Brasher relates a story that I want to relate to all those who dount the “draw” that the web can be for face-to-face communities. It is a story about a webiste of “Christ in the Desert Monastery”, and is followed up by a story about a divorced man in his fifties, who happened upon the site, and ended up visting the monastery after becoming attracted to the “feel of the community” he received from the Website. (the story is related on pages 78-85 of Give Me That Online Religion (Amazon link))