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This week on the podcast -- as promised -- we are talking about using #TBT to make your church social media a little more awesome. As mentioned in the podcast, here is a list of the ChurchMag Staff Writers' first blog post on ChurchMag: Eric Dye Jeremy Smith Phil Schneider Chris Wilson Blessing Mpofu ... Read More
Are you ready for VBS? What curriculum or theme are you using this year? Or did you let it die? We talk about VBS -- and a little tech this week. Blessing does have a super idea about church tech training, so be sure to listen for that. ... Read More
Blessing Mpofu delivers this week's topic and things get pretty real as we discuss how honest and raw churches, ministry leaders, and ourselves can be when sharing on social media. Is every Sunday service really that amazing? Where do we draw the line between being "real" and "marketing speak?" Or maybe social media requires an entirely different set of communication rules? We discuss this (and an entire bonus segment about peanut butter following) and more on this week's ChurchMag podcast! ... Read More
Blessing Mpofu joins us again! (This is fun.) Jeremy kicks things off talking about his new Pixel phone, which leads us to the conversation of warranties. Are they worth it? ... Read More
We are excited to finally have Blessing Mpofu on the podcast this week! Blessing has been blessing ChurchMag readers since 2015 and has more recently become a Senior Staff Writer with us. He joins us from South Africa and brings a rich experience in church leadership and digital media -- and most recently -- is doing great work with Alpha. Get to know Blessing a little more in this episode -- he's an amazing guy. ... Read More
This week on the podcast, we invite Nate Smoyer on the podcast for the second time -- you can catch him here previously. Nate is an amazing guy and we're sure you'll enjoy the various topics we explore on this episode like Why The Christian Post hates its readers, random trolling, and many other random topics. This is the ultimate mega mix tape! You can find Nate on Twitter, but you should really check out the Real Team Panda. ... Read More
This week on the podcast Eric, Jeremy, and Phil talk about some of their biggest church email pet peeves and talk about some of the great ways you can level up your church email with MailChimp. While we were not sponsored by MailChimp in any way, we certainly wouldn't mind if they emailed us -- [email protected] -- to get our mailing address to send us some of that sweet-sweet MailChimp swag... But even if they don't, we still wub them. ... Read More
When you see his face, you may very well recognize him. Is he on your church website? Maybe the latest Christian publication you read? Or perhaps your favorite blog? It's hard to say where you may have seen his face, but with his contribution to Creative Commons 0 photography with a Christian focus (see what we did there?), his photos are among the favorites of Unsplash users. ... Read More
Why is it that so much Christian media is -- lame? From movies to video games (not so much with music anymore), anything within the Christian marketing genre is stereotypically bad. There are some bright spots, sure, but what happened to creative works, by Christians, like Lord of the Rings? Why don't we have more "playable parables"? This week on the podcast we discuss this further, mostly with the focus on video games, as we think back to the ol' Wisdom Tree games and argue that there are ... Read More
This week has been full of headline news -- "Senate fails its Zuckerberg test", "'Um, uh, no': Zuckerberg not keen to reveal own personal info", and many others. One observation we've had is the struggle between generations. The speed at which technology has increased is staggering. The Technology Snowball is very real, and we see this fleshed out on Capitol Hill as questions ask of Mark Zuckerberg seem ridiculous at times, it's obvious that it's not just church tech that faces these struggles. ... Read More
