Elizabeth Drescher is an educator, scholar, writer, and speaker on Christian spirituality who teaches in the undergraduate program in Religious Studies and the graduate program in Pastoral Ministry at Santa Clara University.

Dr. Drescher is a regular contributor to the online magazine, Religion Dispatches and a well-known preacher, conference speaker, and workshop leader. Her website is www.elizabethdrescher.net

Her book Tweet If You Love Jesus was written for pilgrims, skeptics, and pioneers of the Digital Reformation that is taking place right now. It offered clergy and congregations the chance to open new doors to communication, relationship, and leading and creating community.

This follow-up paperback is an accessible and well-designed resource by Drescher and Lutheran clergyman Keith Anderson (pastorkeithanderson.net). It begins with a definition of digital ministry, the new kid on the block:

"Digital ministry is the set of practices that extend spiritual care, formation, prayer, evangelism, and other manifestations of grace into online spaces like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, where more and more people gather to nurture, explore, and share their faith today."

Drescher and Anderson are convinced that social media offer congregations, families, and other Christian groups an enrichment and expansion of their ministries and lives. The book is divided into four chapters:

1. Remapping Our Worlds (how social media have transformed the landscape)

2. The Real Presence (developing a unique, authentic voice for Digital Ministry)

3. I Love to Tell the Story (social media platforms)

4. Practicing the Arts of Digital Ministry (offering hospitality, caring for God's people, forming disciples, building community, making pubic witness, etc.)

In the last of the four chapters, Drescher and Anderson explore the four core practices of Listening, Attending, Connecting, and Engaging (LACE). Along the way, they share personal experiences, profile digital ministries, present definitions of social media terminology, and invite readers to join the conversation about the wider use of these communication vehicles.