There Is a Holy Side to Facebook Live

Though the concept of livestreaming sermons is by no means novelâ??â??â??hundreds of religious institutions across the continent offer some form of online spiritual guidanceâ??â??â??Facebook Live offers accessibility to houses of worship that once found the technology too cumbersome or expensive. In some cases, according to Jason Caston, founder of a church-centric digital consulting company called the iChurch Method, groups using YouTube to upload videos have run into copyright-infringement issues because of the music they play. Other times, streaming for long periods of time required expensive software. But with Facebook Live, he says, many churches are finally convinced that the process is convenient enough to experiment with.