Read a Feb. 28, 2011, Religion News Service story about new approaches to marking Lent, including reducing greenhouse gases or abstaining from social networking sites like Facebook.

Steve Fuller is a sociology professor at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and the author of Science v. Religion?: Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. He has written about preparing for the Darwin bicentennial on the pro-intelligent-design blog Uncommon Descent. He calls on the ID community to further develop ideas about the nature of the […]

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 […]

Shane Hipps, a former advertising professional, thinks about the influence of new media on faith as the electronically sophisticated lead pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Glendale, Ariz. He wrote The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel and Church (Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006) and “The Gospel According to Electronic Culture: What if the medium really […]

Keith Augustine is executive director of the Internet Infidels, a nonprofit educational organization based in Colorado Springs, Colo., that is dedicated to defending and promoting a naturalistic worldview on the Internet.