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Promoting your Blessing of the Animals for the Feast of St. Francis

Promoting your Blessing of the Animals for the Feast of St. Francis

posted on Sep 22, 2017

In the hierarchy of important church days, we’ve got Easter. Christmas. And the Blessing of the Animals on the Feast of St. Francis. Ok. So theologically this celebration may not have the significance of the resurrection. Fair point. But a Bles...
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You are enough

You are enough

posted on Sep 7, 2017

A recent car commercial makes me want to hurl things at the TV. A thoughtful male voice asks How do you want to live?As a decent person?A fine human being?Always showing up? Getting the job done?As a good father? A good friend? Son?Is that it?O...
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Praying through the Storm

Praying through the Storm

posted on Aug 31, 2017

A few weeks back, I was working, and by “working” I mean I was scrolling through my Facebook feed. I scrolled right past a daily prayer graphic. You know the one – a scenic photo over which a fancy-font scripture verse is superimposed. Co...
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Online Spiritual Discernment: how to improve your Ministry Fair

Online Spiritual Discernment: how to improve your Ministry Fair

posted on Aug 24, 2017

It’s that time of year when churches host Ministry Fairs, those annual pitches for potential volunteers willing to jot their name, phone, and email address on a piece of paper and commit to serving in some church initiative. A few years ago, we...
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Digital Presence: bearing witness in the face of an uncertain world

Digital Presence: bearing witness in the face of an uncertain world

posted on Aug 17, 2017

This was not the blog post I planned to write. As sometimes happens in church-related communication, the relative importance and timeliness of the planned topic was superseded by another more significant development. Like so many across the co...
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Sharing Everyday Sacraments in the Digital Space: back-to-school

Sharing Everyday Sacraments in the Digital Space: back-to-school

posted on Aug 10, 2017

We tend to focus our digital efforts on broadcast communications – logistical details of service times and event dates, recordings of sermons, or digital storytelling with pictures of parishioners engaged in ministry. All are good and valid uses...
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Frogs and Fake Beards: video-making for creative exegesis

Frogs and Fake Beards: video-making for creative exegesis

posted on Aug 3, 2017

One of my favorite aspects of my work is showcasing great examples of digital ministry, lifting up work done at the parish level by people whose efforts don’t always receive widespread recognition. But when an accomplishment is all about the pr...
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Social Media: the next best thing to being there

Social Media: the next best thing to being there

posted on Jul 27, 2017

For every one of the 1,300 young people and adults who gathered in Oklahoma City for the Episcopal Youth Event (EYE), there were legions – like me! – stuck at home who wished we could be there. Fortunately, the energy and excitement of the ev...
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Stained-Glass Stories

Stained-Glass Stories

posted on Jul 13, 2017

Where do your church’s stories reside? It probably depends on the story. Scriptural stories? They live in the books in pews, pulpits, and libraries. They live in references in sermons and study groups. They live in the colored images of stained ...
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Sacred Mystery in Storytelling

Sacred Mystery in Storytelling

posted on Jul 5, 2017

I’m not sure how I stumbled across them on Facebook, but I absolutely love the free instructional videos made by Emil Pakarklis, who started the online iPhone Photography School. Fair warning: the website is a jumble of hyperbolic copy and fran...
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