Fellowship Church Website

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 11, 2006 in Church, General Technology | 8 comments

Ok, I just saw that Fellowship Church launched a new website. I’d love to get your opinion about it….

Question: If you weren’t a Christian, what does the site convey to you about our faith? About Jesus?

Church Technology Review

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 4, 2006 in Church, Church Technology, Ekklesia, General Technology, Monk Dev | 0 comments

A new website is launched: Church Technology Review is a website for churches to read reviews of church-focused technology (both specifically designed for churches and general companies) so ministry leaders can research solutions prior to selection.

Leadership Development: Drucker

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 27, 2006 in Church, Church Technology, Ekklesia, Monk Dev | 1 comment

I just got my first Drucker book in the mail from Amazon, The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management. This is a busy year in developing ministry leaders at our church so I’m trying to read a lot of resources on leadership to help equip our people.

Book Description: Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of the organization, the individual, and society, there is The Essential Drucker — an invaluable compilation of management essentials from the works of a management legend.

Containing twenty-six selections, The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.

Any other good suggestion on leadership books?

New Sheep & Goats Writer

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 25, 2006 in Church Technology, Sheep&Goats | 0 comments

As some have asked, I am no longer writing the Sheep & Goats column for the San Diego Reader. The new writer is Matthew Lickona, author of Swimming with Scapulars – True Confessions of a Young Catholic. You can see more of Lickona’s work at his blog, www.matthewlickona.com. If you want to know more, Lickona’s bio on his site begins, “Matthew Lickona was born in 1973, the second son of a developmental psychologist and a sometime caterer. Raised in Cortland, a city in upstate New York, he enjoyed a happy childhood (marred only slightly in adolescence by an alarming, curly mullet). Afterward, he attended Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California…”

Publisher-activist Jim Holman

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 17, 2006 in Church Technology, Culture, Sheep&Goats | 0 comments

This week’s World Magazine includes an article on my former boss (when I wrote a weekly column at the San Diego Reader), Roe v. Wade: Counterculture clash. The article details Holman’s activism for the pro-life movement while he publishes a “urban alternative” weekly.

A city councilman, who is also an ordained minister running on a morality platform, accepts campaign contributions from a strip-club owner.

2003: A rising-star mayor moonlights as a slumlord, pocketing millions while evicting impoverished tenants who complain.

2005: A prestigious hospital chain tests a synthetic blood substitute only on trauma victims too ill to consent in poor and minority neighborhoods.

Those are among the sidewalk-pounding investigative reports that appear in the archives of the San Diego Reader, the kind of urban alternative weekly found in free stacks in bohemian coffeehouses and other bastions of cool. You might expect the publisher of such tough expos?©s on religious hypocrisy and social injustice to be a card-carrying liberal, take his political cues from George Soros, or at least wear Birkenstocks to work.

Instead, Jim Holman is a bit of a square peg in the alternative-weekly universe, a devout Catholic of libertarian leanings with Horace Greeley newsman instincts coursing through a persona that seems two parts Renaissance man and one part Mr. Rogers.

Mr. Holman’s name became news in 2005 when he became the major financial backer of Proposition 73, a California ballot measure that would have required abortionists to notify parents before performing abortions on minor girls. Discreetly wealthy and passionately pro-life, Mr. Holman helped brainstorm the initiative and contributed $1.2 million to pay for signature gathering, media, and grassroots outreach. While the governor’s reform package weathered a brutal media storm, Prop 73 was unrelated to it and enjoyed winning poll numbers as late as November. But on Election Day, it failed, dragged down in Mr. Schwarzenegger’s political undertow.

Read Full Article: Roe v. Wade: Counterculture clash

New Technology Trends for 2006

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 17, 2006 in Church Technology, Ekklesia, General Technology | 1 comment

I’m a sucker for technology. I love every 2.0 and processor upgrade out there. If you’re like me here’s a couple resources:

- 15 Tech Concepts You’ll Need To Know In 2006
- Introducing XUL – The ‘Net’s Biggest Secret (just when you got tired of hearing about AJAX, get ready for a wave of XUL stuff.)

Try a live demo of a XUL application.