What a shame to see the theological forces of fundamentalism and "witch hunting" mentality of some on the Internet. It's not a big surprise that the tendencies of the religious world in general would be represented on the Religious sites of the Internet.
I am looking so long and hard for some kind of conferencing software to utilize on my site. I deeply feel that the presence of dialogue is absolutely essential for the proper development of a theological site. The way we so intellectually post mounds of "position papers" on the Net seems only to reaffirm in the minds of many how terribly boring religious people can be. I have seen sites with these huge long treatises on what seem to be very "proprietary" theologies , with very few if any "links" in the documents since there is little to no communal consensus to "validate" these subjective approaches.
There is a great need for "experiential" theology; that which is "linked" insolubly to the lives of its adherents. I come to "believe" in a theology because of its effect on the life of its adherents. Theology which touches me does so because I see it's effects on human community. The WWW and hypertext provide the theological world to liberate theological writing from it's exile from experience and "point to" its life changing results and impacts.
I have been trying to illustrate this by casting my own experience in this mold. My Web site has a place where I provide a "definition of a Christian" by telling my own story. My "key theological positions" are linked to some key people and organizations that have influenced me. This linkage seems to give the theological "beliefs" some reason for being. When I hear someone's story, their "theology" is most convincing when I hear it in the context of their life experiences; in the trials and dark periods of their lives, as well as in the transforming and illuminated periods of their human journey.
The only theology I seek to "guard" and "protect" is that which gives proper value and legitimacy to the human journey. Some of these journeys (indeed, a majority of the human stories of the world's people) take place outside the cultural sphere of Christianity. Although I identify my own journey as a piece of the heritage of the Christian community, I also believe that the Spiritual realities which have been interpreted for me by a Christian theology are not limited to the particular set of cultural realities that have shaped that theology (or my own unique absorbing of that heritage).