Mobile Ministry Magazine

Wrapping up what has been mainly a light week here on the content side here at MMM is the Carnival of the Mobilists. This week its being hosted at the website London Calling.

There was at one point a person doing a blog carnival of christian tech websites, wonder if there are enough sites and interest to keep that going?

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Not everyone has a smarpthone; many people don't even want them. But it's really cool when companies make resources available for folks without smartphones that are powerful in their own right. Check it out (from a recent post at JKontheRun).

This is a first public alpha of the Mobipocket Reader for Java Phones. This version is developed for all Sony Ericsson Java Phones... If your phone is not a Sony Ericsson, you can try to send a book with the reader Desktop but you can read only the free books.

Learn more and download the alpha version of the Mobipocket Reader 6.0 for Java phones. Be warned. This software might crash or otherwise harm your device. It is not an official release, just a testing one. Use at your own risk.

See, now your RAZR toting friends don't have any reason to go without the Word, some devotional, or all of the above. Its attainable.

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These days, one doesn't have to find an old and crusty library in order to get the best in tools and resources to study the Bible. One can even argue that doing a full term at a seminary might not even be needed to gain some measure of usable understanding. That's the thing about technology these days, its really freed up the acquisiton of knowledge (not wisdom and understanding though - they need relationship, experience, and accountability to be usable with knowledge).

When it comes to Bible study resources, there are several ways to go about looking for something solid. Biblical Studies and Technological Tools has started a series of posts on the subject and the latest one gives some basic principles on how to go about searching for the right resources and tools. Here is a snippet:

...I am making the following assumptions about those who would be most interested in such tools:

- You are likely a lay person who does not know Greek or Hebrew (though you wouldn't mind at least understanding a bit of what is going on in the original Greek or Hebrew).

- You don't really have the time or the means to accumulate a large, scholarly library of resources. What you really want is accessible, reliable, and understandable information regarding basic questions that arise as you read the Bible.

- You may be willing to spend some money to get good resources, but FREE is good!
You are interested in physical (i.e., real books) AND / OR digital (i.e., software or online) resources...

Read the rest of this post at Biblical Studies and Technological Tools

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~ via NakedPastor

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Ok, I am probably the last person to want to say that we want to elevate the Christian experience over the truth of the word - as this is a recent marketing thing that pretty much bugs me (and a few others) - but I do want to highlight that that if done in concert with discipliship and accountability, speaking and relating our Christian experience can have some value.

Getting back to that experience thing in a more content-neutral fashion (I hope), I like to see how others are making connections with the Body and enabling the testimonies of God to go further and further than ever before.

There is one post over at digital.leadnet that speaks about a holographic pastor as a means of relating the Word. As much as that's very much affluent and something in the future, it does speak to where tech can go in terms of making the sharing of the Gosple something where boundaries don't have to be an issue.

Then again, we can keep things in a more relevant light and look at the recent Mojo experiement that Nokia is doing in South Africa. Similar to the Reuter's experiment, this is exploring the use of mobile technology to create content and do so in a means that works with the environment instead of above it. I really like that Nokia is doing this and like them, I think that being careful crafters of content in this day and age is something that is also worth teaching.

What I like about the Mojo project is that it gets students involved and teaches them how to tell stories. A lot of time, we want to relate to others about what it means to be a Christian, or even talk about some important social speaking points, but have gain little in the way of training. I see a solution like this as being beneficial towards helping people to see their identity in Christ as something that can empower their communities. Pretty neat, and not so far into the future at all right?

Labels: communication, community, N95, Nokia, virtual