When the ship runs out of ocean
And the blogwatch runs aground

Land’s where we know the boat is found…

(Yes, there will be real posting later–definitely a book review, maybe other stuff–but for now, this is all you get.)

Church Marketing Sucks: How blogging can help the church. This is in the comments: “On my church’s website I have set up a situation where people can search the bible for topics and the website keeps track of the most popular topics requested. From there I write a brief blog elaborating in more depth on the topic. This helps me know what my people are wrestling with (in an anonymous way) and gives me the opportunity to help them out.” Via Relapsed Catholic.

Church of the Masses: Really neat post on adapting a story from one medium to another. In the comments box, there are some notes on Russian-to-English translation that might interest Ratty and other such Russophiles.

Telford Work: Is Christianity a cop-out?