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Archive for May 2007
Vote on the OSB Cover
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 6:01 PM by Jason Barker
Via a newsletter from Ancient Faith Radio, I learned that Thomas Nelson is giving people the opportunity to vote on the cover for the upcoming new Orthodox Study Bible (at this point scheduled to be released in February 2008).
Posted in Orthodox News
"The Ark" Song Info Fixed
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 1:19 PM by Jason Barker
Related to my post yesterday, The Ark has fixed the script problem that resulted in the song and artist information in their player page being stuck on "Abba Father" by Kerygma.
Ironically, when I first started The Ark today, I could not immediately tell that the problem had been fixed because the song playing at the time was "Abba Father!"
Posted in Online Resources
More About Listening to "The Ark" in OS X and Linux
Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 3:33 PM by Jason Barker
Shortly after The Ark launched, I wrote about listening to The Ark in OS X and Linux. The problem for OS X and Linux users is that, because The Ark embeds the Windows Media Player into a player page, it was difficult for OS X - and impossible for Linux - users to listen to The Ark. OS X users can install Flip4Mac to play the media stream in QuickTime (which then embeds into the page in place of WMP), but this still left Linux users out in the cold. In my previous post on the subject I gave a direct URL to what at that time was the 128k stream of The Ark.
I noticed yesterday that the artist and song information in the player page were not updating - the list seems to be stuck on "Abba Father" by Kerygma. While looking at the source code for the player page to see if I could locate a problem (I couldn't), I noticed that the 128k stream to which the player page links has changed again to:
http://63.247.194.178:7475/SAM_WMA_3A-128 (the 32k stream is at http://63.247.194.178:7475/SAM_WMA_3A)
These new streams contain an expanded playlist, including the new shows and segments I mentioned yesterday.
If you are using Windows, or use Flip4Mac to stream Windows Media files through QuickTime, I encourage you listen to The Ark using the OCN's player page for the station. If, however, you cannot get Flip4Mac to work on your Mac (some people have experienced difficulty with the program, and even I have trouble with it in Camino, where it plays files without showing the QuickTime interface), or you are using Linux, pasting one of the above URLs into your media player will enable you to listen to contemporary Orthodox music radio.
Edited on: Monday, May 28, 2007 3:53 PMPosted in Online Resources
New Programs on "The Ark"
Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 7:54 PM by Jason Barker
The Orthodox Christian Network has announced four new radio programs airing on The Ark: the "Featured Artist's Block" with Jimmy Santis, "Theologically Thinking" with Fr. Stanley Harakas, "The Jesus Story" with Fr. Antony Gabriel, and "Special Moments" with Archbishop DMITRI of the Orthodox Church in America.
Edited on: Sunday, May 27, 2007 7:54 PMPosted in Online Resources, Orthodox News
Creating a Multimedia Application
Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 11:01 PM by Jason Barker
It is a tremendous blessing to be able to create multimedia Bible studies for Orthodox youth. I am always amazed that I have the opportunity to not only provide resources that can assist in the spiritual growth of young people (which of course is of the highest importance), but also that I have available the technological resources that I - someone who has no training, and all but no ability, in programming - need to be able to create works that when I was a teen I never could have imagined being able to create, and to make them easily available to people around the globe. If you feel led to create multimedia resources for your church or community, I strongly encourage you to give it a try; there is a tremendous need
It is best, of course, if you are able to use some of the standard professional applications for creating multimedia applications: Adobe Director and/or Flash, as well as PhotoShop for editing images and InDesign or QuarkXPress for creating downloadable documents. However, if you are experimenting to see if you have the determination or ability to create such applications - or if you do not have the financial resources at this time to invest in such rather expensive software - there are a number of low-cost and free applications that will enable you to do a great deal of significant work.
For (relatively) low cost options for creating multimedia applications, I recommend the applications of Digital Workshop. For example, for $125 you can purchase a copy of Opus Presenter: I used an older version of Opus to create my first full multimedia application, What Can Orthodox Christianity Mean to Me? (you can download the web version - which does not have the audio and video of the CD version - here), and was amazed by how easy the program was to learn and use.
What, however, can you get for free? Unfortunately, while there are no true equivalents to Director, Flash, or the Opus programs, there are nonetheless some free and open source applications that will at least allow you to experiment with multimedia development.
Perhaps the most full-featured and well-developed open source application is OpenLazlo, an application that creates and Flash and DHTML applications. It lacks WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which means that you cannot see on the screen what you are designing until you've compiled and exported the application, but it will allow you to create small rich media applications.
An application that will enable you to create applications closer to those I create - full publications containing text and images, etc. - is Sophie, an alpha program from the Institute for the Future of the Book. I've played with the program a little, and it is an easy - albeit, since it is an alpha version, somewhat buggy - way to create multimedia interactive texts. One of the primary limitations on the program at this point is the fact that there is no player for publications created with Sophie: users must also install a copy of Sophie in order to view the publication.
There are much better options for open source applications for photo editing and desktop publishing. A very popular and highly regarded photo application for Windows is Paint.Net. A more full-featured, multi-platform image manipulation application is GIMP; I occasionally use Seashore - a simplified version of GIMP for OS X - when I need to quickly do a simple edit on a graphic and do not want to boot Windows to run my Windows version of PhotoShop. The most widely used open source desktop publishing application is Scribus.
Again, I strongly encourage anyone who is interested in creating Orthodox multimedia applications to give some of these a try. As I said, there are no real equivalents for Director and Flash (or even Opus), and anyone who engages in professional graphic work will eventually need to acquire standard applications like Photoshop, but these open source applications will enable you to start your own development without a substantial financial outlay.
Posted in Online Resources
Youth Director Position
Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 11:21 AM by Jason Barker
St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in San Francisco is looking for a youth director.
Posted in Orthodox News, Youth Department
Online Reading Patterns
Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 10:12 AM by Jason Barker
Editor & Publisher - a journal covering the newspaper industry - published an article about a significant study by the Poynter Institute: online readers finish news stories more often than print readers. According to the study, online readers read an average of 77% of the story, compared to 62% in broadsheets and 57% in tabloids. There is a significant difference, however, in the depth of reading between users of the two media:
The research also found that 75% of print readers are methodical in their reading, which means they start reading a page at a particular story and work their way through each story. Just 25% of print readers are scanners, who scan the entire page first, then choose a story to read.
Online, however, about half of readers are methodical, while the other half scan, the report found. The survey also revealed that large headlines and fewer, large photos attracted more eyes than smaller images in print. But online, readers were drawn more to navigation bars and teasers.
This study can be closely linked to research - also by the Poynter Institute - I mentioned here, which found that online readers tend to prefer news briefs to in-depth articles. When the findings from the two studies are linked together, we come to this conclusion: online readers tend to read more of an article than print readers, but they also strongly prefer to read very short articles.
I have written before that, despite current trends toward short publications, we need to provide longer Bible studies and commentaries that do justice to the biblical text. At the same time, there is a need to meet readers at their current level. I therefore have what we might consider to be a blend of materials in my Bible studies. The main commentary remains - by modern standards of publications for youth (and even for many adults) - a relatively long examination of the biblical text. Furthermore, the articles on Orthodoxy and life application - while shorter than the commentary - are usually at least two printed pages long. At the same time, however, instead of writing one or two longer background articles on people and places in the text, I now create short notes which appear in sidebar boxes (you can see this in the notes about Ss. Zacharias and Elizabeth in the study on Luke). And, for those who only want the highlights of the chapter, I provide the "Fast Track" and "Quick Trip" features in the studies that give links to only the biblical text, group study handout, and quiz.
These are attempts to meet the diverse reading patterns and needs of online readers.
Posted in Miscellaneous
Sickness
Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 at 12:52 PM by Jason Barker
Just a quick note to let you know that my wife is struggling with a very nasty cold, and therefore I am taking care of everything around the house - as well as frequently running out to make sure that Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble stock remain high - for the time being. I'm cramming in a litle work on Luke when possible, and will have chapter two up soon.
Posted in Jason Barker
Fr. Christopher Metropulos on Reading Scripture
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 4:12 PM by Jason Barker
I linked recently to an article written by Fr. Christopher Metropulos on studying to better understand the Orthodox Faith. Fr. Christopher - executive director of the Orthodox Christian Network and host of Come Receive the Light - has written an article dedicated entirely to studying Holy Scripture:
Reading and understanding the Holy Scriptures in the light and context of the wisdom preserved for you and your family in 20 centuries of Orthodox Christian teaching is literally a treasure house of spiritual medicine available to you today. So, how about taking the Bible off the shelf there at home and reading a bit of the Gospels to your family tonight before dinner. You just may light a fire of faith in the hearts of your children that will burn forever.
I encourage you to read the entire article.
Posted in Online Resources
"Hearts and Minds" Podcast
Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 5:58 PM by Jason Barker
I previously mentioned that Fr. John Oliver had an upcoming podcast, Hearts and Minds. The first episode is now online.
Posted in Online Resources
Colleges Use Student Blogs for Recruitment
Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 11:24 AM by Jason Barker
CNN recently posted a story on a development that has been noted among designers and marketers for some time (for example, see here): colleges using student blogs to recruit new students. The reason, as given by one dean of admissions:
"We found it a much freer, less constricting, far more believable way of letting prospective students glimpse what was going on on campus," said Seth Allen, dean of admissions at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
I wrote a number of months ago about issues of credibility: youth want information that they believe is not slanted by a need for institutional enhancement. Therefore, student blogs - where students give their opinion about student life, rather than simply repeat the talking points of the admissions office - are frequently seen as more credible sources of information than school brochures and talks from recruiting officers. There is some validity to this position. For example, to what do you ascribe greater honesty: a commercial from a marketer, or an independent review from a product user on a site like Amazon?
This same principle can be applied to religious publications: when discussing what it is like to live as an Orthodox Christian, non-Orthodox youth are more likely to see as objective the stories told in blogs and other venues by Orthodox youth than in articles written by me - a 37 year-old - for an official website of an Archdiocesan department.
This is not to impugn the work I do here - I've written before about the need for knowledge and experience when writing and teaching - but instead to note that teen writings can play an important role in outreach and evangelism; it would be very useful for outreach to teens to have Orthodox teens write about their life in the Church. Such a thing was once done in the Antiochian Archdiocese in the now-defunct Cross & Quill, and the explosive growth in using youth-created media for marketing and outreach demonstrates that Orthodox youth could have a significant impact on the world around them if they engaged in such activity.
What could your youth group create to reach their peers?
Posted in Miscellaneous
101 Fantastic Freebies
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 8:45 AM by Jason Barker
PC World has put online their May cover article: 101 Fantastic Freebies. The list is similar to an earlier cover story by PC Magazine about which I wrote several months ago.
As I've written before, free and open source software is an excellent way for parishes and individuals to obtain good software.
Posted in Online Resources
Free Skype Calls for Mother's Day
Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 2:06 PM by Jason Barker
Skype is giving free SkypeOut calls (giving you the ability to call landline phones using Skype) for Mother's Day.
Orthodox Family Life, a now-defunct journal, has several articles on Mother's Day.
Posted in Online Resources
Website Problem Fixed
Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 2:40 PM by Jason Barker
The problem with our website has been fixed - we are now hosting Orthodox Christian Bible Studies on a new server.
Posted in Miscellaneous
Luke Homepage Online
Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 6:39 PM by Jason Barker
The homepage for the Luke application is now online.
We are currently experiencing a problem with our site - specifically, I believe, with our domain registration: going to www.orthodoxyouth.org will take you to www.orthodoxyouth.net, where there is no real content. We are working on this problem. In the meantime, going to the subdirectories for our Bible studies - as well as the subdirectory for this blog - still works:
- Luke: www.orthodoxyouth.org/luke/
- Romans: www.orthodoxyouth.org/romans/
- Acts: www.orthodoxyouth.org/acts/
- Mark: www.orthodoxyouth.org/mark/
Posted in Bible Studies
Another Podcast
Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 12:11 PM by Jason Barker
I just noticed another podcast from Ancient Faith Radio that I had somehow missed: Close to Home by Molly Sabourin. Ms. Sabourin focuses on issues of family, faith, and community.
Posted in Online Resources
More Orthodox Podcasts from Ancient Faith Radio
Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 12:04 PM by Jason Barker
Ancient Faith Radio continues to expand its available podcasts.
Khouria Frederica Mathewes-Green has a new podcast, Frederica Here and Now. It appears that the podcast will consist of Frederica's observations about life and the world around her. The podcast currently has a promotional announcement.
The Illumined Heart has a new feature: Ask Fr. Thomas Hopko. In this feature, Fr. Thomas will answer pre-submitted questions about Orthodoxy and the Bible on the last Sunday of each month. You can submit your questions to illuminedheart@ancientfaithradio.com.
Finally, Fr. John Oliver, author of Touching Heaven: Discovering Orthodox Christianity on the Island of Valaam, has a new podcast, Hearts and Minds. There are currently no episodes of Fr. John's podcast online, but it will apparently consist of an Orthodox perspective on modern culture.
Posted in Online Resources, Orthodox News
Herod's Tomb
Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 10:06 AM by Jason Barker
An archaeologist announced earlier this week that he has found the tomb of Herod the Great. While the claim is currently unconfirmed, it is arousing a great deal of media attention. BeliefNet has published an amateur video by John Spalding of the excavation site.
This news may be of particular interest to individuals studying the Gospel according to St. Luke.
Posted in Miscellaneous
Dual-Booting
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 12:40 PM by Jason Barker
Related to my previous post, I should note that installing Ubuntu using one of the Windows installers will create a dual-boot system. This means that, after installing Ubuntu, your computer will ask you each time you turn it on whether you want to boot Windows or Ubuntu. You will go through the same process if you run a LiveCD.
When running Linux in a virtual machine, however, you start the virtualization application in Windows, and then tell the application to boot Linux.
Posted in Miscellaneous
Install Linux in Windows
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 12:33 PM by Jason Barker
I wrote earlier about the potential value for churches and ministries of running Linux on donated or bare-bones machines. In that post I also discussed some of the ways in which Linux can be run in a virtual machine on a Windows system, thereby enabling priests and church leaders to become familiar with one or more Linux distros before committing to an OS.
It is also possible to test different Linux distros using a LiveCD, which runs on a CD without needing to be installed on your computer. There are of course many limitations with using a LiveCD (such as the inability to upgrade components and applications), but it is a relatively painless way to gain some experience with Linux.
Yesterday, Lifehacker featured a new Windows-based installer for Ubuntu Linux called Wubi. Wubi - as well as Ubuntu's own Windows installer prototype - allows you to install several distros of Ubuntu using Windows (I know this works in XP, but not in Vista; I do not know how well it works with older versions of Windows). Instead of needing to create a separate partition for Linux, these installers simply install Ubuntu into its own file in Windows. This is a relatively easy way to run a full version of Linux without some of the difficulties of a typical installation.
I haven't tried either of these installers - running Edubuntu in Virtualbox on my PC works fine - but everything I've read about them sounds very promising.
Posted in Miscellaneous
"Study to Show Yourself Approved"
Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 11:39 AM by Jason Barker
Fr. Christopher Metropulos, the executive director of the Orthodox Christian Network and host of Come Receive the Light, has written a brief article encouraging Orthodox Christians to study and learn more about their faith. His paragraph on studying Holy Scripture is worth repeating here:
Second, we can become serious students of the Holy Scriptures. St. John Chrysostom said that one cannot be a good Christian and be ignorant of Holy Scriptures. There are some who may think that the Orthodox aren't very interested in studying the Bible, that Bible study is "too Protestant," but they'd be wrong. We Orthodox should be the ones at the forefront of knowledge about the Holy Scriptures. Attend the Bible studies at your church. Your priest will be glad (and, maybe even surprised) to see you! And if there isn't one, work with your priest to form one.
Edited on: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:55 PMPosted in Miscellaneous
Manufacturing "Authenticity"
Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 10:09 AM by Jason Barker
Fast company has an interesting article on corporate efforts to manufacture "authenticity." Of particular note is a section on the essentials of authenticity:
Authenticity constantly requires reinforcement, and it can come from a number of sources: craftsmanship, timeliness, relevance. But it is a brand's values--the emotional connection it makes--that truly define its realism. And there are four primary strands that draw out that connection.
- A sense of place. "Authenticity comes from a place we can connect with," says Steve McCallion, creative director of Ziba, a Portland, Oregon--based design consultancy. "A place with a story." The Champagne region of France, for instance, helps give Veuve Clicquot (OTC:LVMUY) special cachet. And yet, our notion of place does not need to be literal. On the contrary, it can sometimes prove considerably elastic. Häagen-Dazs, the Nordic-sounding ice cream, originated in that quaint Scandinavian village known as the Bronx, New York. The brand's name, concocted from two nonsensical words, is a perfect fake--so well chosen, and so evocative, that it resonates as real to folks who love the product
- A strong point of view. Authenticity also emerges from "people with a deep passion for what they are doing," says McCallion. So Martha Stewart is perceived to be authentic in large part because her ambitious recipes for Perfect White Cake and Chocolate-Strawberry Heart-Shaped Ice-Cream Sandwiches stand in the face of a world where food is mass-produced and preparation for the average dinner is measured by the number of minutes it takes to microwave the thing
- Serving a larger purpose. Consumers quite rightly believe, until they're shown otherwise, that every brand is governed by an ulterior motive: to sell something. But if a brand can convincingly argue that its profit-making is only a by-product of a larger purpose, authenticity sets in. "Just as there are purpose-driven lives," says Character's Hardison, "there are purpose-driven brands." (Think Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFMI) here, or even, in a way, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).) The counterpart is also true: "When a brand changes its story to better capture its customers' dollars, it's basically a poser," Hardison says, "and people sense that right away."
- Integrity. Authenticity comes to a brand that is what it says it is. In other words, "the story that the brand tells through its actions aligns with the story it tells through its communications," Hardison says. "Only then will customers sense that the brand's story is true." When McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) launched its "We love to see you smile" campaign in 2000, commentators like Advertising Age's Bob Garfield hooted in derision, arguing that filthy restrooms and grumpy counter clerks rendered the ads "preposterously false." A year later, published reports revealed that rude employees were costing Mickey D's millions of dollars in lost sales. And when bloggers exposed a flog (read: "fake blog") that masqueraded as a travel journal written by a couple who were compensated for their gushing posts about Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), the deception elicited a torrent of rebuke.
Pay special attention to this statement in the first bulleted point: "Our notion of place does not need to be literal. On the contrary, it can sometimes prove considerably elastic." In other words, you can establish so-called authenticity by creating the experience of a place that does not exist. This same approach to authenticity can be found in the other points: less important than true authenticity - which, of course, is seldom developed with mass profit in mind - is the perception of authenticity. This can be clearly seen in the examples of corporate efforts to achieve the appearance of authenticity.
This problem can be seen in many churches - and even religious education - where appearance trumps substance. Thus, churches attempt to recreate social settings they've seen in popular entertainment: coffee bars that look and "feel" like the ones in which close circles of friends congregate in any of a dozen TV shows, or even - to use my sister-in-law's church as an example - churches that make the main corridor through the church facility resemble a small-town main street, with vintage-looking lamposts and storefront facades for the nursery and classrooms (as well as the coffee house, movie theater and other features).
We can particularly see this problem when we look at religious education, as I did in an earlier post talking about the current phenomenon of Biblezines:
Interpreters and instructors must avoid the danger of trying to “fit” the biblical texts into adolescent interests. As an example of this danger, the Teen Devotional Bible describes the depiction in Genesis of the fracturing of human language at the Tower of Babel as “the result of a bunch of folks way back when who thought they were way too cool,” and similarly summarizes the Song of Songs as a dialogue between “Solomon and his love-muffin.” In another example, Revolve, a tabloid-styled Bible targeted to early adolescent girls, describes the role of Christ in the life of a Christian by comparing it to makeup: “You need a good, balanced foundation for the rest of your makeup, kinda how like Jesus is the strong foundation in our lives.” Rendering modern culture preeminent, and then adapting the biblical text to fit that culture - not to mention a consumer culture - ultimately trivializes the Bible; furthermore, many adolescents - particularly those who are not already active in the Evangelical Protestant circles which publish and promote these Bibles - will find such adaptations to be condescending and unsuccessful in meeting their needs.
I believe the last sentence summarizes the problem with these niche Bibles: they trivialize the Bible, and they are ultimately ineffective in their intended purpose. The most significant problem is that these niche study Bibles are in fact seldom truly study Bibles: they are simply the biblical text surrounded by - and too frequently, suffocated by - silly pop culture references and self-help snippets. These so-called study Bibles therefore fail, in the words of Phyllis Tickle in The New Yorker article, to "separate out the culturally transient and trashy from the eternal," and thus violate “something close to moral or spiritual barriers.”
Furthermore, even if these study Bibles were not too often simply culture-dictated fluff, they are often ineffective in their intended purpose: to repeat Mark Oppenheimer's claim from my thesis, non-Evangelical Protestants will find the Biblezines to be condescending and irrelevant. Since the stated purpose of the Biblezines is to attract individuals who do not currently read the Bible (see, for example, The New Yorker's description of the product proposal for Revolve), this is yet another significant failure of these products.
Churches should certainly provide social groups, and there is nothing inherently wrong with a cafe or other such resources somewhere in a church's larger facilities, but the problem is that too often churches that incorporate such things are more concerned with the appearance of authenticity and manufacturing "experiences" than they are with what Christianity has traditionally held to be authentic: relationship with God, and spiritually-beneficial relationships with the people in His Church. In an article published in The Word some time ago (I cannot remember the exact issue), Andrew Nova writes, "Since the Church is from God and is in God, then authenticity can surely be found within Her. We just need to be willing to see the wisdom within Her and be willing to accept Christianity in its most pure and unadulterated form. No matter what the topic is, we can look to the Church for an answer." Nova's statement highlights the driving concern behind my approach to the Bible studies I create. I - like all Orthodox Christians - believe that the authentic life is one lived in communion with God and His Church; the only reliable path for the authentic life is therefore one lived worshipping God and adhering to the life and teachings of His Church. Orthodox Christian Bible studies are therefore rooted in the teachings of the Church, and focus always on God and Holy Scripture. These studies further always direct users to become increasingly active in the life of the Body of Christ.
The possibilities opened up by multimedia are very important - I spend a great deal of time on this blog discussing these possibilities - but to focus on entertainment and a "cool design" would be inauthentic: the medium must never become the message. These Bible studies are authentic only in so much as they are truly Orthodox in their approach and content, and the impetus they provide to greater involvement in worship and the life of the Church.
Posted in Miscellaneous
Youth Worker Application is Complete
Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 7:05 PM by Jason Barker
Just a quick note to let you know that I've finally finished YouthWorker V3. If you are an Orthodox youth worker and are interested in this application, please contact Fr. Joseph Purpura.
I will get back to Luke in the next day or so.
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FInishing the Youth Worker DVD
Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 at 5:15 PM by Jason Barker
I'm working on the final additions to the Youth Worker DVD - it will go to the publisher next week. These last minute additions will enable users to do a number of things, such as install the program (instead of being forced to run it from the disc), and some of the other additions will be of particular use to officers in Teen SOYO.
I can assure you that these really are the last additions, and I'll be able to work full-time on Luke beginning next week.
Still, feel free to sing along with Shari Lewis and Lambchop:
"This is the project that never ends. Yes, it goes on and on my friends..."
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Two New Orthodox Resources
Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 11:00 AM by Jason Barker
Ancient Faith Radio has a new podcast, Pilgrims from Paradise with Matthew Gallatin (author of Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells).
Ancient Faith also has an interview with Ninos Oshaana, the founder of The Orthodox Circle, an Orthodox social networking site. I previously mentioned the need for Orthodox social networking for teens, and thus am interested in learning more about how The Orthodox Circle handles social networking.
Posted in Online Resources
Luke Chapter 1 is Online
Posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 6:54 AM by Jason Barker
The first chapter in our new Bible study on Luke is finally online. It is a Shockwave application, so you'll need the Shockwave player to use it.
I pulled an all-nighter finishing this and other elements that should be the final draft of the Youth Worker application, and I still have more work to do today, so I'll leave comment on the Luke application for another time.
The next task on Luke is to create the home and index web pages for the study, and then I'll be able to progress on chapter two.
Posted in Bible Studies