Media Messages Matter

This is the first part of the multiplex session on Media Messages Matter at the third Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, October 2010. The section on news and entertainment media as a global missiological challenge, with Margunn Dahle and myself, starts at around the 06:30 mark with Nick Pollard’s introduction, but watch Joseph Vijayam’s [...]

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Twenty Questions to Consider When Watching a Film

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These question are based on those in my book, Focus: The Art and Soul of Cinema. They are intended to help you organise your thinking as you watch a film. As well as helping you in your own thinking about movies, these questions also provide a useful framework for group [...]

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Play « Conspiracy of Freedom

I can’t remember who it was who posted this on Twitter a few days ago, but I’m glad they did. As the tweeter said, everyone with children should watch this:

 

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Facebook use around the world

Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation. Facebook500M

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Twelve questions to consider when watching the news

It’s very good to see Lars Dahle joining the blogosphere. Lars is Principal of Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication in Kristiansand, Norway, where I am now an adjunct lecturer. He’s heading up the media and technology stream for Cape Town 2010 (3rd Lausanne Congress). A couple of his early posts have focused on [...]

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Responding to Media

The final session with Southampton Deanery Chapter.

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Perspectives on Media

The second of three sessions at the Southampton Deanery Chapter study day:

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A more print-friendly version of the slides is here.

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Culture Now

Yesterday I led a study day on engaging with media culture for the Southampton Deanery Chapter. Here’s the first session:

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Evangelism in a Digital Age

The second of my two workshops at Good Book Company’s ‘Growing Young Disciples training day on youth and children’s work. The audio may be available on the GBC website at some point. You can download the pdf by clicking on the menu button in the bottom-left corner of the Slideshare player.

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Understanding teen culture

On Saturday (21 November 2009) I led two workshops at Good Book Company’s ‘Growing Young Disciples training day on youth and children’s work. The first was on Understanding Teen Culture. Forty minutes is a very short time to do anything other than scratch a tiny part of the vast surface which is youth culture. [...]

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Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

Another gem of a lecture from TED:

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Television – not in front of the children?

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Patrick Barkham (The Guardian, 14 October 2009) writes:

Get out of our living rooms. This country is in danger of becoming a politically controlled nation closer to communist China. That’s all very well if you have three hours to wash the dishes, but some of us [...]

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