{"id":12263,"date":"2009-02-12T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2009\/02\/12\/video-ur-shane-hipps-at-npc\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:11:41","slug":"video-ur-shane-hipps-at-npc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/video-ur-shane-hipps-at-npc\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Ur: Shane Hipps at NPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We create media, and then media re-creates us. That&#8217;s the message Shane Hipps, author of <em>Flickering Pixels<\/em> (Zondervan, 2009) wanted pastors at NPC to hear in his interview on the main stage last night and in his seminars this morning. Shane&#8217;s latest book is a journey into the hidden power of media\u2013and a challenge to the standard line that the message stays the same even when the medium changes. <\/p><p>Skye and I sat down with Shane today to ask him a couple of questions that are of particular interest on the blogosphere: how is Internet-based community different from flesh-and-blood Christian community? And what happens to the gospel when it&#8217;s translated into a digital medium such as Second Life? <\/p><p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n                                <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shane Hipps NPC\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bJkSJmvK7eg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><\/p><p>You can look forward to a review of Shane&#8217;s book, <em>Flickering Pixels<\/em>, in the next issue of <em>Leadership<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We create media, and then media re-creates us. That&#8217;s the message Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels (Zondervan, 2009) wanted pastors at NPC to hear in his interview on the main stage last night and in his seminars this morning. 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