Daniel Haas

Tag: Facebook

  • Extravagance UCC needs to learn from history

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    As long as it is “on the internet” it must be cool, right? That’s why the United Church of Christ wants to start an online congregation by the name of Extravagance UCC. I’m hip and online and all but I want to play devil’s advocate: It’s not gonna work, sorry. 1.5 years ago a bunch…

  • Not a Facebook Church

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    Bruce Reyes-Chow came out with an intriguing vision on February 28th: “What if a church decided that the discipline of following Christ and building genuine Christian community could be lived out without everyone having to actually be in one place at one time? What if a church unapologetically leveraged online tools to be a community…

  • Education Costs

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    A friend shared the following video on facebook: Oh, those crazy assumptions that education is free in Germany! IT IS NOT! The system works slightly differently: Americans take on debt to pay their individual tuition back. In Germany all taxpayers are your lender and you will pay them back through extremely high taxes: Let’s do…

  • Church Online?

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    Bruce Reyes-Chow and others are starting a new Presbyterian Church: “For a while now I have had an inkling that the “social media amplifies the local church” paradigm could be flipped upside-down resulting in a powerful way to be church.” he explains. I find that to be very inspiring. And I also filled out the…

  • Social Media Break evaluated

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    This past week I have been on a social media hiatus. I did not personally log onto twitter or facebook for seven days. Emotions: :-) It was not as hard. I did not feel any withdrawal symptoms, just the occasional inconvenience of not having people’s email or phone numbers handy without using facebook as my…