conference please comment on them here before Friday.
Earth Day is a great reminder of this grand creation that God gave us and how it has fallen because of us. G. K. Chesterton described it as living in a shipwreck. On this day I like to review some of the things each of us can do and have as part of our lives that will make us better stewards of his creation.
If you're trying to get your mind theologically around how we are supposed to be with regard to the environment a couple articles you might consider reading are "Just Another Animal?" and "A Green Faith".
So, here are 3 technology things we can do to better care for the environment. Continue Reading »
Some of the greatest destruction of our God given natural surroundings has been an expense in an effort to better our technology. With more electronics we've had a greater demand for electricity and part of that electricity generation is bad for the environment. With new gadgets comes with disposing of the old ones and dealing with how we dispose with the new ones. Many of our gadgets aren't recyclable or don't get recycled; filling large landfills with our waste. So, what is your church doing about it? Continue Reading »
This past weekend I say the Mason & Ramsey Comedy Expedition and laughed myself silly. This comedy show is a family friendly Christian based comedy show that I was actually able to laugh at. Continue Reading »
When we add more and more functionality and user interactivity into our websites legal concerns start to pop up. We want to make sure we can handle situations when a situation goes bad, that we can do the right thing on our sites, and that we are legally covered when we try to do good. This is especially true with churches where I have recently listened to some legal concerns from church leaders. Let's take a look at some common things we can do. Continue Reading »
The church isn't just called to go make disciples. The church is called to love others and the example Jesus and the Apostles set for us has us loving others by helping them in their pain and low places. FreeRice.com is a great example of technology that does that in a unique way.
The site works by having visitors play a word game with advertising on the pages. Every time a user gets an answer right 20 grains of rice are donated to the hungry. Continue Reading »
Technology is used in harmful ways every day. I'm not talking about the direct and obvious kinds of harm like chemical weapons development. I'm talking about the kinds of harm that are so subtle that we usually don't even notice they are happening or the affect they are having. Continue Reading »
Coming up with a design for a church website is no easy task. Even the best of designers can have trouble finding inspiration for a site. Something that helps inspire me is to look at other good designs. These designs can inspire me, can remind me of things I've forgotten, and can help me have that "ah ha" moment where a design comes to shape in my head. For someone who isn't a web developer looking over top sites looking for something to emulate seems to be a given. One place you can find such a list is on Church Relevances' Top 75 Church Websites List. While I wouldn't go so far as to call these the most innovative sites, they are fairly good looking sites that can provide some great inspiration.
Podcasting is hot these days. There are a lot of Christian podcasts to choose from. The problem I've found is that most of the ones I've come across are tough to listen to. Some are sermons that don't translate well to the Internet. Others are ones that either have bad audio quality or there is something about the style of the hosts that just doesn't work. Now that I'm involved in two podcasts and just finished listening to part of an episode of a really bad Christian podcast (I just couldn't finish it) I'm working through the question, what makes a good podcast. Here is my short list of what it takes. Continue Reading »
Desktop widgets are a great way to get free publicity. These days both Windows users and Mac uses can have widgets on their desktop. They are built into the Mac operating system and Windows Vista. For Windows XP users there is Yahoo! Widgets. These widgets can be fun, like the dancing hula girl on my desktop, or functional, like the weather widgets. In either case, these widgets are great free publicity. Continue Reading »
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