Stories tagged with: social media

• FIRST-PERSON: When God writes your Instagram handle

  by Candi Finch, posted Wednesday, June 28, 2017 (7 years ago)

  Candi Finch, whose Instagram handle includes "lover of bacon & used bookstores," ponders how someone's social media identity would read if drawn from God's regard for His children as recorded in Scripture. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Your social media feed

  by Brian Hobbs, posted Tuesday, April 25, 2017 (7 years ago)

  Check what you're doing on social media, Brian Hobbs advises. Facebook, Twitter and other social media are "simply extensions of our own personality and character," he writes. "If we pray, listen and love more, the world will notice the difference." Read More

• More churches expanding reach through social media

  by Roger Alford/Kentucky Today, posted Tuesday, February 28, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Roger Alford/Kentucky Today

  MONTICELLO, Ky. (BP)-- More than 5,000 people watched and listened to small-town pastor Mark Helton's sermons on smartphones, tablets and computer monitors over the past month.

  First Baptist Church in Monticello, Ky., has embraced the relatively inexpensive technology that has allowed congregations of all sizes to vastly increase their reaches. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Wisdom for when to stay quiet

  by Michael Kelley, posted Tuesday, November 01, 2016 (7 years ago)

  Michael Kelley notes that the Bible conveys wisdom "in keeping your mouth shut. Certainly not all the time, but certainly more than most of us do." A "quietness of speech," he notes, is "a part of growing as a disciple of Jesus." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Your God-given influence

  by Jessica Pigg, posted Wednesday, October 05, 2016 (7 years ago)

  Don't be consumed by measuring your influence, Jessica Pigg writes. "If your focus is always on the 'bigger and better' … chances are you will miss the blessings that occur in your normal everyday life. Serve, love and make much of God and the person standing right in front of you," she counsels. Read More

• New EC media policy addresses social media

  by Art Toalston, posted Wednesday, September 21, 2016 (8 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Executive Committee has voted to update its media policy, prompted by the proliferation and ease of use of social media.

  In addition to news media, the policy now encompasses any individuals in attendance at EC meetings, including Executive Committee members themselves. Read More

• Facebook's alleged anti-conservative bias debated

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, May 11, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist social media observers have expressed diverse reactions to allegations that Facebook "routinely suppressed" news of interest to conservative readers from the site's "trending" news section.

  National Religious Broadcasters President Jerry Johnson said Facebook "must change if they want our trust and participation in their platform." Meanwhile, social media expert Marty Duren of LifeWay Christian Resources and digital strategist Darrel Girardier of the Nashville-area Brentwood Baptist Church said Christians desiring to stay informed should not rely on Facebook as their sole news source. Read More

• Should we watch murders on social media?

  by Russell Moore, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Screen grab from WDBJ, Franklin County, Va.

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- I watched a video that I'm ashamed to say I viewed.

  No, it wasn't pornography -- at least not the kind of pornography we typically think of. The video was the live shooting of two television journalists as they were reporting in Virginia. At the time, I saw the post on Twitter, which noted "unexplained shooting noises."

  When I watched the clip, I assumed there was gunshots around them and that the journalist and her interviewee had ducked for cover. It wasn't until later that I learned that what I had seen was a cold-blooded murder streaming across my Twitter feed. Read More

• Planned Parenthood tops Twitter trends

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Christians took to social media en masse when news broke Tuesday (July 14) that Planned Parenthood allegedly sold baby parts gained through partial birth abortions.

  The hashtag #PlannedParenthood trended in the top three nationally July 14, social media expert Marty Duren said, with the online analytics site Topsy.com noting more than 57,000 tweets using the hashtag between Tuesday morning and midday Wednesday. That total does not include tweets on the same subject that did not employ the hashtag. Read More

• Social media: hashtag dos & don'ts for churches

  by Chris Martin & Marty Duren, posted Friday, April 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The hashtag (or # symbol) has become vital for online communication over the last few years. Church and ministry leaders can use it to better engage their target audience and bring a Christian perspective to popular topics on social media. Read More