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Brad Abare's Posts:
Haiti, Robertson, Deal With the Devil
Church Marketing Sucks is no stranger when it comes to covering conversations about stupid things Christians say. From Sponge Bob and gay tolerance to suggesting the U.S. assassinate Hugo Chavez, ...
Communication You Can Believe In
If you’re like me, it’s often easy to be more focused on communicating the hope of what’s next than it is to heed the need for accurate communication about what’s ...
Familiar Story
The Covent Garden district in London traces its roots back to Roman times. For most of its history, Covent Garden has been a cultural center including shopping, dining and the ...
Vision Correction
On August 30, 2009, 79-year-old Jud McKinney was driving a white pickup truck along a rural road in Winterset, Iowa. Riding a bike on the same road was 54-year-old Mark ...
Donald Miller’s Million Miles
I think Donald Miller has finally written a book to compete with the attention from his last hit, Blue Like Jazz. I realize he has written other books since, but ...
Values of the CFCC Community
This is a follow up to my post earlier this week about the purpose of the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). Communicating the values and purpose of CFCC are in ...
Purpose of the CFCC Community
As a follow up to my post last week about purpose, values, vision and mission, it seems appropriate to communicate the purpose and values of the Center for Church Communication ...
Purpose, Values, Vision & Mission
If you’re like me, whenever you hear words like “vision,” “values,” “purpose” and “mission,” your eyes start to glaze over. Then your ears start ringing with all of the vision/mission/purpose/values ...
Catholics Come Home: The Role of Denominations
It looks like the Catholic church is ramping up their “Catholics Come Home” campaign. The LA Times reported that the diocese of Sacramento is “preparing to air several thousand prime-time ...
Follow-Up to the Rick Warren/Spec Work Debate
On Thursday evening we posted an entry trying to address the issue of spec work through the current example of Rick Warren’s book cover design contest. In less than 24 ...
Abercrombie & Church
The September 14 print edition of Fortune magazine had an article (no link) by Beth Kowitt on how mall owners have been thinking “outside of the (big) box” when it ...
Another Word for ‘Church’?
My wife and I traveled to Hawaii a few weeks ago for a co-worker’s wedding. We stayed over an extra day and attended a church service in downtown Honolulu with ...
Your Slogan/Name Is Not A Strategy
It appears Radio Shack is attempting to rebrand itself as “The Shack.” They say it’s what their friends call them. Have you ever met a friend of Radio Shack? I ...
Story: Oct. 28-29 Near Chicago
Last week I received a very nice package from Ben Arment, the lead brain behind Story. It looks like Carlos Whittaker received a similar package–watch Los open it, he looks ...
