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Gutenberg and the Digital Revolution

Going Digital The rise of the Internet’s World Wide Web in the mid-1990s launched an unlikely hero into the media spotlight: Johann Gutenberg, the 15th-century inventor of movable printing type and technological forefather of the vernacular Bible. Reporters, Internet columnists and even some scholars began parading Gutenberg before the public as a kind of poster [...]

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Writing a Faithful Resume

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I recently co-wrote a book primarily for college students and college graduates on the topic of writing resumes and cover letters: How to Write Powerful College Student Resumes & Cover Letters. It’s receiving terrific reviews, for which my colleague, Bethany J. Kim, and I are very grateful. The book’s accompanying website includes excerpts and an [...]

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The Audacity of Prophetic Truth

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(Note: This essay is my foreword to a terrific book on media criticism: Robert H. Woods, Jr., and Paul D. Patton, Prophetically Incorrect: A Christian Introduction to Media Criticism (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2010).   The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) had a knack for irritating the state church. He claimed an unusual gift: namely, perceiving [...]

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Faith, Technology, and Worship

A conversation between the publisher of Worship Leader magazine, Chuck Fromm, and  Professor Quentin Schultze about the state of “Worship 2.0.” Fromm: What does a fully networked church look like? Schultze: Human beings are inherently multimedia creatures. So “networking” takes many forms across all media, including in-person, print, electronic, and digital media. A full network [...]

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Technology, Worship, and Community

Journalist and book author Mark Pinsky interviewed me for Orlando Magazine about the new phenomenon of online churches.  This is a fascinating topic partly because most religious traditions have emphasized the importance of in-person (or “incarnate”) community for full fellowship with other believers and, in the Hebrew and Christian traditions, for full fellowship (or communion) [...]

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Ethics in the Information Age

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Michael Lotti interviewed me for this fine article about the need to apply age-old ethics to the new social contexts created by digital communications technologies.  You can find out more online about Mr. Lotti at the publisher’s (Effect Magazine, LarsonAllen) website.  Kudos to LarsonAllen for addressing ethics on behalf of society. Ethics and the Information [...]

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