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Life(style)

Quoted in ‘3 ideas for living well in 2021’ on 7Minutes by @ChrisGoswami

I ask people a lot to think about what the fruits of the spirit look like online, so was happy to see Chris Goswami pick up on this:

Read the full blog post.

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Speaker

[SPEAKER] Being a Christian Online in a time of COVID19 (with Cancer), with @ctlaltdelchurch / @stewartcutler

I spoke to Stewart Cutler last Friday morning (yes, less than 48 hours after bombshell news, and yes, I should probably work on a more flattering angle!), for his podcast ‘What happens when you turn off church and turn it back on again? That’s the question we put to church leaders to find out what their priorities were following the coronavirus lockdown, what is evolving in their church and what worship and discipleship might look like as we delve into church online.’

A very life-affirming chat … and no particular preparation – enjoyed myself!

I think at some point I referred to my academic paper on being a Christian online.

Watch in video form:


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Media & Press Media - Audio

[MEDIA] What should happen to our online selves when we die? from @LifeSearch for @UCBNewsTeam

LifeSearch (a life insurance company) have posted the results of a new study that they have done, into how prepared people are in managing their digital assets/social media after death, and found that a large number of users want their data cleared automatically on death, whilst others want to hold onto e.g. e-books/music, and photographs for the benefit of others post death:

Currently, when a person passes away, loved ones face substantial paperwork to deactivate social profiles and mail accounts. Processes differ between sites and providers, but can include having to provide death certificates, sharing copies of ID, filling in forms and giving extensive information about the deceased –  and some will only work with immediate family.

The company has provided access to some basic guidance about how to manage digital assets after death which is quite useful. The story has also been covered by Sky News, which adds a bit of extra colour.

I spoke to UCB News about the story earlier:

*apologies to the UCB team and any listeners for the bings – my work email was up in webmail, and I thought that the noise of me closing it would be worse than what I hoped was just one email bing!

We looked at the story from a professional angle, how do we encourage people to think about how to use social/digital media well, and that includes thinking about what happens to them when we die (whether that be expected or not), and I mentioned that I’d been thinking about my funeral, and have started thinking about my digital assets, though I have some work to do in that area (I’m thinking a digital file that I give access to specific people for).

Further guides LifeSearch have offered are:

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Event

[EVENT] Manchester Digital Annual Conference #MDMemberConf

Yesterday’s excellent event:

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[SPEAKER] Engaging with #ExploringBelief for Religion in the Media Festival

I was originally invited to participate in the ‘digital religion’ panel for this event (a little confused about what happened – as you’ll see from my tweets I had a lot to say). However, got to meet up with some friends old and new at the end event, and was available for 1-2-1s with those who wanted them. Was some high profile interesting speakers – see more on this collection of tweets: