Mar
31
2009

Roger Butner
Yesterday, as I was driving home from my office, an electronic sign caught my eye. A daycare center on my daily commute route has one of those electronic billboard signs that changes to flash up multiple messages. It’s the kind of thing that grabs your attention the first few times you see it, then [...]
Tags: adolescence, HOPE, the journey
Mar
30
2009

Roger Butner
This is a fantastic post from Jeff Jenkins regarding the power of building honesty, vulnerability, and trust in marriage. Thanks so much for sharing these insights with us, Jeff!
Tags: HOPE, marriage / relationships
Mar
29
2009

Roger Butner
All this hubbub about the Christian Blogger Awards has got me really pondering the medium and dynamics of blogging. I would like to invite you to ponder and share with me on this. For an interesting insight and dialogue on what blogs seem to capture our attention, check out Trey Morgan’s recent post.
How did you [...]
Tags: blogging
Mar
28
2009

Roger Butner
In its inaugural year, “The Christian Blogger Awards” are primarily within the Church of Christ brotherhood, given the folks who began the award. We’ll see how it grows in coming years. I was honored to be a finalist, and I look forward to connecting more with my fellow Christian bloggers.
And the winners are…
Best Marriage/Parenting/Family Blog: [...]
Tags: blogging, community, HOPE, media, social networking
Mar
28
2009

Roger Butner
CHECK THIS OUT!
Where The Wild Things Are, coming at you live this fall!
WAY COOL!!!
Tags: books, media, movies
Mar
27
2009

Roger Butner
Last night I experienced not only one of my all time best Dad moments in my five year “career” as a Dad, but a moment that was truly one of the highlights of my life to date.
My son is an extremely gregarious kid who seems always on the go, and who we regularly refer to [...]
Tags: family, manhood, parenting
Mar
27
2009

Roger Butner
Thanks to my friend/colleague/sister/boss, Murphy Toerner, for this post about G. K. Chesterson’s powerful reply to the question, “What’s wrong with the world?”
Tags: HOPE
Mar
26
2009

Roger Butner
This morning I awoke to a Baton Rouge that is both soggy and beautiful. Sometimes life is like that. Rains come and fall all over our lives. As the showers fall or the storms rage, we aren’t quite sure whether to feel anxious or encouraged. Changes are coming, as they inevitably do, but no one [...]
Tags: coffee, nature
Mar
25
2009

Roger Butner
I have been reflecting, of late, on the impact and significance of new communication technologies / social networking tools in our culture. The Internet itself, blogs, email, instant messaging, texting, i-phones, Blackberries, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. Communication in Western culture has changed exponentially in my lifetime, and I am only 35!
Yesterday I [...]
Tags: coffee, culture, facebook, friends, media, social networking, texting, twitter
Mar
24
2009

Roger Butner
Check out this post on Walt Mueller’s (of CPYU) blog. Not sure where the cartoon came from.
“I’m taking you to the Twittersphere!”
So, what do you think? Regarding Facebook, MySpace, blogging, Twitter, etc, how do you see these “social networking sites” impacting our culture? Your family? Your life? Friend or foe?
I look forward to your [...]
Tags: adolescence, blogging, culture, media, social networking, teens, twitter