In summary, it has to do with a Center for Church, Culture and Communication (similar to the Resource Center for Media, Religion and Culture site at the University of Colorado’s Center for Mass Media Research.) and includes such really “cool” and “with it” and “fun” stuff like blogging the big events and conferences.

JUst packing as much “fun” and perhaps fantasy into the idea as I can,  I imagine a wide array of wireless connection gadgetry,  like a WiFi router of some sort,  to be able to “hook up” to any existing “wired network”,  and extend that wired netweok into the WiFi world (and of course,  probably standard on most of these,  a wired port to “pass through” back to the original wired router,  to keep everything working.  Then of course,  a portable PC equipped with WiFi,  and a phone with whatever capabilities would be useful there as well.  Maybe one of those camera features.

The major function of all this is to be able to BLOG the conferences and events as I am traveling the country doing “Smart Mobs” type research in service of the Church,  seeking to explore what some of this newest Web and wireless technology means for us. 

There would ,  of course,  be a “blog” that would act as a portal for all of this research,  and part of the “Lab” work would be to have a team of geeks (myself included) working on some prototypes and betas of Church Website hosting and customization using such things as DotNetNuke,  like my Church Beta and my Ecunet Beta (and PHP Nuke and tother similar things.  Maybe there’s also a ColdFusion based framework based on the same idea as DotNetNuke.)  I also have a subdomain setup for a portal companion to a BlogCentral of some sort

Maybe this whole thing would be funded by grants from a variety of ecumenical organizations,  like Lilly and such.  I could add the interest and technical and academic support of a group like The U. of Colorado’s Resource Center for Media, Religion and Culture (where a fellow alum of the MARC program at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Lynn Schofield Clark ) is teamed up with Stewart Hoover to

The International Sacred Media Conference, July 10-13, 2003 – Jyväskylä, Finland. .  Maybe I could “Blog” that conference.  Next year, the Sacred Media Conference is at the University of Louisville.  That woudl be very feasible,  whatever it is I’m doing by then.