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.

Evangelism in a Digital Age
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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. Anyway, [...]

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

Another gem of a lecture from TED:

Posted via email from Tony Watkins

Television – not in front of the children?

youth from today from Stock Images

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 need to get [...]

Media are more than channels of information

In Media Unlimited, Todd Gitlin writes about the impact of media on our lives, and says that we live in something more than an information age:

The centrality of media is disguised, in part, by the prevalence of that assured, hard-edged phrase information society, or even more grandly, information age. Such terms are instant propaganda for [...]

To really see what’s going on in a movie, you need to look

Bob Davidson, ‘Eyes Wide Open‘, Christianity Today Movies, 14 April 2009

It’s good to see Christianity Today Movies publishing an article about getting beyond the surface level of film-viewing. CTMovies has some great reviewers, some of whom are online friends and very active in the Arts&Faith forum, but Bob Davidson’s article helps people to engage [...]