“All that glitters is not gold,” wrote Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice, and I find that applies to a lot of things in this world. Take Las Vegas, for example: it’s a very glittery place, with lights and action and excitement everywhere, along with an undercurrent of the taboo: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. In my 34 years in the computer industry, […]
Amazingly, the God of creation chooses to communicate with His fallen and corrupt creation. In the greatest act of love ever seen, He sent his Son to communicate His love for us by dying in our place, taking the punishment that we all deserve once for all. God has communicated this offer of forgiveness through every advance of technology man has devised: from the road […]
We just finished ICCM-Eu 2016, an annual gathering of tech-professionals that are using their skills, training, passions, and experiences to further the cause of Christ in Europe. So what do such people do for fun? You might imagine that we have cables running in every direction for some massive LAN party (extra points to you for knowing about LAN parties). However, the pendulum has swung […]
All good things must come to an end. That includes great things like this year’s ICCM-Europe! Thad Hoskins – AKA “Keynote” – closed the week with several good reminders: We should remember who we are. We’re not tech-professionals first, but instead children of the Living God. We have been called to the work we’re doing. Tech in missions is good, honorable, and worthy of being […]
Our keynote speaker, Thad Hoskins, is really hitting it out of the park. He’s really wrestled with something just about every IT-minded Christian has struggled with, especially those doing IT stuff on the mission field: How can technology be ministry? He’s had a lot of encouraging things to say, but one that really resonated with me was how tech-ministry is catalytic. Technology comes alongside ministry and […]
Every year at ICCM-EU it hosts a contest called TFM which stands for Technology For Missions. The contestants in this contest have the opportunity to introduce some piece of wiz-bang tech that they’d created in the past year. Then they’re all put to a vote and the favorites get prizes. It’s a chance to get some recognition in an often unappreciated and overlooked field. It also helps […]
I’ve been an attendee of ICCM for the last two years, so when it came time to volunteer to help with the planning of the 2016 conference, I decided it was time to step up and truly help out. When it was asked if eDOT would host the upcoming conference, I thought that we could easily handle it given our personnel at the time, but […]
If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you hear a lot about ICCM this time of year. But perhaps you’re not quite sure what it is, or why we talk about it so much. International Conference on Computing and Mission (ICCM) is a conference for missions-minded people who are passionate about using technology in missions and ministry. This year, eDOT is hosting. Being new […]