You need an account to use it, but many seminaries offer it as a courtesy to their alumni. Of course, nothing beats Ebscohost for true academic research. Wikipedia has several different apps available for it, but Wikipanion is a pretty good one. I’d like to see more research-related apps on the iPad, but there’s a couple that are worth noting. Instead of status updates about your life, you rate books you’ve recently read or are reading. Think of Goodreads as Facebook for books. I can flip through hundreds of articles in minutes, and it is easy enough on the eyes that I don’t get tired doing so.Īnd, finally, if you want others to know what you’ve been reading (which can be useful for pastors), Goodreads is a good app to have. It turns your RSS, Twitter, and Facebook feeds into a magazine-style reader. This one is special enough to hit my favorites bar at the bottom. The app, though, is simply a collection of links to the articles on their website. I’ve done a good deal of leadership training with the Lewis Center, so I’m a fan of what they put out. (Again, not something I subscribe to).įinally, I’ll give a plug for Leading Ideas, which is the branded app for the Lewis Center for Church Leadership. Relevant has a pretty good-looking magazine on the iPad, and if you subscribe to Relevant, it’s worth checking out.Ĭharisma Media Magazine is another church-related magazine, although it seems to be little more than a glorified pdf. But, you can find some decent articles to read on it, and even a link to subscribe to the print magazine. Leadership Journal has an app for the iPhone, which means it looks really bad on the iPad.
There are a few church-related magazines that should be mentioned, though. So, I suspect the offerings will increase in the future, but time will tell. Perhaps the primary operative for Christianity is communication, and the iPad offers a remarkable way of communicating through interactive magazines. I’ve found that church magazines are surprisingly sparse on the iPad, and I can only attribute this to cost of publishing. Magazinesįor magazines, I use a combination of Zinio (an app that offers quite a few magazines available through it – I subscribe to National Geographic on it) and Newsstand (I subscribe to Writing Magazine and Wired Magazine on it). This makes the Kindle app all the more reason to call it #1 for books. Recently I’ve gotten onto a kick of borrowing Kindle books from my library (which I can do from home, for free). Still, Amazon has the selection and therefore my money. However, the offering of books with digital interactive content makes for an enticing product. We’ve covered the new iBooks in detail on ChurchMag here, here and here, so I won’t rehash all the features in this article. Booksįor reading books, I like the Amazon Kindle app the best – not because of the features of the app, but because of the selection of books available on Amazon.įor features, the updated iBooks app by Apple is hard to beat.
The moment we stop trying to learn new things is the moment we stop growing in our faith and leadership. Okay – this isn’t really “church-related”, but in a way it is. I’m sure there are some out there that I don’t know about or use, but here’s the list of my favorite go-to apps: Being an early adopter of the iPad (I think I got mine on day 3), I occasionally get asked what are the best apps for pastors, preachers, and/or church leaders.
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