christianity
Paper-Mediated Experiences
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009I have recently been grappling with a question:
Is it possible to have an authentic spiritual experience mediated by a computer?
Several of the papers I have been reading raise this issue, particularly with reference to online rituals. Aside from there being no sure way for social scientists to determine an authentic spiritual experience (only an […]
Church as a Web 2.0 Model
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008In the beginning there was a thought….
…and the thought was thus:
“Church is a community, not a physical place: the Internet is a community, not a physical place”
Within my local church community the vicars have been fighting a battle to change the way we use language when referring to church - emphasising the difference between “church” […]
Counting Prayers
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Spirituality might not sound like something that should really have a presence online. However, I find I have reason to speak of it as I blog from the 50th floor of the Millennium Hilton Hotel, New York on a glorious Sunday morning.
My mother and I have just returned from a service at St Paul’s […]
