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Today I’m sharing a few tips for looking good on camera.  These come from Julie Hagen who has done amazing work at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church in Washington, DC.  Julie has a background in broadcasting and is now a seminarian.  These tips are for free; you’re welcome.

Rev. Tim Kobler is the United Methodist campus minister at the University of Michigan.  Without question, this has been a demanding time in which students’ needs for spiritual guidance changes on a daily basis.  Tim speaks about the challenges of an already challenging form of ministry in this most interesting discussion.

You might have missed our inaugural episode, so I’m reposting today.  I interview Tom Cox, interim pastor of Hot Metal Bridge, a faith community in downtown Pittsburgh.  Tom describes this amazing ministry and its move toward holding worship services via Zoom.  Creativity and flexibility are the keys.

Rev. Isaac Collins began working at his current congregation in June. He’s one of several pastors I’ve interviewed here that faced the challenge of establishing themselves in the midst of the pandemic.  Isaac was part of a community in Charlottesville, VA, that was part of his formation in a prophetic ministry that he sees as…

Some of these interviews are so good they bear repeating; this one definitely falls in that category.  Rev. Dr. Laurence Hesser is the pastor of a mid-sized United Methodist church in rural Tennessee.  His own quest to understand his congregation’s needs led him to quickly learn how to make quality video, and has seen his…

Granted, I’m a man of a certain age.  My people gravitate toward Facebook for our social media time.  But other generations are on different platforms: Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok… and the list goes on.  What would it look like if church leaders entered TikTok for the purposes of spreading the Gospel, or at least dispelling…