The call came right before dusk. “Adam, where are you? Wait, it doesn’t matter. There’s a rainbow outside. See if you can get it!” Rebecca Woods, news editor of DisciplesWorld called me on the first night of my hobby. That week, I was photographing the General Assembly for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Had […]
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It’s been a hard decision, but I’m abandoning a Google service. Back when it was just Picasa, I would export galleries to HTML and put them into my website. It was great. Picasa did the resizing, the flowing div tag creation — it was just great. Then it became even better. In summer 2005, Google […]
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Wow! The Society for Biblical Literature released a new text. While it may not seem big to most people, for biblical scholars, this may mark a critical point in the influence of technology on biblical studies as an academic discipline. To paint a picture, here’s how fast the field has advanced in the past 30 […]
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It’s hard not to have a love/hate relationship with my region’s website. I think every person who’s ever managed or designed a new version of it has this same love/hate relationship. It lacks a clear audience. Presumably, the website is a resource for people who are already leading or worshipping with Disciples of Christ congregations […]
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My denomination, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) almost treats our chalice as a sort of “flag pin.” It can be our visual litmus test. With so many congregations across the United States and Canada calling themselves “Christian Church,” we distinguish ourselves by our visual logo. (Note: my reading on our church’s history is that […]
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Fridays — often a minister’s day of rest. With my hybrid vocation, I often still work on Fridays. And yet, the days still keep some of their retrospective character. I can look back at my tasks for the week and give myself a sort of score card. Publicly, I can share some of my recent […]
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Windows programmers have it easy. Not only are their compiler tools more robust (and therefore, full of infinitely more options — for better or worse), but Windows programmers have some easy network-able source control tools. My team used to use Visual Source Safe, which came with Visual Studio. Even though it caused headaches and needed […]
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So I guest preached at a congregation this morning and when I finished, I found this note by my camera bag: While I’m against un-signed notes on principle, this one’s kind of funny. And it’s an instant classic if you look at the way it’s written on the prayer card. I’m thrilled someone was paying […]
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So it’s Tuesday night and Heidi’s at a church board/finance meeting; it’s a work night for both of us. While she’s crunching numbers with her volunteers, I’m procrastinating on some coding and graphic design. I have two major projects I’m working on for this week — the new UpperMidwestCC website and some hosted sites for […]
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Last week I was lucky enough to join 40 friends from the Disciples Youth Ministry Network on a retreat at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, AZ. Our keynote speaker was Mark DeVries, a hilarious presenter hailing from Texas by way of Nashville. He’s also the founder of Youth Ministry Architects and he tailored his […]
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