I’m three steps behind myself today.
Its Memorial Day in the USA and I wish all my friends a good day off.
If you have stopped by, why not leave comment about your experience with a church, professional christian organization or individual not responding to your email in the post below?
I think this is a widespread problem [...]

There is an ongoing debate out of the US regarding the influence of blogs on mainstream media. The Online Journalism Review has an article that may be of interest to US readers: To Their Surprise, Bloggers are a force for Change in Big Media.
A week ago I got an email I first thought was spam.
I [...]

Most of us have heard the expression media spin.
How would you define it?
Do you think you know when you have encountered it?
Is it conscious or unconscious on the part of the writer or the publication?
Does it affect you?
Yes.
media spin (is) a term often used interchangeably with bias. But… spin is actually subtler and more [...]

Flooding
Canadian and US troops were pulled off guard duty this week to help in the grim search for bodies after flooding at the Haitian and Dominican Republic border. The death toll is 2000 and could go higher.
The troops are working with international aid agencies to help survivors get supplies, medical treatment and fresh water. The [...]

The first 3D on line church out of the Ship of Fools site in the UK has had an interesting week.
I went over before the media blitz just about buried it, and had an ‘aha’ moment. It was an ‘of course’ sort of thing, why didn’t someone think of this before? I’ve been able to [...]

Eerdman’s has the cover of Real Live Preacher’s Book on line and the usual marketing blurb.

Marketing is quite the thing.
Within months of the weblog’s start, thousands of people were coming to read Atkinson’s latest, and RealLivePreacher.com is now one of the most-read blogs in the world.
Maybe, maybe not. That’s a bit hard to qualify.
That is [...]

Do you want to know who Real Live Preacher is and who took the red pill?
Both bloggers have books coming out soon and have revealed their identities. And both will continue to use their blog names.
Iphy’s book is being put out by Zondervan.
When Real Live Preacher got the book deal, he saw this post I [...]

Blogging is definitely a grass roots sort of medium.
The other day, as many of you know, I was contacted by a US professor, who had written between 25-30 big name religious websites in an attempt to get some respondents for his social psychology survey. Like most academics he has no budget or funding. The big [...]