2011: Faith and Technology

Got Questions? Platform: iPhone, Android Price: Free About it: The Got Questions app, based on the popular GotQuestions.org apologetics website, lists questions about the Bible categorized in more than 30 topics. From “How do you explain the Trinity?” to “Why is the virgin birth so important?” the app tackles more than 300,000 questions. Users also […]

Criswell College Platform: iPhone, iPad, Android Price: Free About it: The app by the Dallas school includes audio of sermons and other speakers and allows the audio to be either streamed or downloaded. The app also features blog entries and resources by seminary professors and administrators, along with a calendar of events. GuideStone Financial Resources […]

If you think your church could use an app, it might be a good idea to smart small before getting that first app developed, says technology columnist Aaron Linne.

Technology columnist Aaron Linne examines three technological innovations from October that will fundamentally change the way that our children play with the world around.

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Platform: iPhone, iPad, Android Price: Free About it: The app includes a daily devotional, classic Billy Graham sermons on video and audio, and monthly TV specials. Also included are the “Hour of Decision” radio program, a Bible reading plan, articles and a section on how to be saved. Southwestern Baptist Theological […]

Alliance Defense Fund Platform: iPhone, Android Price: Free About it: Sponsored by ADF, a Christian legal organization that defends religious freedom around the United States and the world, the app allows users to stay up-to-date on the latest news regarding the defense of religious liberty, the sanctify of life and marriage. Stories can be shared […]

Tablet computers like the iPad, Kindle Fire and Google Honeycomb will change the way churches operate in the near future, says tech columnist Aaron Linne, who lists five ways ministry might change.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This month’s Christian Apps of the Month features apps that review films, TV programs and music from a Christian perspective. Plugged in Mobile Platform: iPhone, Android. Price: Free About it: The Plugged In app, a product of Focus on the Family’s PluggedInOnline.com entertainment review arm, features movie, music, TV show and video game […]

Baptist Press tech columnist Aaron Linne spotlights the work of Creative Missions in mobilizing tech geeks, design creatives and communications specialists to help teach churches how they can better communicate with their surrounding cultures.

BON REPOS, Haiti (BP) -- Wearing only an oversized T-shirt, Tiga does not know he is poor. What the child does know is that he is hungry -- so very hungry. Tiga lives in Bon Repos, Haiti, a place still shattered by last year's earthquake. The orphanage where Tiga lives, Actions Pour Les Enfants [French for "Action for the Children"], is home to 118 Haitian children like Tiga whose parents died or abandoned them because they were unable to provide even basic needs. Unfortunately, life in the orphanage is not much better than on the streets. Still reeling from the devastation of a powerful quake on Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti has entire villages living in tents and children starving on street corners. God, however, is using chickens to change this orphanage's future. "Chickens lay eggs; eggs feed orphans," said Amy Hobbs, a Southern Baptist volunteer from Macon, Ga. Those words have become a mantra, fueling a movement that seeks to save Haiti's forgotten. It was supposed to be a construction mission, Hobbs said. Instead, God led this wife of a pharmacist to assist a volunteer medical clinic at the Bon Repos orphanage where she met 60 starving children in March. The medical clinic was affiliated with the Baptist Global Response international relief and development organization.