The VPN Myth: Why Your Church Needs to Rethink Remote Work

I have a confession: I’ve always hated virtual private networks (VPNs). They’ve been popular in tech for a very long time, but to me a VPN always seemed to be a kludge solution… even in the heyday of on-premise computing… now, with it making so...

AI + Privacy + Your Church = Bing Chat for Enterprise

There are many legitimate concerns about personal data being leaked via AI tools. This week at Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft announced a move to solve that with the release of Microsoft Bing Chat for Enterprise and has made it immediately available as part of the...

Should Your Church Join Threads?

So Meta, owners of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, released a new social media app this week called “Threads” that is amassing users by the millions per day. At this point, you are probably wondering “good grief, another one, does my church need...

Better Church Phone Calling: Using Teams for VoIP

I don’t know about you, but I don’t make all that many phone calls these days. Still, having a phone is just not optional for a church. I’m not a fan of old-fashioned land lines and PBX systems: they are old, they are expensive, they only work in the...