design
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Playing with Presentation
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3 min read
Sometimes I like to play with the look of this website. Often it is because I’ve gotten bored or I’ve seen something I like somewhere else. And sometimes it isn’t about my site, my vision, or my expectations. I sometimes get the desire to change things up because something in the world changes and I…
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Rethink Voting
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4 min read
Voting in the United States looks nothing like the open, efficient, and fair rhetoric we use to describe it. It’s time we changed that. I looked up the closest polling place on my phone. Then drove to it. The door was locked. I looked it up again. The location was right. It was clearly the…
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Simple, bold, NOW!
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6 min read
Several years ago, I made a nearly nightly trip to Barnes & Noble to read and write. I had discovered Seth Godin’s books Tribes and The Dip and I was starting another: Lynchpin. This was the book I was looking for. In a very literal and figurative way. It was the book. The book I…
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What is the right kind of website for your church?
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9 min read
With millions of websites out there, and a huge number of those being church and ministry websites, it is hard to figure out exactly what to do about your church’s website. I have one rule about church websites: Your church website must reflect who you are today and where you think you are heading tomorrow.…
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A new look
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4 min read
One of the commonly-held rules of blogging is not to change your site. Pick a theme and stick with it. Sorry. I can’t. It isn’t who I am. The furniture in my childhood home never stayed in one place for more than a few months at a time. One room or another was always being…