[Kid Inspiration]

From New York Times
EVERYONE knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona?
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Via Kidscreen Magazine
A new poll shows U.S. parents know how important digital media skills are for their children.
Three out of four parents surveyed agreed that knowing how to navigate various digital media outlets is as beneficial to kids as mastering traditional skills like reading, writing and math.
A full 67% of parents said they did [...]

Finally a reason for the decline of baptists
David Key, director of Baptist studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, attributes the declining numbers on Baptist parents having fewer children than in years past, and believes Baptist leaders haven’t been aggressive enough in attracting nonwhite members.
“It’s not just about parents not having enough [...]

Here are a few posts that I have ’starred’ in Google reader.
They either caught my eye, or my massive nerdy tendencies.
From various blogs all over this earth:
Creating a Healthy Volunteer Environment -Part 2
Yesterday we talked about what an unhealthy volunteer looks like. It’s not as easy as just firing all those who bring a spirit [...]

Cool.
American idol sing ‘Shout to the Lord’ in the finale of their ‘Idol gives back show’. Although removing Jesus from the song. But hey, still a great way to include evangelical USA.

WPvideo 1.10

Haven’t read this yet… but it’s on the reading list.
From Brian Mclaren’s blog, links to research from Dave Csinos about children in the Bible.
BTW reading Brians book at the moment Everything must change.

Following up from my Rant on Blogging, here is advice from Al Mohler, the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary:
Mohler emphasized the importance of taking “the new media seriously, not making it a bulletin board for isolated, disconnected, reckless ideas, snarky comments and anonymous diatribes, but rather, a place where seriously-minded Christians do [...]

There is a community developing of sorts amongst blogging pastors — which makes sense right? If you are writing a blog on a specific topic you are bound to attract like minded people, and in turn be attracted to like minded people.
I read a bunch of blogs from lead/senior pastors all over the world, guys [...]

I am a massive Nerd.
There is not much about the internets I don’t know.
So bcause of this bias I am hesitant to over hype the potential of the internet to engage kids… I just don’t want to pump resources into developing tools for ministering to kids if they won’t show much fruit.
But we are starting [...]

So Phillip Pullman is getting a bad rap at the moment, a lot of Christian blogs warning everyone that the Golden Compass movie, based on some of his books is leading children to atheism… which is his goal of course — being an Atheist, that would be obvious.
So I thought I would try to post [...]