Good article here from O’Reilly: Top Ten Questions People Ask About Switching to Internet Telephones
Very informative and generally very accurate based on what I know from my experience. Also from my experience:

Stay away from Vonage. They’re terrible. Their marketing materials say transferring your local number to Vonage will take a minimum of […]

My favorite questions to ask people, especially people who I know are unplugged from church:
What’s going on with you spiritually? and
Tell me about your spiritual experiences.
Then I try to shut up and actively listen, or give some affirmation (uh huh…wow!…etc.), or ask a few questions to draw them out some more (why do you think […]

From The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required or contact me and I’ll email the article to you)
Every Sunday morning, Li Quan slips out of his dormitory alone while his roommates are still asleep. The campus is peaceful as he walks out of the university gates, crosses the street, and passes into a courtyard of […]

Church Executive Magazine - July 2005 - Lessons in branding:
If you want to be more effective in establishing your “brand” and reaching your community for Jesus, I submit to you that the marketplace has some of the best practical ideas. Why not learn from the experiences of Fortune 500 companies? There is a whole world […]

I’ve got a new guy working for me; he drives this, while I drive something like this. But I’ve got this and this and this and this and one of these.
UPDATE: I should have probably ended this entry with a statement to the effect of, “And I wouldn’t have it any other way”, to […]

RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, the award-winning newsmagazine program hosted by Bob Abernethy and produced by Thirteen/WNET, will present a special series on a new movement in Protestant Christianity — “The Emerging Church” — to be included in programs distributed Friday July 8 and July 15 to PBS stations nationwide at 5 p.m. ET (check local […]

I’ve been familiar with Taylor Mali’s work for a while - I think my first exposure to his work was “What Teachers Make” (text | streaming audio | MP3), which I highly recommend. Today I was pointed to another Mali masterpiece, Totally Like Whatever, referenced by Chris Seay in his talk at the 2005 […]