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Monday, July 22, 2002 |
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TheoBlogical Thoughts for tonight
"Theoblogical" reflection is to look at the ways that blogging helps us do theology. The most basic thing it brings to the discussion is to present a way of looking at the world
11:30:50 PM 
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I emailed Jordan:
Jordan,
Loved your article! [Ian's Messy Desk], to which I have subscribed, popped that entry up on my News Feed tonight, and I was pumped! I gotta write this guy! I want to invite you to explore a few blurbs on my blog, for we have a lot in common in that we both got captured by the insights into the "conversation" that the Internet has renewed by our "market" out there. Amen to the impersonal, informational Church websites that don;t sound like the dynamic, caring, fun people who make up many of those Church communities who , in ignorance of the conversation people seek via the Net, shovel out brochureware. I am in the process of trying to convince my Luddite-leaning Church members here that Church Websites should be about telling our story, not regurgitating our schedule. Nobody wants to come to be "in Church", they want to come to be "in Church with people who they are comfortable with".
11:24:27 PM
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Jordan, come and visit me, man! We got a lot in common.
Blogging: Advice for Church Websites.
Jordon Cooper writes:
"Several months ago I wrote an article in Next-Wave that talked about evangelism and communicating to an increasingly net-literate lifestyle. Since then I downloaded a plethora of e-mail soliciting my opinion on their local church website. Many of those local church sites got posted on jordoncooper.com. Recently I took time to review the list and two things caught my attention. Almost all of them are very well designed but I never found myself being drawn back to check them out very often.
As I was thinking about this I started to go through my bookmarks and took another look at the sites that I go back to all the time. I started to look for the characteristics that kept drawing me back. As I was formulating what was surely going to be a best selling epic book, I picked up the now legendary book, The Cluetrain Manifesto. I got no further than the first paragraph of the introduction to see that my best-selling book had already been written (doh) and I had my answer for what drew me back to the web. The authors pose this question,
"What if the real attraction of the Internet is not its cutting-edge bells and whistles, its jazzy interface or any of the advanced technology that underlies it pipes and wires? What if, instead, the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling takes? Five thousand years ago, the marketplace was the hub of civilization, a place to which traders returned from remote lands with exotic spices, silks, monkeys, parrots, jewels-and fabulous stories."
It hit me and thousands of other people that the reason we came online is that there was a conversation of millions of voices happening, and we were missing out. In reading The Cluetrain Manifesto, it came clear what so many churches were missing as we moved online, a voice. [read more from next-wave magazine] link from [Ian's Messy Desk]
11:09:08 PM
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Rats! Comeon' Kenny! I understand as a person, but as A Reds fan: ComeON!
Rogers puts Reds on hold. The Cincinnati Reds have worked out an agreement to acquire Kenny Rogers from the Texas Rangers, but the veteran lefthander has put the deal on hold. Rogers has a no-trade clause in his contract and is still deciding on whether to waive it and accept the deal. [UPI - Sports Desk]
9:23:25 PM
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On looking at the Sweet's blog (see last night's post) , however, it looks to be in testing mode, and is backwards chronologically from the standard blog (but, as I said, he's testing, but since 5/12/2001? It appears to be a forgotten area, which makes one wonder why it's even accessible online. I hope this changes, because I would be interested in seeing Dr. Sweet's blogging, to see where he goes with it.
United Theological Seminary is on my "Balcony People" list of influential people, for it was there, in 1990-91 that I began to form the idea of networking theological community, through working with the video production computing equipment, doing videoconferencing, and being a student of Ken Bedell and Dennis Benson. Ken is still someone I call from time to time ---and frequently email-----and describe what I've been thinking about. See People for more on United Theological Seminary and Ken and Dennis.........
6:39:06 AM
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