SocialMedia.Church Podcast Archives

Rich Birch is the Operations Pastor at Liquid Church (New Jersey) and hosts the unSeminary podcast with stuff you wish they taught in seminary. Rich stops by the Social Media Church podcast for a conversation about how he uses social media personally, how Liquid Church uses social media, how they coordinate traditional media with social media, why … Continue reading Rich Birch of the unSeminary podcast: Episode 88

Brady Shearer of Pro Church Tools is a blogger, produces video announcements for churches, and has generously published 2 valuable church resources for free: Pro Church Toolkit and the Church Video Series. Brady joins the conversations here at Social Media Church and makes a case for why email still makes the biggest difference in a social media world. … Continue reading Brady Shearer of Pro Church Tools: Episode 87

Jason Caston is Internet Church Developer at The Potter’s House / T.D. Jakes Ministries and author of How to Get One Million Social Media Fans and The iChurch Method series with 2 volumes so far. On this episode of the Social Media Church, we wrestle to the ground about how anyone can possibly keep up with all the … Continue reading On Facebook Changes with Jason Caston: Episode 86

Haley Veturis is the Social Media Manager for Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, with a dozen more locations around Orange County and internationally around the world too. On this episode of the Social Media Church podcast, Haley shares about how social media has made such a difference in her life personally and the amazing God-story … Continue reading Haley Veturis of Saddleback Church: Episode 85

Dave Bourgeois is Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Crowell School of Business at Biola University and author of the book, Ministry in the Digital Age. On this episode of Social Media Church, we talk about how social media is changing the college campus, what is a post-website world, why there are so few resources for church … Continue reading Dave Bourgeois, Author of Ministry in the Digital Age: Episode 84

Kevin Hendricks is editorial director of ChurchMarketingSucks.com, a blog that has championed church communications for almost a decade. Church Marketing Sucks is a part of the Center for Church Communication, a nonprofit organization where courageous storytellers are welcome. On this episode of Social Media Church, Kevin describes how social media fits within the overall scheme … Continue reading Kevin Hendricks of ChurchMarketingSucks.com: Episode 83

Listen to the wide span of insights from Greg Atkinson – pastor, consultant, and Editor of Christian Media Magazine. He’s also author of a new book, Strange Leadership: 40 Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization. Topics we covered include: how to encourage church leaders that are reluctant about using social media, how to use social media wisely instead of wasting … Continue reading Greg Atkinson of Christian Media Magazine: Episode 82

Nils Smith is Innovation Pastor at Community Bible Church (San Antonio, TX) and its online campus OnlineChurch.com. Nils stops by the Social Media Church podcast to talk about creating online worship experiences specifically and exclusively for their online campus, how they do ministry effectively on Facebook, why they allow online members, the incredible ministry opportunity … Continue reading Nils Smith of OnlineChurch.com: Episode 81

Wes O’Haire is a web/ux designer by day and an active member at Higher Vision Church (Valencia, California). Wes launched a blog for online church campuses at LiveCampus.io to share resources and insights he found about doing ministry online. On this episode of Social Media Church, he shares about how his church uses social media, … Continue reading Wes O’Haire of Live Campus blog: Episode 80

Jed Davis is an avid blogger that I found serendipitously while making my rounds on the blogosphere. What caught my attention was his free eBook titled “The Social Media Guide for Churches: What You Need to Know and Why You Need to Know It”. We connected up and had a quick conversation on this episode … Continue reading Jed Davis of The Social Media Guide for Churches: Episode 79

Peter McGowan (of Media Social and Plain Joe Studios) sat down with DJ Chuang for an lively conversation about church and culture on this episode of Social Media Church. We covered topics like stewardship, creativity, storytelling, social media engagement, online church, innovation, divergent thinking, long-term projects, leading culture, the human condition, and much more. This … Continue reading Peter McGowan of Media Social: Episode 78

Van Baird launched Relational Equity to help cultivate meaningful relationships through social media, though he’d prefer to use the word media instead of social media. He explains why on this episode of Social Media Church; we also talk about how to listen well, show love, and tips for launching a podcast. Show Notes Connect with … Continue reading Van Baird on Listening and Podcasting: Episode 77

Kent Shaffer is the founder of ChurchRelevance.com and OpenChurch.com. Kent met up with me (DJ Chuang) in-person during his road trip through Orange County, California and we sat down to talk about how he got into social media, his spiritual life and dynamic journey in recent years, going from LifeChurch.tv to an inner city missional community, … Continue reading Kent Shaffer of ChurchRelevance.com and OpenChurch.com: Episode 76

Clint Schnekloth wrote this new book titled, “Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era“, and is lead pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (Fayetteville, Arkansas). He joined the Social Media Church podcast for a conversation about the back story of his new book, how social media is used in his church community, and his … Continue reading Clint Schnekloth, author of Mediating Faith: Episode 75

Social Media Church has a lively conversation with Justin Wise, author of a brand new book, The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication, just released 1 week ago and the print edition was already sold out on day 1 and it is still temporarily out of stock. But good thing the Kindle edition never … Continue reading Justin Wise, author of The Social Church: Episode 74