TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global series of conferences run under the slogan "Ideas worth spreading". TED Talks are a maximum of 18 minutes long and serve as cultural touchstones on a wide variety of topics. They are fascinating to study as church leaders because they are the closest...

  Joining me on the unSeminary podcast this week is John Finkelde from Perth, Australia. John has been in the ministry for about 33 years. He spent 10 years as a team pastor, followed by 20 years as a lead pastor. About 3 years ago, John and his wife began...

Generosity needs to be baked in, not bolted on. There is a lot of conversation about how to encourage people to give to your church. Part of the generosity equation that isn't spoken about as much is how a church itself can be generous. My experience has been that as...

    This week on the unSeminary podcast, I was honored to welcome the Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication at Azusa University, Dr. Ryan Hartwig. I first met Ryan while he was doing research for a new book. He visited...

charity: water is a non-profit organization that provides clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. The organization was founded in 2006 and has helped fund 13,641 projects in 22 countries, benefiting over 4.6 million people. As of December 8, 2014, it has raised over $155 million. If you've been a part of the unSeminary...

  Welcome to this Thursday’s edition of the podcast here on unSeminary. I’m so excited you’re tuning in this week because today, we’re going global! For the first time here on the podcast, a Non-North American church leader is joining me: Morgan Herselman, of Southpoint Church in Cape Town, South...

Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube (Google's category-dominating video service). She has seen Google grow from the very start ... the company was once based in her garage! In 2011, Wojcicki authored an almost instant classic article entitled "The Eight Pillars of Innovation" about how the company pushes itself forward. These...

    Welcome to this Thursday’s edition of the unSeminary podcast. This week I’m super-excited to be talking to Chris Vacher, also known as Chris from Canada, who is an excellent leader at C4 Church, east of Toronto. Chris got this week’s session started by filling us in on his...

Is your church launching a new campus? Or are you moving from one rental facility to another? At some point in your church's journey, you're going to be looking at new sites. Here are some tips for what to bring along when you visit potential locations: Smartphone Camera // You can't take...

1/3 of all "prime time" internet traffic is from Netflix. We can't ignore the popularity of Netflix. It's a mixture of clever marketing, excellent deployment and being in the right place at the right time. In a move similar to what iTunes did in the music industry 10 years ago, Netflix has...