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		<title>The Church in a Virtual Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be speaking at the The Church in a Virtual Age: A Conference on Technology and Ministry at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas this Sunday and Monday. If you are interested in how the changes in culture might impact the church, come and stop by.
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		<title>Facebook as the new &#8220;Third Place&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book The Great Good Place, written almost twenty years ago, Ray Oldenburg wrote about the great &#8220;third place&#8221; in our lives &#8212; not home, not work, but a third place where we relax and socialize with others&#8211; barbershops, coffee houses, parks, etc. A place to have civil discourse with others in our locale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February, Facebook, and the Future of the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook just celebrated its 6th birthday last week. At that time, it announced it had 400 million users. It doubled its user base in the last year. In terms of sheer magntitude, this kind of change in social practice is unprecedented in human history. Facebook  is currently is growing at 21 million new users a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Church Planting Movement &#8212; In the PCUSA?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I hear of ambitious church planting strategies in the West, mainline denominations are not the first to come to mind (Fresh Expressions within the Anglican Church in the UK serving as the main exception). Happily, this week, I heard of another exception to the rule.
I had lunch with Jim Milley, Outreach and Equipping Pastor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How The iPad Will Impact The Church</title>
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Credit: USA Today
In one of the most anticipated announcements in tech-world memory, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPad yesterday. Some have called it a game changer, while others have looked at it as simply a large itouch. Still others have suggested we wait until iPad 2.0, where we will possibly get a camera, multitasking, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Vatican yesterday, the Pope announced the topic of his talk for World Communications Day on May 16, 2010. His talk, titled &#8220;The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in  a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word&#8221; will discuss the role of the Christian leader in social media. The specific focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Fast is Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi &#8212; Just a note to say the fast is over &#8212; I&#8217;m on sabbatical now and I&#8217;ll have some time to post current thoughts on all things church &#8211;
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		<title>An agenda from people of faith to the Obama Administration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social Justice, Compassion, Elimination of Torture, Reduction of Abortions
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		<link>http://www.ryanbolger.com/?p=190</link>
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		<title>Happy 90th Birthday, Billy Graham!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billy Graham, a peerless communicator and the public face of evangelicalism for over sixty years, turns 90 today. Happy Birthday, Billy! Here are two entertaining videos that reveal his sincere and engaged interaction with those of other traditions&#8230;in this case, Woody Allen. 
Here is the first&#8230;

Here is the second&#8230; 

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		<title>Would Jesus Vote?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend asked this in a previous post of mine. My answer? Well, Jesus didn’t live in a democracy, so that wasn’t a real option for him. I don’t think we can argue about voting in the abstract — is voting always a good thing or a bad thing? We need to ask what voting is [...]]]></description>
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