by Wil Ranney | Apr 6, 2020 | COVID-19, Innovation, Theology and Technology, Tools for Digital Ministry
Version 1.1 We’ve created an Online Communion Liturgy under the creative commons 3.0 license, meaning it’s free to use and adapt, with attribution. If you look through some of our traditional communion liturgies and try to imagine them playing out online,...
by Wil Ranney | Mar 25, 2020 | COVID-19, Innovation, Theology and Technology, Tools for Digital Ministry
Updated: 3/31/2020 at 10:20 am To all the churches that have taken your worship online at least once, WAY TO GO! Now that you’ve gotten that far, let’s look at how to make the experience even better for your participants. Many churches have been doing online worship...
by Tim Gossett | Jun 27, 2016 | Theology and Technology
This article was written by Wil Ranney and was originally published on URLoved.com. Disruption: when a new technology significantly changes the way people live or do business, often challenging the status quo. It was in 1996 when then Vice President of Intel, Steven...
by Tim Gossett | Jun 17, 2016 | Theology and Technology
Note: This post is by Wil Ranney and originally appeared on URLoved.com. Glocal: The idea that something is both global and local on the internet. “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,” Jesus said in Acts...
by Wil Ranney | Aug 20, 2015 | Innovation, Surveys, Theology and Technology
Aboundant wants to recognize the world’s best Digital Ministers, and we need your help to do so. Here’s the kind of person we are looking for: Clergy or laity. They don’t have to have a fancy prefix in their name like Pastor, Reverend, Doctor or...
by Tim Gossett | Jun 26, 2015 | Theology and Technology
Reflections on Church Technology and Communications Is Your Use of Technology Indigenous? The article below is a slightly revised version of a 3-part article series written for my own congregation’s newsletter. Screens are going to be installed soon in our...