Ali Johnson

It's Monday morning and time for an easy to start to the week. Check out a lovely bit of media for you viewing pleasure... I wonder if McDonald's realise how spiritual this ad actually is. I love it. I find myself being drawn in to emphasise with the young guy. It is quite an ad for an American company. For McDonald's to be drawn into the hot topic is quite a statement. I truly believe that this whole ad campaign has a massive effect on the way people will view the homosexual debate. Will it become publicly cool to be gay. Will ...

I was reading over at Mashable a great article by Brian Solis the author Engage. He was giving 21 rules for Social Media Engagement. I spent sometime this morning reflecting on them. Me and my friend Huw Tyler over at ShareCreative have been considering and discussing Social Media and the pros and cons of it for a while now. Mainly because we feel the church has a massive opportunity to engage creatively in a medium that is spreading content like wild fire throughout the world (remind you of anything). Social Media has become seen by organizations as a rich channel for them to connect with their markets. As I ...

I don't know what you are like, but sometimes I just need to read a little bit of exciting news about what God is up to somewhere else in His creation and it re-ignites my spark. This happened to me when I re-read ViralHope. ViralHope was a serious of blog post over at JR Woodward's blog. The post went for 50 days up to Pentecost. As I avidly followed the post I was overwhelmed by how much we become self focused in our ministry, when sometimes we need to take a step back and remember that we live a big world and God is alive and well. ViralHope is the compiling of these post into a beautiful book that ...

Pieter Hugo was born in 1976 and grew up in Cape Town, where he continues to live. He underwent a two-year residency in 2002-3 at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. Let me know what you think it says...

I saw this today on Mashable and loved it. Wonder if we truly realize what impact Facebook has had on communication and on the way we do community.

Eugene H. Peterson (born November 6, 1932), is a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He has written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language[1] (Navpress Publishing Group, 2002), a contemporary translation of the Bible. This quote is taken from The Jesus Way. "The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar terrritory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him." — Eugene H. Peterson (The Jesus Way: A Conversation ...