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Find, Write, and Rearrange Church Music with Ease

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NPR’s All Things Considered reported yesterday on an interesting web-app that allows churches to write or rearrange hymns and easily distribute new music. It’s called SongMap and is available through LifeWay Worship. NPR explains:
The Southern Baptist Convention has introduced a new Web-based application called SongMap, which allows music ministers to rearrange hymns and [...]

Google Will Archive Your Sermons (and Papers)

Google has issued a call for religious writings, including sermons, papers, pamphlets, etc. From their site:
Share your sermons, essays and other religious writing with Google users worldwide by uploading them for free to Google Base.
Google Base is a place where you can submit information about all sorts of interesting items you want to showcase or [...]

Real Time Twitter Chatter and its Implications

A variety of applications (like TweetDeck) can monitor twitter chatter based on keywords and other filters. Imagine if you were monitoring this data during a certain important time period. You could put your finger on exactly what people were interested in at a certain place and time, and the difference between interests at different places. [...]

The Church and Technology

While I am (quite obviously) a big advocate of the church putting technology to good use, it is also important to be careful and purposeful about such adoption. To that end, Justin Taylor lists Five Things the Church Needs to Know About Technological Change.

Mark Driscoll on Silence

I love all my gadgets and widgets, my beeps and bops and all the many tools I use to make sure I’m always connected all the time. But there is a danger—all these technological tools tend to feed my idolatry. From Mark Driscoll:
As I drifted off to sleep, it dawned on me that I had [...]

Zondervan Acquires “The City”

Mars Hill Church developed “The City,” a Facebook-like Web site, in order to create a “Real, not virtual, community, for Jesus’ fame.” Zondervan has recently acquired this software system.
MarketWatch reports:
Developed over the past two years by Mars Hill pastor of technology, Zack Hubert, who spent eight years in management at Amazon.com, The City was created [...]

Web 2.0 for the “Local” Church

The good folks down at Read Write Web are doing a series of articles about religious groups and web technology. Their most recent article follows the activities of LifeChurch, a megachurch in Edmond Oklahoma that has launched a series of web-based applications bundled together on a social site called LifeChurch.tv.
From the Pastor, Bobby Gruenewald:
We’re doing [...]

Spreading Bad Reports

Tim Keller and David Powlison offer some biblical reflections on what we should do when we hear negative criticism about an individual. Justin Taylor indicates that such biblical reflection is particularly important for bloggers.