[READ FULL ARTICLE HERE] WHAT DOES A SPIRITUALLY DISCIPLINED ENGAGEMENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA LOOK LIKE? And, I must confess, I don’t know the answer. I’ve never seen it. And, as these thoughts are basically new to me today, I’ve neverRead more…
Transforming Technologies: Media and Mission Ministries
“This is NOREA RADIO broadcasting at Radio Luxembourg…” I still remember the real encouragement it was to me as a teenager in the late 70’s to listen to these Christian youth programmes on this popular radio channel. Not only didRead more…
Emerging Technologies and the Human Future
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Nigel Cameron and John Wyatt as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Ethics, Emerging Technologies and the Human Future.” Responses toRead more…
The Validity and Value of Christian Media Presence
“Why should an evangelical mission organization (such as Norwegian Lutheran Mission) own and operate a university college (such as Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication) with an emphasis on educating journalists and other media communicators?” I am constantly encountering thisRead more…
Eggsploitation
The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads—via college campus bulletin boards, social media, online classifieds—offering upRead more…
Is synthetic biology the original ‘syn’?
Heralded as having the potential of starting a new industrial revolution and criticised as overstating the potential benefits arising from it, the news that Dr. Craig Venter and his team have successfully developed the first living cell to be controlledRead more…
The Poor, Blind, Lame & Crippled
[READ FULL TEXT HERE] (EXCERPT:) “. . . And so I got to thinking, what if we really did go out and do that? What if we had specific church plants that were focused entirely on bringing in the disabled? .Read more…
Media Messages Matter: Christ, Truth and the Media
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Lars Dahle as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Media Messages Matter: On Global Technologies, Glocal* Trends and Gospel Truth”. Responses toRead more…
Hanging Out in the Electronic Agora
An article that I read recently gave six reasons why pastors should blog.[1] There is value in pastors keeping weblogs because blogging provides them opportunities i) to write, ii) to teach, iii) to recommend, iv) to interact, v) to developRead more…
Media Awareness: A Forgotten Dimension in Mission?
“I should have known something about Matrix before going out to South America as a missionary. It was difficult for me to relate meaningfully to the young people I worked among without knowing anything about films and popular culture.” IRead more…