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Paul, Thanks for your reply. It was helpful. You and everyone have really helped me to "narrow down" my focus to a manageable (I hope) project concept. I have chosen, as you may have noticed in my writing, the online magazine (as well as efforts to get it into print form for the "unititiated, who may well NEED it more than the audience who read it online).

> Opening the kind of doors to theological education online, as well as > supporting the kind of educational resources that make this available to > everyone, will not only appeal to the church but also will begin to > approach the problem of the church's perceived relevance in a > technological society.

The perceived relevance you mention is certainly a key concern of mine as well.

> includes both marketing and service delivery) that will make the terrain > a little easier for us all to travel.

This is certainly a worthy calling, one that I hope will soon start bearing fruit

> The question would be, "Who are we targeting now?" You've spoken of > several levels of service delivery, e.g. BBS, education, etc. What do > you see as your strategy and timetable for each? That might give a > little clearer picture about who you will be dealing with and when.

It seems as though the newsletter is one "manageable" project, because much of it entails online research and literature perusal that I am already doing without having it as a project. I can also do a good deal of the legwork on this online, appropriately. If the chance should arise, of course, to add in some work on BBS setup and design, I will be all too glad to add that to my load. But even then, it will be a matter of reporting and describing these efforts in my "Computer Bulletin Board Systems" section of New Technology Review Online.

> I also hear what JT has said about manageable projects, but I think > you'll work that out when it comes time to work out a specific project.

I agree. LIke many DMin projects I presume, in the course of gathering resources for the project, the more "accessible" and "marketable" stuff tends to take center stage in our efforts. The management of "focusing" tends to take place as a kind of natural selection (survival of the fittest ideas and most viable work).

> You are a little different than most of us in that you will really have > to narrow your focus to a particular part of your context rather than > vice versa as I'm doing.

One good reason why I chose the online magazine as the project piece. This will keep the focus broad by the nature of it, but not involving a lot of "leg work", but research and open eyes (which is my usual state anyway).

> Thanks for a lot of good thoughts. BTW, I'd really like to take a look > at the viewer file. Is that something you can make available?

The viewer files are online in attachment meetings "DOSVIEW EXE" (DOS viewer that will read nfo files created in either DOS 3.0 or Windows version 3.0(the latter of which I used to do the base for our class notes, but I need to update the base I had done at the time we met) The Windows version is in "WINVIEW EXE".