By Arlene Rains Graber The young man sat on the shore beside the Sea of Galilee. His eyes swept across the water. The area was lush with plants protected by the warm moist air, harbored within the bounds of the surrounding hills. Galilean sunrises were the envy of even the most unaware, and this […]
By Corey A. Hemmerich The type of connections Facebook offers are often shallow, instant, and vastly public. The lure of Facebook is undeniable. Users share pictures, videos, instant chats, public messages, private messages, even games—what more could you want? Well, maybe some actual communication. You know, the meaningful kind. The kind we, as […]
By Jason Karpf “We need to use social media.” And God’s people said, “Amen.” It’s easy to sermonize on a subject that has wide acceptance, and few can argue with the call to social media. The past decade has seen the emergence and rapid adoption of Web 2.0 and the broad range of […]
By Terrell Clemmons Facebook tapped into two universal human desires: to belong and to connect. The Facebook story began on a late October evening in 2003 when Harvard University sophomore Mark Zuckerberg sat down to his computer to have a little fun. By all accounts an ace programmer, Mark began writing a blog […]
By Sandy Quandt The next time you are tempted to tell your spouse, relative, or friend to “snap out of it” when you believe he’s a bit too moody or melancholy, stop a moment. The behaviors you notice may be more than a case of the blahs. He may be battling depression. Though some […]
