Contributor: Keith Anderson

Keith Anderson serves as pastor at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church near Philadelphia. He is the author of a new book on ministry leadership in a digital age, The Digital Cathedral: Networked Ministry in a Wireless World, and co-author, with Elizabeth Drescher, of Click 2 Save: The Digital Ministry Bible. Connect with Keith at pastorkeithanderson.net and on Twitter @prkanderson.

Re-Mediation in the D-I-Y Church

Keith Anderson (). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, DigitalMinistry, Re-mediating Religion, Themes.

Lately I’ve been thinking about a passage from the Gospel of John in which Jesus reminds Peter that our youthful vigor and self-determination will always fade. “Very truly, I tell you” Jesus says, “when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will... Read more

Searching for the End of the Internet

Keith Anderson (). Posted in DigitalMinistry, Websites.

You may remember a commercial that DirecTV ran back in 2002, touting its then state-of-the-art DSL internet service. The ad featured a guy sitting in front of his huge desktop computer. He supposedly was able to surf online so fast that a message popped up on his screen: “You have reached the end of the internet. You have seen everything there is to see. Please... Read more

Binge Watching Scripture

Keith Anderson (). Posted in 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyCulture.

My daughter is being confirmed this year. Now I understand why parents always say that they don’t know where the time goes. It feels like it was just yesterday that she was baptized. Now she is claiming all those baptismal promises we made on her behalf as her own. At our church, the confirmation program capstone is a “faith statement” that confirmands write... Read more

Gotta Catch ’em All

Six Websites Not to Miss This Summer

Keith Anderson (). Posted in Websites.

On July 7th I thought it had finally happened—the long foretold Zombie Apocalypse. On that day people were walking around my neighborhood, and even my church, shuffling their feet, eyes cast down at their smartphones, turning around aimlessly in circles and pointing at seemingly nothing. Before I could pack up my zombie survival kit and head out of town, I learned... Read more

A Community of Makers

The Changing Face of Clergy Collegiality

Keith Anderson (). Posted in 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry.

I must confess that I have been a less-than-dutiful clergy colleague. In Lutheran polity, congregations are organized in small geographic clusters called conferences, and their clergy gather for monthly meetings for mutual support and, oftentimes, text studies. Good times, right? Although it has been over three years since I took my new call, I still have not... Read more

Surf’s Up!

Seven Multimedia Ministry Sites Worth Surfing This Summer

Keith Anderson (). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, DigitalMinistry, Websites.

Summertime is often a time for ministry leaders to tackle that long reading list or stack of impulsively bought books from Amazon that has built up over the rush of the ministry program year. It is also a good time to travel off the beaten digital path and discover new resources for both personal nourishment and programmatic enhancement. Perhaps, like me, you... Read more

Coming Clean on Bringing Millennials Back to Church

Keith Anderson (). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2015.

Can you hear it? It’s the sound of Mainline ministry leaders around the country breathing deep sighs of relief, patting themselves on the back, and smiling in self-congratulation in response to the recent news that what Millennials—that generation woefully absent from their churches—really want from the church is . . . the sacraments. In her new book, Searching... Read more

Advent’s Invitation to Incarnational Imagination

Keith Anderson (, ). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, From Our Archives.

“The poet knows that the human experience of the sacred is awash in the particularity of things, the sensuous surface and ambient array of details that make possible any sense of dwelling in the presence of mystery.” – Belden Lane It’s Christmas morning, 1981, and I’m seven years old. I wake up early and fly down the two flights of stairs from my bedroom on the... Read more
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