by Rhett Smith on November 10, 2009
[image by Zieak] Something I have been torn over for a while is the question of “How much of my daughter’s life do I share online?” With blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other services it’s more convenient than ever to post photos, share little blurbs about their day, and our reactions as parents to certain [...]
by Rhett Smith on April 3, 2009
Who is Dawn Nicole Baldwin? Dawn is the Founder and Lead Strategist of Aspire One , which is a firm that works with churches and nonprofits on their creative and strategic branding. You can read more about their approach and background. I had heard a lot about Dawn through various circles, and I think the [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 27, 2009
Who is Dawn Carter? I met Dawn online about a year and a half ago, and we soon found out that some students that I had in in the college ministry I pastored in Los Angeles, she had had in her youth group. That was our connecting point, and from there we have had the [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 25, 2009
A couple of things in the area of technology and some of the social media tools we use–caught my eye this week. And I wanted to share them with you because I think they are of great importance for us as we think through and wrestle with the implications of our technology and our theology. [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 20, 2009
Who Is Jason Taylor? I met Jason online of course (thank you Twitter), and I was impressed with his thoughts, and I appreciated the great comments he was leaving on my blog, and the encouragement he gave via Twitter. Jason has a varied work experience (mortgage industry, former church planter) and he currenlty lives in [...]
by Rhett Smith on October 2, 2008
Some of the commenters from my post yesterday got me thinking about some things that I just briefly want to comment on. I ended my post with two thoughts: Two things I think pastors, church leaders need to start wrestling with if they haven’t already: 1) Shift from geographical based ministry to online community/networking based. [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 20, 2008
Does that chart scare you? It scared me the first time I saw it. I was given a copy of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. And well, the book and method were hardly stress free for me, while others thrived on it. Many of you out there are disciples of David Allen [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 3, 2008
In class my adviser, Ryan Bolger, often tells a story about a pastor of a mega-church in Arizona. One day the pastor, while walking with his son across the campus of the church he built, said, “Son, this is all going to yours someday,” and his son took a step back and responded, “I don’t [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 2, 2008
I was going to post some quotes from Mark Driscoll that would give you a sense of some of the views that he holds that seem to promote a Christianity that is both sexist and violent. But it was too much work…there were way too many. Just do a search on my blog and you [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 8, 2008
I just want to acknowledge that there were and are many angles that I could have gone yesterday in my post Showing Skin at Church. I knew this going into the post, writing the post, and at the conclusion. And it was even more evident when I received lots of feedback from a lot of [...]