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Has your church ever made a video? What was the purpose? Perhaps it was a welcome video, with a clergy person and parishioners extoling the warmth and vibrancy of the congregation. Perhaps it was a holiday video, emphasizing the joyful celebrati...

So you’re mid-way through Holy Week. This was the year you were going to do really rich descriptive explanations of your services and post them on your website like St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in New York City. Or maybe you were going to do...

One of the things I love about the digital space is the access to unfathomable amounts of content. Renaissance paintings? Creative liturgies? Sunday school crafts? Church camp songs? Just a Google search away. And for a movie buff? Between the my...

Last year, I wrote about the Washington D.C, Stations of the Cross installation that spanned the city, featuring art installations and monuments. This year, a similar experience is occurring in New York City. Although I often write about helping ...

Lent is an ancient season of reflection, introspection, and repentance. Even before unimaginable levels of connectivity and busyness invaded our lives, people of faith sought ways to keep a holy Lent by stepping back from full engagement in their ...

It's the week before Christmas. For church people – clergy, lay staff, ministry volunteers – this is a crazy busy week. Wonderful, but crazy busy. Can anyone blame a beleaguered Christian formation person for taking a quick break to mindlessly...

In the late fall of 2014, I responded to an online prayer initiative that changed my entire understanding of what digital ministry could be. The initiative was AdventWord – a daily invitation from the Brothers of the Society of St. John the Eva...

“What’s the best communications platform for my church?” It’s a question that comes up a lot in church communication discussions, but unfortunately there is no easy answer. And that answer further is complicated by the fact that one segme...

We’ve all been there. The interminable program planning meeting. Suggestions tossed out and shot down. The unanswerable over-riding question: what do people really want? How can we ever know? If we offer it, will they come? And then someone utt...

When I talk to formation folks about digital ministry, they immediately grasp the potential for using the digital space to connect with other formation people and with families. Many are librarians at heart – what they want is to connect seekers...