My mate Stewart is working on his dissertation.
He’s been working on it long enough that I may never want to go back and get my Masters degree ;-).
And in his dissertation he’s writing about the institutional church.
Continue reading Is the institutional church in decline?
Marketing guru Seth Godin gave an interview to StreamingFaith.com. They naturally talked church and social media/marketing ::
Faith matters. A lot. Religion often gets in the way of faith. Religion, the scolding, rules-based part of religion, the part used as a lever in life or politics to insist that people follow a certain person or a certain idea… that’s not spreading so fast online.
But faith, faith is the salve we’ve always wanted and still want. Barack Obama offers a lot of people a different kind of faith, and we can see how it resonates. People want to believe, they want to be surrounded by people who believe and they want to feel good about it. What an opportunity.
(HT @stewartcutler – btw you can hear @stewartcutler and @headphonaught chat about advent on this week’s @sbpodcast)