I took last Sunday off - my first Sunday off during the Coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. One of the many things I loved about being off on a Sunday was getting to worship from my living room - experiencing online worship from the other side of the camera. Between that experience and my work with … [Read more...]
How to Worship Online
For most of us, this is all so new and unusual. Worship online. Praying over Facebook Live and Zoom. Nothing in our faith life has quite prepared us for this moment. Our Pastors didn't teach us about this part of worship in our confirmation classes. So here are five tips for worshipping … [Read more...]
Online Metrics
In the brave new world where most of us are NOT worshiping in person and most of us ARE worshiping online, a new challenge is how we track attendance. Or, more broadly, what are the metrics for measuring our online worship? While this is a new question many parts of the church, there are others … [Read more...]
Being Safer Online (Part 2)
In this new world of zoombooming, facebook cloning, and email spoofing, digital security is as important as it has ever been. We should all do regular check-ups on our security and privacy settings online – and this is the perfect time to do it! The first post in this series looked at some things … [Read more...]