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Hey Facebook: You Don’t Fact Check Satire (Hey Bible Readers: Don’t Do the Same Thing)

Recently, Facebook has been forced to admit that it made a mistake when it penalised the Babylon Bee for distributing fake news. A spoof article from the popular satirical Christian website was fact checked at Facebook’s request by David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes.com. When Mikkelson flagged it as containing false facts, the Babylon Bee … Read more…

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The Robo-Pastor Part 2

Guest author Nick Utber of Open Box Technology is convinced the latest technology will create Robo-Pastors. In Part 1 of our series on the Robo-Pastor I discussed what it looks like to include technology in the life of the ministry staff. It is evident that technology is advancing at a rate that significantly changes workplaces and what … Read more…

The Robo-Pastor Part 1

Guest author Nick Utber of Open Box Technology is convinced the latest technology will create Robo-Pastors. The 21st Century has well and truly arrived, and with it comes technology only previously seen in science fiction. We still have not seen artificial intelligence of the ilk of The Jetsons and 2001: A Space Odyssey, but surely these are not … Read more…

The Essential Website

Guest author Nick Utber of Open Box Technology on why programmers care about websites, and why churches should too.   You may have heard the adage, ‘Programmers are tools that convert pizza and coffee into code’. This oft repeated phrase captures the imagination with its humour and apparent truth. It also captures the sentiment of … Read more…

How to make a good church website (part 1)

I’m an Anglican minister, which means that technology and I have already gotten off on the wrong foot. Most of the churches I’ve been involved with have struggled to maintain any sort of functional website – you know, like one that tells you church service times which were accurate at any point in the last … Read more…