Learning from Pets.com Failure

Learning from Pets.com Failure

Bust: a startup that flames out, despite a strong and promising start.  In the year 2000, the Super Bowl featured a commercial that starred a sock puppet. That puppet was the mascot for Pets.com, the poster child of Dot Com busts. Pets.com did everything right –...
Cyborg Zombie Christians

Cyborg Zombie Christians

People spend more time online then at church. This may be the understatement of the century, but it’s important to understand why this shift occurred. It used to take a lot of work to be social. You had to join a bowling league, a bridge club, or you had to go...
Reformation > Distruption

Reformation > Distruption

Disruption: when a new technology significantly changes the way people live or do business, often challenging the status quo. It was in 1996 when then Vice President of Intel, Steven McGeady, claimed that the new tech boom was akin to the Reformation. He called it The...
The Glocal Church

The Glocal Church

Glocal: The idea that something is both global and local at the same time on the internet. “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” said Jesus in Acts 1:8. The ends of the earth have gotten a lot...
Bricked Without Bytes

Bricked Without Bytes

Bricked: When your device breaks down to the point you are left with a paperweight. Just six chapters into the Bible you can see God’s salvific work being accomplished through technology: Noah’s Arc. There are innumerable ways God could have saved Noah and his...