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.

David Silverman is president of American Atheists. He co-hosts the TV show Atheist Viewpoint and is the author of Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World. Silverman resides in Piscataway, N.J.

Read a July 2, 2010, New York Times article about the growing influence of Atheism in the world of technology.

Read a March 28. 2013 article from Arizona State professor Pauline Cheong about the ways in which religious organizations use social and digital media.

Read a August 7, 2012 article from Christianity Today about the way certain religious groups use social media.

Read a March 9, 2013 article about the prevalence of religious figures on Twitter.

Jeremiah Owyang is an industry analyst at the Altimeter Group in Silicon Valley and a columnist for Forbes CMO Network. He has blogged about social network statistics and can discuss how to interpret them.