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I regularly read Penelope Trunk, a career-advice columnist with the Boston Globe and author of the Brazen Careerist. While her subject matter is sometimes off the wall and her manner of delivery is even more so, I still find her informative, educational and applicable.
PT, as she’s often referred to by her blog followers, recently wrote [...]

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Our church is currently raising money for a $4 million building and renovation project. We’re doing this whether we can afford it or not. Well, sort of.
Nowadays, what congregation can afford to take on such a monumental expense? And what congregation operates on a relatively balanced budget? Certainly, not ours. Before starting the project, we [...]

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I’m a writer, not a preacher, so I can’t authorize what comes from the pulpit. But “Politics from the Church Newsletter” just doesn’t have the ring to it, and as we all know, it’s all in the headline.
No matter. Whether it’s from the pulpit or the newsletter, the same thought applies: Politics are a no-no.
As [...]

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No Shop Talk

As a web designer, I frequently peruse online forums to further my knowledge. And as one of the “older set” (meaning IT definitions were not the first words from my mouth), I sometimes have problems understanding the language.
Like, what is this?
“CSS is a stylesheet format for HTML, XHTML, and XML, including SVG and XUL, [...]

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Ah, the world demands so much from churches, eh?
You’ve published a website and are feeling somewhat caught up with modern technology. But wait, a website is now so…well, not quite passé, but let’s just say…expected. As a church, what could you now be doing to reach out with the message of Christ?
Blogging
Blogging is one [...]

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Have I mentioned we don’t read much? One of the greatest mistakes in church communication, especially in newsletters, is length. Verbose preaching. Wordiness. If the article is too long, the average reader won’t give it a glance.
And so we continue on with Church Newsletter 202, with a focus on maintaining the reader’s attention.
Writing for a [...]

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Outside Sunday bulletins, the church newsletter is perhaps the most common form of communication to your congregation. As much as churches vary from one another, so do the newsletters they publish. From electronic versions to traditional hard copies, the one common thread is that most of them aren’t getting read.
Let’s be real here.
We’re [...]

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Yes, this is yet another blog—one of the millions found online today. In today’s world of technology and short-lived attention spans, a blog is a great way of telling a story.
Jesus Christ offers the greatest story ever told—that of salvation. Yet, the manner in which we communicate this story is often problematic. Our visual communications [...]

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