Category: Weblogs

  • My blogging process

    Posting something almost daily at adammclane.com is a challenge. So I thought it’d be fun to write about that process. Perhaps this will provide an insight into my daily life or maybe it’ll even help someone figure out a new process for them? Three main sources of my daily post I wake up and have…

  • Now on Kindle

    Just a quick note that adammclane.com is now available on Kindle. I’m free for 14 days. Here’s the link

  • Top posts for Q1

    I’m not too good about updating this monthly, so here are the most popular blogs posts for the first quarter of 2009. 1. What’s all the fuss about sexting? 2. Repairing a wet iPod Touch 3. A Dare for Pastors 4. Medium-sized Church Crisis 5. Vision, goal, and mission statements Top 5 search terms of…

  • How Not to Be a Jerk

    I’ve noticed a crazy pattern. Help me understand it. Cause: A Christian leader will say or blog or tweet or Facebook something over-the-top. Hey, it happens. The way things are these days, an unfiltered moment can easily get recorded. Effect: Someone calls them on it. Maybe it’s a blog post or maybe it’s just a…

  • Launching Beyond The Zoo

    As I’ve talked about here a few times, Kristen and I have collaborated to create a new website. In truth, it’s just a convergence of two great passions for both of us… blogging and eating! The whole point of BeyondTheZoo.com is to help people discover hidden gems in San Diego County. We know that when…

  • Beyond the Zoo: Feedback wanted

    As I’ve been mentioning, Kristen and I are working on a new website. We’ve settled on a launch date of January 1st… which puts us deep into preparations. To be honest, today was the first time we really sat down to map out the plan for this site. Up until now it’s just been something…

  • A Few Ways to Connect with Me

    Maybe you’re ready to take this relationship to the next level? Let’s say you come to Adam McLane’s site every day. And you’re thinking to yourself… “Adam, I dig what you have to say. What are some ways you can check out what else I do online?” Here are a few ways I suggest you…

  • Top posts for November

    #1 The Personal Preference Sin (several follow-up posts in process) #2 How Should Church Staff be Treated? #3 Don’t Bail Out US Automakers #4 I Get Paid for This? #5 The Lord’s Prayer, a Paraphrase

  • Is Twitter Killing Blogs?

    The youth ministry world has seen a decline in the quantity and quality of youth ministry blogs. I don’t have any research to back that statement up, but as a person who spends his life blogging the world of youth ministry I can say that I find it harder and harder to find great blog…

  • How to respond to critics of your ministry?

    So you’re minding your own business and doing your thing. Then the phone rings and a friend calls saying something like this, “Did you know that someone in the church wrote about you on their blog? They didn’t say nice things! What are you going to do about it?” I can understand. For one thing,…