Posts Tagged ‘online’
Arts & Culture
Pope Benedict XVI joins Twitter, plans mobile app
The Vatican unveiled Pope Benedict XVI's Twitter account on Monday (Dec. 3) as it announced a series of new initiatives aimed at raising the church's online profile.
News
For-profit Christian college wins free campus
A for-profit, Christian university in Arizona has won one of the education world’s most sought-after prizes: a free, historic, freshly renovated campus in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts.
News
Survey: most Americans keep faith private online
Meet the social media “nones.” A new survey finds that Americans, while mostly religious, generally do not use social media to supplement worship and mostly keep their faith private online.
Arts & Culture
Evangelical author Jonathan Merritt reveals he had homosexual encounter
Prominent evangelical author Jonathan Merritt has revealed in an online interview that he had an encounter with another man that “went beyond the bounds of friendship.”
Christian Living
Keeping the Faith: Real Social Networking
I have a couple thousand “friends” on Facebook, and a few days ago I cyber-smacked one of them over the head like an ugly son-in-law. He had made what I thought was a very snarky, malicious comment about one of my awe-inspiring...
News
Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc. lays off 50 employees
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is laying off 10 percent of its staff as it shifts resources to make online evangelism a priority. Some 50 people on the 500-member staff will lose their jobs between mid-March and this...
News
Catholic leaders launch online abuse education forum
Catholic leaders on Thursday (Feb. 9) launched an online distance-learning center to help educate church leaders on the prevention of child sex abuse. Unveiled on the final day of a “Towards Healing and Renewal” con...
Featured
Dead Sea Scrolls now available online
Internet users can now view online five of the Dead Sea Scrolls that for the past decades have been kept in a climate-controlled display at Jerusalem’sIsraelMuseum. The website, which was developed by the museum in partnership ...
Arts & Culture
Website of the Week: New Release Tuesday
Although New Release Tuesday (NRT) went online way back in August of 2002, many are still unaware of this free service. NRT continues to inform members of new releases each week…on Tuesdays. Becoming a member is simple as givin...
Arts & Culture
Starbucks CEO backs out of megachurch-sponsored summit at last minute
The CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, has ruffled some feathers because he backed out of a speaking engagement, in the last minute, at an event sponsored by a leading megachurch. Schultz was scheduled to speak last Friday at th...