Archive for April, 2006
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Sunday, April 30th, 2006This is an archive file for possible future
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The explosion of new media doesn’t necessarily
mean that the mainline should abandon traditional media. When I talked about
this with Jeffrey Buntin, Sr. of the Buntin Group, a large ad agency in
Nashville, he made an insightful observation. Perhaps it’s not traditional
media that is dead, but the <i>traditional [...]
That Nasty Word, Marketing
Sunday, April 30th, 2006The use of the word “marketing” continues to
be unacceptable to many in the mainline because they identify it with
manipulation and commercial exploitation.
(I am posting a series of thoughts on the disengagement of the mainline denominations from mainstream media over the past thirty years that results in the absence of the mainline voice from the public [...]
Open Hearts, Open Doors, A Church for Others
Saturday, April 29th, 2006The promise of Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open
Doors takes on new meaning when it’s lived out by a church in a former communist
country that lives the promise by becoming a church for others–a church in
service to the poor, the imprisoned, the ill and the abandoned.
This is written from Varna, Bulgaria where I’m attending a meeting [...]
It’s My Turf, Get Off Of It!
Saturday, April 29th, 2006Turf gets in the way of collaborative media
production. Turf protection is self-defeating.
(I am posting a series of thoughts on the disengagement of the mainline denominations from mainstream media over the past thirty years that results in the absence of the mainline voice from the public dialogue. This is the tenth installment.)
My experience as [...]
Why The Mainline Can’t Rock And Roll
Thursday, April 27th, 2006The mainline is not able to produce media
because it is institutionally and systemically not organized to make creative
media.
(I am posting a series of thoughts on the disengagement of the mainline denominations from mainstream media over the past thirty years that results in the absence of the mainline voice from the public dialogue. This is [...]
They Warned Us, But We Didn’t Listen
Thursday, April 27th, 2006There were mainline leaders who cautioned
against withdrawing from the media, but they were not listened
to.
(I am posting a series of thoughts on the disengagement of the mainline denominations from mainstream media over the past thirty years that results in the absence of the mainline voice from the public dialogue. This is the eighth installment.)
There [...]
Burning Brightly and Flaming Out–The Once-Present Mainline
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006The mainline once burned brightly with media
efforts but then flamed out when funding did not sustain these
productions.
(I am posting a series of thoughts on the disengagement of the mainline denominations from mainstream media over the past thirty years that results in the absence of the mainline voice from the public dialogue. This is the [...]
Only the Lonely
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006Broadcast religion cannot offer the depth
and multidimensional experience of faith communities in local
congregations.
(I am posting a series of thoughts on the disengagement of the mainline denominations from mainstream media over the past thirty years that results in the absence of the mainline voice from the public dialogue. This is the sixth installment.)
As the society [...]
The Sounds of Silence
Monday, April 24th, 2006The mainline denominations’ lack of presence
in the multi-media world today results in the sounds of
silence.
(I am posting a series of thoughts on the disengagement of the mainline denominations from mainstream media over the past thirty years that results in the absence of the mainline voice from the public dialogue. This is the fifth installment.)
Characterizing [...]
Your Momma Don’t Dance and Your Daddy Don’t Rock and Roll
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006The reasons why mainline denominations don’t
produce compelling media.
There will be no more steel guitars and fiddles, if the people don?t know what they?re worth. It?s the last country tune beneath the last country moon for the last country people on earth. Tom T. Hall, Hallnote Music, BMI/Acuff-Rose Music
I was teaching a course on popular [...]
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