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Micah Fries has a great little article with some practical reflections about how to manage social media. His advice breaks down under four headings: 1. Get rid of notifications.2. Get away, while not getting away.3. Real people come first.4. Embrace the dichotomy. All of these are helpful, but I found number one to be a new idea that I had not seriously considered before. I think I will be implementing it very soon. Read the rest here.

Christianity Today has posted an excerpt from John Piper’s new book Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian. Here’s a snippet: Over four years later, on April 9, 1865, the war ended with the surrender of Southern general Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. Ninety years later, when I was nine years old in Greenville, the enforced segregation was almost absolute: drinking fountains, public restrooms, public schools, public swimming pools, bus seating, housing, restaurants, hospital waiting rooms, dentist waiting rooms, bus station waiting rooms, and—with their own kind of enforcement—churches, including mine. I can tell you from the inside that, for all the rationalized glosses, it was not “separate but…

SBC President Bryant Wright explains his rationale for appointing a task force to consider changing the name of the Southern Baptist Convention. He also invites Southern Baptists to suggest names. If you are interested in submitting a name, you can do so here.

Twitter exploded last night with the news that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) might be considering a name change. At the meeting of the SBC’s Executive Committee, SBC President Bryant Wright appointed a task force to study the issue. Jimmy Draper will be leading the task force. Other members include Al Mohler, Paige Patterson, David Dockery, Tom Elliff, Kevin Ezell, Ken Fentress, Micah Fries, Susie Hawkins, Roger Spradlin, Michael Allen, Marshall Blaylock, Aaron Harvie, Fred Hewitt, Cathy Horner, Benjamin Jo, Bob Sena, John Sullivan, and Jay Wolf.