by Michael Buckingham
The media, unbelievers…you name it…they are making fun of us. Just watch a reality show, of all the christians they could put on to represent that segment they find the most outrageous (and out of touch) person they can find.
Stop…
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Tags: broadcasting, critique, television
by Michael Buckingham
Yep…grow a few creatives, put ‘em in the press…presto! Creative juice. Good for a laugh…and as funny as it is, sometimes I run across people that must think this is how it is done. Just the other day I had…
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Tags: creativity, development, education
by Michael Buckingham
If you were like me and not able to make it out to Willow Creeks Leadership Summit this year, Kem has her 10 take-aways from the conference. Here are some highlights that caught my attention:
2. God, please rescue me from all…
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Tags: conference, leadership, willowcreek
by Michael Buckingham
Looks like Seth is jumping into the church arena a bit…good to see him here.
Tony did a Q&A with him as part of the promo for Catalyst and to talk about Seth’s “new” Triibes.com. I put “new” in quotation marks because…
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Tags: communication, community, design, godin
by Michael Buckingham
I am so glad that the folks at Alltop have added a church category aside from religion…some great stuff on there that I’ve been following and some new stuff to start watching. In case you’re not familiar with alltop it’s a site…
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Tags: news, research
by Michael Buckingham
Granger is running a new series with the title “Change We Can Believe In” and it’s spurred an interesting post in the Church Marketing Lab.
As most of you know, I’m a pretty big fan of originality and don’t put a…
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Tags: lab, politics, pop culture
by Michael Buckingham
This video is SO funny…until it happens to you. Pastors, please lend me your ear. Be a pastor, be a leader…and realize that part of being a leader is letting those you have put in place use the ability God…
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Tags: creativity, direction, leadership, meetings
by Michael Buckingham
I wrote a reply to a great post at Phil’s blog and realized I needed to share it here as well.
In the city I live we once had a great restaurant downtown that was known for great food and the perfect…
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Tags: branding, personality, uniqueness
by Michael Buckingham
I’m looking forward to ministryCOM 08 this year I will once again lead the Church Marketing Lab LIVE and will also do a session on Sermon Branding.
If you haven’t registered, what are you waiting for? If you register by the end of the…
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Tags: conference, speaking, tour
by Michael Buckingham
This is great…even if Comic Sans saves the day (which never happens)
*This video wasn’t long enough, so we made it double-spaced.
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Tags: fonts, typography