There are good designers and then there are the hacks. The hacks, bless their heart are usually secretaries who are called to create the organisation’s newsletter and/or their website among other things. While I don’t like the dark theme of Mars Hill Church’s website, they continue to produce some quality designs. Here’s one of them:

Hats [...]

There has been a large blogosphere conversation going on about the state of emergent, specifically Emergent Village. The eruption of comments was started by one blog post which worried about the fizzling out of Emergent, focusing on specific figureheads as proof.
As far as a direct response, I’m not going to give anything of the sort. [...]

Going around the twitter-blogosphere recently has been the recognition that the vast majority of twitter accounts are simply those who have signed up, tweeted once, then abandoned the account. This isn’t a new phenomena, it actually happened in the blog world when blogs hit grandma-cool status a few years back.
My question, is twitter like a [...]

Recently I was able to listen to an interesting conversation between my parents & friends of theirs. The conversation centered on catching up with the current news of their respective churches.
You see this was all very normal seeing how they met each other years ago at a local church, my parents having attended there for [...]

Andrew Jones over at the Tall Skinny Kiwi as a great post on debt within the church, especially in regards to staff.
He does well to highlight the restrictions which debt cause.
The problem with this is that a lot of ministry graduates come out of seminary or university with a debt that some dear church or [...]