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Monday, September 02, 2002 |
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More photos in People (Wife Janet and Daughter Kelli)
8:31:22 PM 
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Ron asks:
"can we make use of the Web, the Net, a "third place" in cyberspace, to tell the prodigals to come home to a party, and to get the elder brothers out of the back room and into the party, too?"
Hmmm..Ron, looks like you've read or know of Ray Oldenburg........
5:06:56 PM
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Here's what Ron had to say about "this here" place on "his there" place:
"There have been so few people that I have encountered looking at the interaction between blogs and the local church, whether as "Knowledge Sharing" for staff (with its confidentiality problems) or as presenting a human voice in the marketplace (a la Cluetrain); so few, that I want to record my discovery of those working this out in their lives."
which makes for a still different kind of "Third Place"..........here and there, in this "space" which is yet another twist on the "Cyberspace" social realities; from email to web spaces to weblog conections which converse across the servers and link via such things as rss and xml.....it's gettin' interesting.......
5:05:30 PM
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I found Ron in my "referrer logs" and was delighted to see someone finding some common ground here (not that I'm surprised, but I have to celebrate the occasion once again when a little bit of community happens via weblog connections.
5:00:16 PM
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Call to Commitment, and just about anything written by the late Elizabeth O'Connor, are my absolute favorites. O'Connor was a beautiful writer. Her stories of the COS people so wonderfully communicated in an accurate way the "atmosphere" and spirit of the activity and community at COS, and surrounding many other communities I have since come into contact with who have had their lives touched by the continuing legacy of this community. I would love to get back again before Gordon is gone. He shows no signs of such, at least as of the last I heard, and I believe he is around 80, and still sharp as a tack, and some kind of preacher. I've met him on about 3 occasions, and he's such a wonderful, warm person, and I have so much to be thankful for that he and COS have had so much to do with.
I lost a hardback copy of Call to Commitment about 5 years ago when I moved from Cincinnati to Nashville. I had been involved in a group calling themselves "Servant Leadership School" (based on the one started by The Church of the Saviour in Washington DC) for about a year and a half when I got my present Web Development job. Of course, all of us were always talking about various things COS (Church of the Saviour) and I had lent my copy to somebody long before I knew I was to be moving. That person passed it on to another, until time had passed and I had moved and forgotten all about having lent it out. I just recently ordered a paperback copy for 8.95 from Pottter's House Books (along with the Gordon Cosby book quoted from in a blog that I quoted from on Sunday-----fill in the name later when I remember------)
Journey Inward, Journey Outward is the next book
9:21:10 AM
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