Read a June 17, 2011, Associated Baptist Press article about whether marriage is a dying institution.

Read a June 26, 2011, New York Times editorial on the state’s acceptance of gay marriage.

Read a July 3, 2011, essay in The New York Times about the increasing disparity in marriage patterns of the affluent and the poor.

See a July 28, 2011, post by The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan on Americans’ shifting attitudes about premarital and extramarital sex.

ChurchMedia.Net is a community for those working in religious electronic media. Participants on message boards discuss a host of topics, from which songs to broadcast for Easter to which microphones work best.

Technologies for Worship Magazine, based in Ontario, Canada, covers the industry, from AV systems and video production to music, media and ministry.

Craig Patchett is founder of The GodCast Network, which offers free MP3s of Christian and family-friendly audio content.

Anthony Coppedge is a Bedford, Texas, church media and communications consultant. Churches have been recording their sermons for years, he says, but now, with websites as electronic front doors and with easy access to MP3 files, church members and religious surfers alike are listening to and sharing sermons, giving the spoken word much wider circulation. Since […]

Martin Spriggs is a former pastor and chief technology officer for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, with 1,400 churches the third-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. His work includes helping synod churchesset up and use electronic media. Only about 45 of the churches offer podcasts or streaming audio and video right now, but many others are coming online […]