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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
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I have been working on myself since yesterday's corporate Dear John letter from a prospective employer, telling myself that this was not what I'm after, even though the atmosphere was great, the company was/is doing great. It would not be what I've been getting called to these past 10 years. It's just that now does not seem to be a time ripe with experimentation and abundant funding for exploration of vision. And yet, who the hell cares (other than, like, needin' a paycheck), because on the other hand, God has been known to work from a few loaves and fishes.
11:02:10 AM 
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After sleeping in about two hours later (to make up for the 2 hours I was up between 2:45am and 4:45), I got up, made a cup of green tea (I've been doing Green tea most mornings to cut down on coffee), and wrote a reply to Ken, who had written last night. I ended up doing a bit of blogging (or blog-like writing) in my reply, as I told him about my not getting the job I was all hyped about, and going for another interview today at 4pm, about 30 minutes from here over in Brentwood.
That email did me good. The meat of the "blog-like" part was this:
I saw a quote from Leonard Sweet where he said "We need fewer Church Websites and more Web Ministries". That's a good point. The Church needs to be looking more and more like Online culture in the style of its communications, and stop trying to duplicate the brochure approach. It needs to figure out how to take its message and its stories online and engage the online culture. The Pew internet Research report keeps coming up with vast increases in the amount of people searching for spirituality and connectedness online (you probably watch these types things too, since you spent a year or two in St. Louis doing that same kind of research.)
I have often thought how I would find a way to "complete" my DMIn project from 1993-95. I was all the way to the project stage, having done all the preliminary papers with JT Robertson and David Lochhead's online group. But I would need to find a possible source of funding
10:52:10 AM
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Some interesting thoughts in this article
Success of Web Blogs Heralds an Even Bigger Future. BizReport.com Mar 11 2003 4:07AM ET [Moreover - Cyberculture news]
such as:
"With blogging, all you really need is an articulate point of view and some dedication to reach a very broad audience," said Todd Copilevitz, director of Richards Interactive, a marketing firm that has studied blogs extensively.
The way bloggers link and influence each other's thinking could lead to a collective thought process, "a kind of hive brain," said Chris Cleveland, who runs Dieselpoint, a Chicago maker of search software that recently worked with Blogger.com.
The "collective thought process" is something that captures my "theological imagination", because that seems to knock on the door of discovery of new ways to enable community in the Church, since it conjures up an image of a kind of Pentecost. More on that after I try to get bak to sleep (see the previous post as to why I was up at this hour)
4:28:00 AM
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I'm awake at 4:12 am, and have been since about 2:45. I got "the letter" one dreads when awaiting word on a job. It was the St. Louis job I mentioned on 2/27. I had an inkling , especially once Thursday came and went last week with no word that this one was probably in the history books. I even had nagging doubts about my responses during the interview on a couple of points. When I woke up to use the bathroom, I layed awake trying to shake the feeling of descending into all the doubts about one's abilities, qualifications, and prospects in this extremely , well, SUCKY time of economic woe and increasingly tough job market. I try to tell myself that it wasn't what I've been aiming at --- it's not a Church related thing. But I wonder how f 'n long it's going to take for the Church if technology companies and IT department companies are cutting back (except for the St. Louis job which I DIDN'T get).
4:22:07 AM
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