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

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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News, Prophetic Voice, and Digital Media

Columnist Charley Honey of the Grand Rapids Press interviewed me about the role of news media in providing a prophetic voice for local communities. We had a discussion about this years ago and Charley thought it was timely to return to our conversation in the light of the challenges facing print newspapers and the rise [...]

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Religious Communication Scholarship

This is a brief audio recording of a panel presentation I made at the National Communication Association convention in Chicago on November 13, 2009. My comments address the state of “religious” (or “religion”) scholarship on communication and, conversely, the state of communication scholarship about religion. I also offer a “wish list” for future research about [...]

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Faith and Communication Technology

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is a slightly edited (to remove local references and to reduce the length) version of  a speech I gave at the “Emerging Technologies & Media Mythologies” conference held at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 5, 2009. I address three [...]

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Faith + Technology + Communication = Baseball

This video, shot on a baseball field, compares baseball to all organized human activities. In a sense, life is like a game. And games are like life (communicatively speaking).

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