May
16
They say a picture is worth 1000 words and Mary Williams, a wonderful campus and youth minister in Montana who I got to know at the Frank J. Lewis Institute seems to know that better than the rest of us. Her photo blog is AMAZING! She’s newly married and so, I stole this pic of …
Mar
04
The new pew study on Hyperconnected lives offers much for us to consider. I’ll be focusing on much of this over the next few weeks. But my thought is that distraction is one of the areas that the church has much to help young people with. This leads to a lack of commitment or even …
Feb
25
In this morning’s NY Times an interesting article on online memorials, often posted on Facebook is centered on how it provides further comfort in the grieving process for surviving family and friends. Here’s a snip from one man’s experience: When he found the photographs of his mother, it turns out, Mr. Cebar also found the …
Feb
23
Over on Facebook, my colleague Tony Rossi over at the Christophers blogged a piece about how Greg Plageman a longtime TV writer got into the business because he noticed his then-students were more influenced by “Saved by the Bell” then by him as their teacher. My first thought was …Saved by the Bell?? You’ve got …
Dec
16
Sarah Kay at TED: Just Amazing!
Dec
08
From Gizmodo on How Pope Benedict will light a Christmas “Tree” display. Benedict XVI will activate the illumination from his apartments in the Vatican Apostolic Palace. He will touch the screen of a Sony “Tablet” with an “Android” operating system which, via the Internet, will transmit the command to switch on the electric current to …
Oct
26
Summed up in a nice 2:00 video. Pastoral ministers who are baby boomers—pay attention. Now go post this on Facebook.
Oct
06
Steve Jobs lived each day to the hilt. When he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he got lucky and beat it, but only for a time. Nevertheless, it gave him great resolve in being reminded that his time on earth is limited. A great message that he shared with Stanford’s 2005 graduating class. Take …
Sep
06
Last year, for my 40th birthday, I took a trip with Big League Tours to four different baseball stadiums that I had not previously visited (Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Cincinnati) . I had a blast as you can see in this picture with the Pirate Parrot and if you’re a baseball fan, I’d highly recommend …
Jul
22
Meredith Gould Google +ed this to her circle which I’m proud to be included in yesterday:
Mike Hayes is an author, commentator, Campus Minister and Spiritual Director. He founded the award winning BustedHalo.com in 2001 and wrote the book Googling God with Paulist Press in 2007. Mike is currently a Campus Minister at The University at Buffalo where he serves on the staff of St Joseph University Church. He is available for speaking engagements, retreats and personal spiritual direction.Social Widgets powered by AB-WebLog.com.
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