All posts tagged Internet
Driven from Distraction
by Michael Schutz “He Looks into a River. What He Sees Next Will Amaze You!!!” If the Greek myth of Narcissus were written today, chances are that would be the headline. You know the phenomenon, right? A big, inviting headline that’s just daring you to…
A Reformation Moment: Making the Most of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
by Mathew Block Sometime around the year 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the mechanical movable type printing press. And the world changed. Gutenberg’s press allowed book production on a scale never before seen in Europe. Before the printing press, books were produced slowly through the painstaking…
A long-distance relationship: Technology and far-flung parishes
by James Morgan To call the East District’s Ottawa Circuit big is an understatement. It includes not only every Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) parish in Ottawa, but also Timmins (Ontario) and all of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Previously, pastors in LCC’s…
Internet radio hopes to cure a blind spot
by James Morgan Lutherans in England plan to raise the profile of Lutheranism around the world with an Internet-based radio station. Lutheran Radio UK will launch in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2012. It is already running a test broadcast through its website in anticipation of…