Those of us who know that Betamax was the superior format over rival VHS probably paused wistfully over the news that Sony will cease producing blank tapes for the ageing machines still in service early next year. Most of you will probably be hard pressed remembering when video stores had two different types of cassettes …

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Trigger Warning: There’s a fair chance you’ve been through something like these if you’re a pastor or church member. Thom Rainer harvests responses from a Twitter survey about church conflicts caused by silly things. The comment thread is providing more examples. If you read it and are thinking “These don’t sound so bad compared to …

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Trying to lead a local church to have less organised activities seems to be a constant struggle. Jared Wilson has an extended post which includes ten observations about the tendency to have lots going on. Here’s a few of them: 2. Over-programming creates an illusion of fruitfulness that may just be busyness. 4. Over-programming runs …

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