Articles for tag: Text Messaging

February 8, 2017

Christian Standard

Lost in Translation

By Jim Tune I wrote my message quickly and fired it off. Just seconds after clicking Send, it dawned on me with mortifying clarity that I had sent the text message to the wrong recipient. My message fortunately was not overly sensitive, rude, or confidential. Still, it left room for both misunderstanding and embarrassment. I”m guessing this experience is not unique to me. We”ve all been in a situation where someone reads a message intended for someone else that potentially could lead to misunderstanding and conflict. I was relieved when the unintended recipient responded graciously and with minimal offense. It

July 22, 2014

Mark A. Taylor

Checklist

By Mark A. Taylor My wife and I are two of the last professionals in America to use a paper calendar. It”s not that we”re opposed to digital devices. We gladly use our smartphones. I depend on Outlook to keep appointments at work, and, increasingly at home. We”re big text messagers and Facebook users. Evenings often find us at opposite ends of the kitchen table, hunched over our respective laptops. And we”ve even Skyped with a missionary friend overseas. But I organize my week around my lists, and I need those lists on a piece of paper I can keep on

May 19, 2012

Christian Standard

iChurch

By Kent E. Fillinger A recent Family Circus cartoon showed Dolly telling her mother, “Billy says he doesn”t hafta” go to church anymore “˜cause his phone has an app for that!” The reality is, Billy may be right! The top-ranked online search topic in 2011 was “iPhone,” beating out Casey Anthony, Kim Kardashian, and Katy Perry. Technologies like Facebook, Twitter, mobile websites, and smartphones are changing the way individuals live and organizations operate. Church growth consultant Barry Whitlow wrote, 70% of the people living in most American communities now choose not to get up and go to a church service

August 9, 2009

Christian Standard

A Revolution Is Coming Your Way

  by Jim Musser I recently visited with a 40-something Christian friend and mentioned that our campus ministry uses Facebook. Her blank expression told me she had no idea what Facebook was. Do you? What about MySpace? Twitter? YouTube? According to emarketer.com, these are some of the most popular Internet Web sites for college-age young people and they are sweeping the nation like wildfire. Unlike my friend, you probably have heard of these. But have you given much thought to the impact of the Internet on the mission of the church? From where I sit, on a college campus, I

April 29, 2007

Christian Standard

How to Talk to Your Children About the Virginia Tech Shootings

By Mary Manz Simon Standard Publishing offers help from Dr. Mary Manz Simon on ways parents can answer their children’s questions about the tragic events at Virginia Tech University The initial shock and disbelief of the Virginia Tech massacre has started to diminish.  Now, parents across the country are asking, “What do we tell the children?” This is an appropriate question.  “As the news reports unfolded on Monday, our tech-savvy kids text-messaged and e-mailed friends,” says Dr. Mary Manz Simon. “They”ve now heard replays of the chilling pop-pop-pop of gunfire as videophone images replayed on their bedroom computer. The immediacy of

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