Stephanie Massler examines how brand enthusiasm impacts media buying on Doe Anderson. Stephanie provides two thoughtful examples and offers five guidelines for an advanced media purchasing framework. These include focusing not on how many people you reach, but in how you are able to connect with you...

One of the biggest secrets about the Sundance Film Festival is the quality of its documentaries — and though Robert Redford and crew try hard to highlight the exquisite non-fiction section of their yearly independent library, the doc categories are often overshadowed by the bigger, more access...

Targeting the anxiousness caused by what some are calling “The Great Recession,� my pastor Joshua Harris recently preached a pair of messages at Covenant Life Church (Gaithersburg, MD). Entitled “The Good Recession,� Harris taught from Luke 12:13-34. Both messages addressed the proper Christ...

Gawker operative Stephen Kosloff has sent us another batch of photos from the frozen film wonderland that is the Sundance Film Festival. Now with product-placing bunnies. The party for the documentary, A Sealed Fate? contained the following ingredients: Director and America's Next Top Model host Nig...

Preparing my Forum Seminar on 'Love the Church' I've been re-reading Josh Harris and Terry Virgo on church. Tasty stuff. I want to exalt the church because [she] is exalted in Scripture. [She] is the bride of Christ: a reflection of the glory and the beauty of the love within the Trinity... Church i...

I recently got back from the New Attitude 08 conference in Louisville, Kentucky. I've been on perpetual download since then, after hearing speakers like CJ Mahaney, Josh Harris, Eric Simmons, John Piper, Mark Dever and Al Mohler. The theme of the conference is Humble Orthodoxy, and has been for a co...

Life has been wonderfully full lately. Got back late (read VERY late) Tuesday night from the New Attitude conference, where about 3200 singles and young married couples gathered to sing God’s praise, hear the Word of God preached, experience meaningful fellowship, and exhaust themselves doing ...

I love this game.  You have everyone submit on paper two truths about themselves, and one lie, and then you have to vote on who you think wrote it, and what the lie is.  Very fun ice breaker, highly recommend it.  The trick is to come up with OUTLANDISH things in your life that are tr...

Counting down to the moment when webcam girls are the future again, but only if they’re unevenly distributed on MySpace and YouTube, let’s remember those depressingly prescient days in 2000 and 2001, when it looked like anyone could be naked and fuck in online public and it might not alw...